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TP 164-110

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inactive duty. Subsequently, he served for one year as the [REDACTED] at the Candle General Hospital, having been employed by the United Security Agency at Savannah, Georgia. He had also sold life insurance for a short period of time prior to entering employment with the Internal Revenue Service at Sarasota, Florida.

Specifically, on or about November 24, 1971 [REDACTED] had been serving on active duty in the capacity of [REDACTED] Fort Stewart, Georgia. He had served in this capacity from [REDACTED] [REDACTED] when he was released to inactive duty status. He recalled that on Thanksgiving Day, 1971 he had been at Fort Stewart, noting that he had not visited [REDACTED] [REDACTED] His presence at Fort Stewart could be proven by the various daily reports which he would have signed in his capacity as [REDACTED] [REDACTED] He estimated that he probably signed 90 percent of the required papers of this organization, the [REDACTED] Fort Stewart, inasmuch as the [REDACTED] is normally only a figurehead. He recalled that the various documents associated with the daily operation of the [REDACTED] were only maintained one year, and then they were placed in dead storage at an unknown location. Specifically, he had not been in the northwest section of the United States, including Portland, Oregon, or Seattle, Washington, on or about November 24, 1971.

[REDACTED] considered himself to be a skilled parachutist possessing [REDACTED] was a [REDACTED] and had made 55 parachute jumps, all in the military service. He had made his last parachute jump during [REDACTED] while on reserve status. From the early part of [REDACTED] until [REDACTED] he had been a member of the [REDACTED] [REDACTED] an active reserve group of the United States Army, which met either weekly or monthly at Fort Lawton, Washington. The group in Seattle consisted of approximately 16 members who were mostly older persons then in their late 30's or early 40's. The entire reserve group consisted of approximately 100 members from various cities on the West Coast. He has not flown too much over the Portland-Seattle area, noting that his last qualification jumps had been made in Georgia and Utah. The only time he has flown over Portland was approximately three times during [REDACTED] en route to and from training missions in the

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