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+ AMAT) er ee eee Batti WH. a 4 Li: EE Typed note. Colonel; First paragraph not necessarily true; person might have figured on choosing time when everyone was at one place on field, and even guards would be locking toward ship; also, fanatic would be apt to take pleasure in killing all in ship. Second paragraph very good. Search should certainly be made in aft of ship for some timing device. Perhaps you could suggest it to Board. b*® ng in pencil) Pretty good letter, hay? Attached is piece of paper written in pencil as follows; Send to Col. Hartney Special Delivery. — “of. mth Suggest that this be turned over to Vetterli. WY a> Envelope addressed to: Senator Royal S. Copeland, Senate Chamber, Postmarked: WN. Y. Ce - N.Y. Sta A 5-10-37 2 PM Letter as follows; The Disaster to the Hindenburg.- I do not believe - was caused here - For this reason. it would have been much safer to have fired an incendiary bullet - later in the night. because if the first one missed - they could repeat - until success - and it is reasonable to suppose thet the wrecking of the craft would be the only thing sought. If murder was sought - it would have been tried minutes before - as no one knew that the end would be so sudden. My theory is that, if it was not an accident, - it was planned before the ship left Germany that is, a time device was installed then, so timed that it would work after the ship was anchored - they figured on @ normal crossing which would have the ship anchored about three hours earliert - But as she was late (as I understand the schedule) it was (the Blast) in a sense, premature. COPIES DESTROYED 30 oCT 21 1964 Fe ee ae pt a cage ieee