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70-215 thet Joseph Spach appeared to him to be unsympathetic to airship travel and impressed him as being a peculiar type of passenger; also, that this person remained aloof from the other passengers and was not + ”~ Pe ot oe Yee _ &t sll, in his opinion, responsive to the explanation of the crew reé= garding the various technicalities of the airship itself. Commander hosendah] advised that the only informatjon he had on Joseph Spach - there at Lakehurst was to the effect that he was supposedly a United States citizen, using an American passport, and that he had been treat- ed at the Fitkin Memorial Eospital at Asbury Fark, New Jersey, immedi - ately after the accident. Special Agent Lee F. Kalone conducted an investigation rela- tiva to the cheracter of Joseph Spach, who resided at 240-16 Alameda Avenue, Douglaston, Long Islard, hew York. A&A neighborhood investiza- tion revealed that Spach was considered by all who knew him, to bear an excellent reputation. Numerous people have written to the Board of Inquiry of the Lepartment of Commerce, expressing their views as to the cause of the disaster to the Hindenburg. An examination of these letters reveals that 30% of them gave mechanical reacors for the destruction; £0! st- tributec the destruction to static ienitinge the hydrogen Bas; end fo. considered the cause c> the disaster to be sabotage. The ertire in- vestigation by the board of inquiry of the bepartment of Commerce, however, revealed no direct evidence that there was sabotage in connec- tion with the destruction of the ship, and the definite cause for its destruction was never really ascertained. - CLOSEL -