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wv _ Re: Colonel Charles augustus Lindbergh . : Pege SL ome id . - os ee . a ae ° ais ao ds recently a dock entities Lime Vave of the Toturet viieh cares T ae 7, WAKE ‘reference. to Lindbergh's financial stetos, it is to be noted | “that he roceived a» $25,000 prise following his Faris flight in 1927, and. that he receivad a $25,000 averd in connection with a subsequent flight se Mexico. His royzlties received fror "ke" were estireted to be far over . - $100,000 and bic royalties from "Zorth to the Orient" were prescoably Aigh . Since 290,000 co;ies of that bock were sold, It was reported that at the tine Lindbergh testified before a Serate Coraittee in Jasusry of 1934, be. stetec thet Trarscoatinental and Weetcra dir, Inc, hired him es their © teohnical advicer in 1928 at ar annusl salary of £10,000 and that in re- tura for the privilege of calling their line “Ino Lindbergh Iinc® he was pesié by thes #250,000 in cash with an invitation to invest it in their Btock, Ze eteted that he hat mate profits in dceling with the stock to ~. the anount of (200,000, He also testified thet acother connany at first -, furnished hic with eurrency to bry its stock from which he had profited ¢ " the extent of $156,000 and thet beth of the aforetentioned corpenies and. ap elrerinéed rallroed ‘hed placed hir on their pey rolls es oe techoical ‘adviser at £10,000 per year, With reference to his wife, it is to be noted . thet ber noval “Listen, the Wind,” rcalizec a lerge esle ant further her parents are corsicered wry wealthy, deing heirs to some-of the Vhitney fortune. 2 Bo information appears in the Brrem files regerdinz Lindbergh's present incore, end is not known wht invectrerts he holds. It was. re. ported that ke received £700 for each speech delivered for the Anerica . -- Faret Cocrittee and it is to be noted thet he is presently exployed by ~. «~~ o» Menry Tord az 2 "superviscr® et the “illow Eun plant, Ko nid hes deen . gnnounced in thet connection. (Life 4-3-39; Liberty zit) ; . ft On several occesions, Lincbergh’s nene has been lined with the Gugzenbeics, He was saic to breve written "Se" at the Harry Guggenbela @ountry hore in Long Ielend in 1927, and it was seid that the Ouczenbeia Public Relations man, Ivy Leo, vas Linébergh'c porsonr) adviser, Another _ Bare associated with Linddergh is the nore of Henry Breckinridgo vho has been Lindbergh's attorney and olose associate, It is to be noted that Preckinridge is the Chairman of the Boerd of Aviation Equipceat ant Zxrort, Inc. of Bew Yors City, sponsors of eircraft and circraft naterials. The. | .- President and frcasurer of that seme cospexy, Sazusi Miedelean, is ales... eaid tbe a frierd of Lindbergh, Anong bis friends and associstes are | 2 Colonel , idem x Sith, and Henry ‘Tord, censernine vhon teforua LSet ee TTT