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* os -'" The Washington Pield Division file No concern- _ ing Joseph Spach, (whose name is erronepusly spe th}, contains a letter dated May 21,°1957, from the.Special agent in Charge of the Newark Field Division, requesting that all available information be obtained at the Passport Division, State Department, concerning an application for passport, or other informtion relative to this pere son's recent trip to Germany, This letter mentions the fact that Joseph Spaeh had access to the aft portion of the airship to tend two dogs which he owned and shich were confined in the aft freight room; that inasmuch as Spaeh had access to the rear portion of the ship, some suspicion attached itself to him, as at various times he was in the stern of the ship wynaccompanieds This file contains a report made by Special agent Re P. Burruss, dated May 24, 1957, at Washington, D» Ce, indicating that the Passport Division, State Department, Internal Revenue Bureav, Treasury Department, and the Immigration and Naturalization Service, Department of Labor, have no record relative to Joseph Spseh. In view of the fact thet Mr. Trimble advised agent thet he has not as yet been informed of any developments in this matter and further that no subsequent information concerning this angle of the case is reflected in the Washington Field Division file, or in the Bureau file, this matter is called to the attention of the Office of Origin, without setting out an undeveloped lead concerning it. Section 4, marked "Letters Left by Colonel Breithaupt of the German Mission", oonsiste of letters written originally in Gere man and translated into English. Mr. Trimble informed Agent that Colonel Breithaupt was a member of the German Commission sent over by the German government to work in cooperation with the Investiga~ tion Board of the Department of Commerce; that the originals of these letters had been turned over to Mr. Trimble by Colonel Frederick Yon Boetticher, Military attache of the German Bubassy here. agent carefully hoted the contents of the letters, 12 in number, the writers of practically all of them holding "Jews or Nazi plotters" responsible for the destruction of the Hindenburg, without, however, furnishing any information whatsoever which would warrant an investi- gatione This opinion was fully shared by Mr. Trimble and Mr. Dennis Mulligan, Chief ef Enforcement Division, Bureau of Air Commerce, with whom Agent conferred relative to this matter. Sections5 and 6, marked “Correspondence (Miscellenecus) = Group 3", contain numerous letters from all parts of the country, fur- nishing opinions as to the possible causes of the disaster and offer- ing suggestions for the improvement of future air travel, ot cetera, The writers of a number of these letters claimed they observed some mechanical defects on the ship while flying over 3oston, New York and Newark, basing their opinions on the "I told you so” theory. Others - 5B = od