Part 64, page 333

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SAC, LOS ANGELES (164-497) 11/30/71

SA [REDACTED]

UNSUB; HIJACKING OF NORTHWEST ORIENT AIRLINES FLIGHT NUMBER 305 PORTLAND TO SEATTLE 11/24/71 CAA - HIJACK

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On 11/30/71, SA [REDACTED] Santa Ana Resident Agency, telephonically advised the writer as follows:

[REDACTED] Skydiver Magazine, who resides at [REDACTED] California, telephone [REDACTED] telephonically advised that artists' conception of hijacker in local newspaper possibly identical to an unknown white male who on three or four occasions jumped at the jump center at Elsinore, California. [REDACTED] recalls this indivi[dual] as having last been at Elsinore about three and one half months ago and having engaged him in a discussion concerning jumping from commercial aircraft. He added that questions asked by this man were, in his opinion, precisely those which a person contemplating a crime of this nature would ask.

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[REDACTED] stated that during the course of the questioning he also asked what type of commercial plane could be jumped from, at what altitude, and at what speed. During this con- versation on the last time he had seen this man, he had also asked questions about jump centers in the Seattle and Portland areas.

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He noted that anyone jumping at Elsinore must be a member of the U.S. Parachute Association and must be licensed to jump. All jumpers at Elsinore must register prior to jumping with [REDACTED] well known at the jump center in Elsinore. He added that all records of the approximately 10,000 members of the U.S. Parachute Association are maintained at Cannery Row, Monterey, California, and files of this association contain both photographs and fingerprints of licensees.

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crs/[illegible] (3)

DEC 2 1971

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