FBI INTERVIEWS SALINGER, REJECTS TWA-MISSILE LINK.Byline: Dan Berry The New York New York, state, United States New York, Middle Atlantic state of the United States. It is bordered by Vermont, Massachusetts, Connecticut, and the Atlantic Ocean (E), New Jersey and Pennsylvania (S), Lakes Erie and Ontario and the Canadian province of Times Officials of the Federal Bureau of Investigation Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), division of the U.S. Dept. of Justice charged with investigating all violations of federal laws except those assigned to some other federal agency. , while saying they were certain that Pierre Salinger had no evidence to support his allegation last week that a U.S. Navy missile brought down Trans World Airlines Trans World Airlines, commonly known as TWA, was a major American airline company that was acquired by American Airlines in April 2001. For many years it was headquartered at the Kansas City Downtown Airport, as well as midtown Manhattan in New York City. Flight 800, nevertheless wanted to talk to the former journalist and Kennedy administration spokesman. On Saturday, FBI agents got that chance. And, according to law enforcement officials, the questioning of Salinger only bolstered their conviction that his information was wrong and his sources not credible. The most inflammatory allegation made by Salinger, during a speech to an airline industry group gathered in Cannes, France, was that he had a previously secret document confirming that ``friendly fire'' from a Navy ship had brought the Boeing 747 down off the coast of Long Island in July and killed 230 people. But James Kallstrom, the FBI supervisor overseeing the investigation, said Saturday that he had spoken with Salinger by telephone for 15 minutes, and had concluded that the document was the same one that had been determined to contain baseless allegations when it first surfaced on the Internet months ago. ``We ascertained today that the document that he has in his possession has been on the Internet since late August,'' Kallstrom said Saturday. But the questioning by Kallstrom and other federal agents did not dissuade Salinger from expanding Saturday on his allegations. During an interview on CNN CNN or Cable News Network Subsidiary company of Turner Broadcasting Systems. It was created by Ted Turner in 1980 to present 24-hour live news broadcasts, using satellites to transmit reports from news bureaus around the world. , Salinger dismissed government attacks on his theory, and said that the pilot of an Air France airliner that took off five minutes after the TWA TWA Time-weighted average, see there flight was warned that missiles had been fired in the area. As a result, Salinger said, the Air France jet ``wildly turned to the right'' a few minutes after takeoff from Kennedy International Airport Noun 1. Kennedy International Airport - a large airport on Long Island to the east of New York City Kennedy Interrnational, Kennedy Long Island - an island in southeastern New York; Brooklyn and Queens are on its western end . He said that the pilot told a passenger: ``We can't go over that region. They're sending missiles up there. It's very dangerous.'' Salinger, who said he heard this account from the passenger, urged investigators to locate and interview the Air France pilot. But law enforcement agents said they could not corroborate To support or enhance the believability of a fact or assertion by the presentation of additional information that confirms the truthfulness of the item. The testimony of a witness is corroborated if subsequent evidence, such as a coroner's report or the testimony of other the account. |
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