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ee = AL BUREAU OF INVESTIGATION }. DEPARTMENT OF IUSTICE GOMMUNIGATIONS SECTION AUG 6 1947 «li FBI SEATTLE 8-6-47 Toyo rreer st DIRECTOR FBI URGENT Ciiyine_biscs, Se Me - Xe RETEL PORTLAND TO DIRECTOR , SAN F Ancysco, AND SEATTLE AUGUST FIVE LAST. INTELLIGENCE OFFICERS MCCORD FIELD, WN.e, ADVISE THAT IN THEIR @@OMM OPINION AND FROM THEIR INVESTIGATION THERE IS NO QUESTION OF THE CRASH OF THE B= TWENTYFIVE AT KELSO, WN. BRM APPROXIMATELY TWO FIFTY Ae Me ,» AUGUST ONE LAST HAVING BEEN CAUSED BY ANY SABOTAGE. THEY STATE THEIR INVESTIGATION INDICATES THE LEFT ENGINE BURNED OUT AN EXHAUST STACK WHICH CAUSED THE WING TO BURN AND BREAK OFF. THE LEFT WING AS IT SMM BROKE OFF TORE OFF THE TAIL AND THE PLANE CRASHED INTO THE GROUND KILLING CAPT. DAVIDSON AND LT. BROWN INTELLIGENCE OFFICERS OF THE FOURTH AIR FORCE WHO WERE RETURNING FROM MCCORD FIELD, WN., TO HAMILTON FIELD, CALIFBORNIA. THE CREW CHIEF AND A HITCHHIKER PARACHUTED TO SAFETY FROM THE PLANE. ONLY FOUR MEMBERS WERE ABOARD THE PLANE, DAVIDSON AND BROWN BEING PILOT AND CO- PILOT AND HAD NO CHANCE TO ESCAPE WHEN THE WING BROKE OFF. LT. COL. DONALD RECORD HAMILTON FIELD, CALIFORNIA, ADVISE FER ithe onslodsp AND WERE SENT FROM HAMILTON FIELD TO INTERVIEW HAROLD! A DAHL AND FRED *GRISMAN AT TACOMA, WNe, REGARDING THEIR REPORT OF SEEBING SOME FLYING L. SPRINGER, A- TWO ARRRSERISX sae mA THE FOURTH ad FOR , DISCS OVER MAURY ISLAND, WN., AND THAT THEY INED SOME OF THE DISC — S5 FRAGMENTS. CRISMAN AND DAHL ARE PARTNERS “IN A LUMBBER BUSINERS® AT LU} 2 COPIES DESTROYED TACOMA, WAHINGTON. 270 Nov 19/1964