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30 JulY, APPEARED LNFALL 2 OCT 72 To OBTAIN US PASSPORTS
FoR HIS TwO CHILDREN AND FOR THE CHILD 0F GEORGE EDW ARD
W R I G H T (DPOB 3/29/43, HAL IFaX countY, Va ,) and
JOYCE T I L L € R * 0 N (DPOB 6/ 6/5 1 , SPARTANBURG , S.C.),
D UR ING CONVERSATIONS WITH FLANIX, MCNA IR MADE FOLL OWING
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WANTED To WORK WITH CLEAVERS . PETER 0'
N % A L (201-856553) ,
FOR EXAMPLE, RECENTL Y LEFT THE COUNTRY And DONALD c 0 X
(201-851941) CLA ImS THAT HE Wants To MINIMIZE FURTHER ASSO
CIA TION WITH CLEAVER SINCE CL EAVER HA S SUCCEEDED In 0 ONL Y
O IRRITATING THE ALGERIANS. (MCNAIR HAS nOt SEEN cox FOR
ABOUT Two WEEKS,)
30 MCNAIR HOL DER And OTHER HIJACKERS LIVE AT THE BP
POINTE PESCADE VILLA AND RAREL Y SEE CLEAVER WhO IS LIVING
In HIS VILLA In EL BIAR . MCNA IR SAID ALGERIANS KEEP A
"CL OSE EYE" ON CLEAVER And HIS WIFE, ALSO now In ALG IERS.
4 THE HIJACKERS HAVE BEEN ISSUED No DOCUMENTA TION BY
THE ALGERIANS, THERE ARE No RESTRICTIonS on TKEIR MOVEMENTS
EXCEPT THEY HAVE BEEN ADVISED NOT To TRAVEL OUTSIDE THE
PROV INCE OF ALG IERS.
5 , MCNAIR SAID HE HAD nOT REALL Y BEL IEVED THAT THE
ALGERIA NS WOUL D RETURN To, THE US THE ONE MILL Ion DOLL ARS
INvOL VED In THE DELTA HIJACKING HE SA ID HE WAs AWARE BEFORE
THE HIJACKING Was PLANNED THAT THERE WERE REPORTS THAI TKE
s00 THOUSAND DCLLARS FROM THE WESTERN AIRL INES HIJACKING HAD
BEEN RETURNED, BUT HE DID nOT BEL IEVE THE REPORT SINCE HE
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AL SO AWARE TKAT THE KIJACKERS In THAT CASE WERE FREE In
ALGIERSe ALso, MCNA IR REASONED ThAT SUCH A LARGE SUM woUD
OVERRIDE ALGERIAN POLITICAL CONSIDERA TIonS In TKEIR DECI SION
On THE MONEY' DISPOSAL
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6 TKE RECENT RA ID On THE BPP HEADQUARTERS BY ALGERIAN
AUTHORITIES WAS TRIGGERED BY CLEAVER' $ OPEN LETTER To PRESI-
DENT B 0 U M E D I E N E DEMANDING RETURN OF THE HIJACK
MONEY . CLEAVER' S LETTER Was WRITTEN WITHOUT THE APPROVAL
OF THE REST 0F THE BPP MEMBERS In ALGERIA ANd CA USED A
MAJ OR SPL IT In TKE PARTY,
MCNAIR APPEARED At EASE In FLANIK' S OFFICE And
QUITE TALKATIVE, AL ThOuGH MuCH OF THE CONVERSATION CENTERED
ON HIS TRIP To ALG IERS . HE APPARENTL Y SURPRI SED To FIND
ALGERIA Such An ADvaNCED COUNTRY, HE HAS No DOCUMENTATION
EXCEPT An AMERICAN DRIVER' S LICENSE AnD WHEN ASIED IF HE
WISHED To APPL Y FOR A US PPT , HE REPL IED ThAT ~WE HAVE No
HERE TO G0, So I GUESS NOT , MCNAIR EXPECTED To RETURN
LNFALL NEXT FEW DAYS To SEE WHAT PROGRESS FLANIK HaS MADE ON
PPT APPL ICATIOnS,
8, SIGNIFICANT ASPECTS OF ABOVE INTERVIEW BEING SENT
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