Leslie Norman Bradley

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The declassified CIA files relating to the assassination of President Kennedy include the following memorandum to file, dated 29 December 1967:

"SUBJECT: Leslie Norman Bradley
1. subject was employed as a co-pilot by ZRCLIFF [a CIA cryptonym for Southern Air Transport] 4 April 1966 and was terminated (fired) on 12 September 1967.
... SIGNED Alan M. Warfield
Special Assistant to the Deputy Director for Support".

My question for this forum: does anyone know how Bradley's career unfolded after 1967?
 
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With thanks to Pat Boland: here's CIA pilot/gunrunner/Cuban prisoner Leslie Norman Bradley aged about 17 (in ~1945), (c) Minneapolis Star-Tribune, and AI-aged about 43 (in 1971). Anyone have a real photo of him aged around mid-40s?Leslie Norman Bradley with hair aged 17 & 47.png
 
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dfs346 said:
The declassified CIA files relating to the assassination of President Kennedy include the following memorandum to file, dated 29 December 1967:

"SUBJECT: Leslie Norman Bradley
1. subject was employed as a co-pilot by ZRCLIFF [a CIA cryptonym for Southern Air Transport] 4 April 1966 and was terminated (fired) on 12 September 1967.
... SIGNED Alan M. Warfield
Special Assistant to the Deputy Director for Support".

My question for this forum: does anyone know how Bradley's career unfolded after 1967?
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Any new info on this guy?
 
My colleagues on the D.B. Cooper Investigators Group are looking into Bradley as a candidate for the hijacker of Flight 305. He was a colorful character who matched the following attributes of the hijacker;
  • white American male, aged 43 in 1971, apparently dark haired
  • bland, expressionless face, eyes set wide, possibly protruding lower lip?
  • born in Minnesota: implying no detectable accent (to other Americans)? would recall Minnesota as "nice country"?
  • no siblings, no relationship with parents: implying no-one would miss him
  • US Army Air Corps experience; implying familiarity with military parachutes?
  • pilot, flight instructor: implying familiarity with airplane configurations
  • acquainted with air traffic controllers (viz. New Orleans ARTCC): implying knowledge of airways, ATC rules?
  • worked as pilot for Southern Air Transport: knew about Takhli missions?
  • gun-runner, mercenary, turncoat: implying criminal bent
  • little formal education, worked as "farm hand": fitting impressions of ticket agent and junior stewardess ("laboring type man")?
  • intelligent, articulate: fitting several witness descriptions?
  • angry about imprisonment in Cuba: implying grudge?
  • interested in get-rich-quick schemes
  • familiar with flying from USA to Mexico, Cuba, Nicaragua, Panama.
What is missing in their knowledge is his height; whether he had any actual jump experience; and whether anything can be said about his wher
 
Here's a composite of Leslie Norman Bradley (from Minneapolis Star-Tribune) with hair from the FBI's "Sketch A".

Leslie Norman Bradley 17 with hair 03.png
 
Here's Leslie Norman Bradley aged about 17 (later to be CIA pilot / gun-runner / prisoner in Cuba / suspect in Jim Garrison's JFK investigation), and three composites imagined at age about 43 (in 1971), with hair as reported by witnesses to the hijack of Northwest Flight 305 on 11.24.1971: from FBI's Sketch A, FBI's Sketch B, and Malin Coleman's sketch for Unsolved Mysteries.
Leslie Norman Bradley aged 17 & 43 A,B,C.jpgLeslie Norman Bradley aged 17 & 43 A,B,C.jpg
 
Here's Leslie Norman Bradley:
* aged 34 in 1963, probably shortly after release from Cuban prison (previously gun-runner to Central America in 1959-60, and prisoner in Cuba in 1960-63; later to be Southern Air Transport/CIA pilot in 1966-67, and suspect in Jim Garrison's JFK investigation in 1967);
* and three composites imagined at age about 43 (in 1971), with hair as reported by witnesses to the hijack of Northwest Flight 305 on 11.24.1971: from FBI's Sketch A, FBI's Sketch B, and Malin Coleman's sketch for Unsolved Mysteries.

Leslie Norman Bradley aged 35 & 43 A,B,C.png
 
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