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FD-302 (REV. 11-27-70)

FEDERAL BUREAU OF INVESTIGATION

5/3/72 Date of transcription___________

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[REDACTED] was contacted at his office in the Medical Dental Building, [REDACTED] Bremerton, Washington, at which time his client [REDACTED] was present. [REDACTED] stated that upon his advice, his client will not submit to a polygraph test, and that he will not make any further statement prior to his receiving a copy of the statement that [REDACTED] previously furnished the FBI.

[REDACTED] then stated that he was being inter- viewed by FBI agents at the same time that [REDACTED] was being interviewed on the afternoon of April 27, 1972. He further stated that he has seen the FBI on the television program where three or four FBI agents interviewed a suspect and bombarded him with questions. He stated, "I know that this present investigation is a witch hunt and I know that [REDACTED] is not the hijacker."

At this point the interview was about to be terminated when [REDACTED] requested that his wife, who is employed as a [REDACTED] with the United States Navy at the Bremerton Ship Yard, from whom he has been separated for the past two years, not be contacted or investigated in connection with this case. [REDACTED] volunteered that although [REDACTED] that [REDACTED] at the [REDACTED] in Bremerton, Washington. [REDACTED] inferred that there was some sort of stepchild problem concerning his present wife and family.

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Interviewed on 4/28/72 at Bremerton, Washington File # SE 164-81

by SA [REDACTED] SA [REDACTED] CSS/rlg Date dictated 5/3/72

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