European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - September 30, 1986, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Was Amelia Earhart on a spy Mission fill Philol Luj 11 Amelia Earhart a starch be tevet her plane was shot Dawn in the Pacific by the japanese in 1937.  United press International re searcher in Houston says tie has found a tailored bin Lold an Island grave and an Oye Wilness that prove tamed aviator Amelia Earhart was shot Down in the Paciuc in 1937 and executed by Iho japanese seven years later As a spy. T c buddy Brennan. A real estate agent who said he Hegan investigating the Case out of sheer curiosity said government Docu Neils and Olber evidence indicate Eairl was on a spy Mission sanctioned by president Franham Roosevelt when she disappeared. Roosevelt a close Friend of Earhart secretly arranged Lor her to Lake a Loule on her highly publicized 1937 Ivo ild flight that Mould allow her to deviate Slighly to Check the Marshall islands in the Pasalic. Brennan said Roosevelt wanted to know it Iho japanese were illegally building Aii Fields and naval bases on the islands Brennan Lold reporters As he displayed the Blindfold videotapes of japanese residents and previously classified government documents. Brennan said his evidence shows Earhart and her navigator Fred Moonan were Shol Down by a japanese Pilot in 1937 and imprisoned for seven years on the Island of Saipan until they were kilted separately about one month Belore . Troops invaded. I think she and Fred Moonan were the first casualties of world War ii. I Don l 1hir,k there s any question about  he said. Although similar theories have been raised Brennan said he is the lust to find a witness to Earhart s execution. He has a videotape of navies Cabrera Bias an elderly japanese woman who lived on Saipan during the War. Who says she saw Earhart shot twice. Bias led Brennan to the grave site where he dug up the cloth. Amelia was put Belore a pre dug grave. They ripped the Blindfold oif her and threw it in the grave. They shot her twice and she fell in this pre dug grave Brennan said. That s a Khaki japanese Blindfold he said displaying the cloth. They cannot Date this because it s nol old  Brennan said to did not recover anything else from the grave because he had limited time to dig. He said the soil s High Lime contend would have destroyed Bones in five or six years. In his quest to solve the Earhart mystery Brennan obtained about 2,000 pages of previously classified government documents through the Freedom of info radon a 18 monies ago most Are letters Between Earhart her husband George Palmer Putnam. And government and army officials outlining arrangements for the flight indicating close collaboration among them. His other evidence includes videotapes of Marshall islands residents who say they saw Earhart in a prison on Saipan or heard stories from japanese military officers Hal a female american Pilot had been captured. Amelia Earhart was on a spy Mission to determine whal was happening to the mandated islands in the Marshall islands he said the islands were governed by the japanese and the United slates under a league of nations mandate after world War i but the United Stales was not permitted on the islands before world War ii Brennan said he has no Prool Roosevelt asked Earhart to spy but believes evidence to Hal effect is contained in a secret government file. Those of us who have done some searching just feel absolutely thai there is still a tile withheld Brennan said the government searched the Pacific for 10 Days for Earhart at a cos of $250,000 daily Brennan said adding such an extensive search supports his theory thai she was working for the government. Brennan said he believes Earhart was Shol Down Over the Island of Mili. The japanese then took her Noonan and the plane to a ship called Fukun Maru and later to Saipan where Earhart and Noonan were imprisoned in different cells. Her plane was doused with gasoline and burned on  Brennan said he was told. He said Noonan was beheaded Snory before Earhart was killed. Today s crossword by Eugene Sheffer across 38 Dull 1 Street fun Isle Urchin 40 speaker1 5 scrutinize platform 0 Salmi 42 i eff Norfi. New vim 43 new i2e&ptiiui second Cotlon  13 Lump 48 fun War 1 4 Swiss River borland149ocra.ilon 2 Nairn needed of cars 17 anger 18 do it 3 parisian pal 4 vote 6 pit r r pique 6 spool Tor thre iut 7 summer drink to it precedes b cuddles plasm or 9 follows sphere is " my children 19 store so enervated 21 kind or =3 it Urtilla Macaroni Broadway 24 designer Down Coss no 1 Likely 25 fur skin 26 fit tar Utji a. Noli Ulon time 27 Man it Akui fully 30 Onee Blue Mckin 31 Type tit tapestry 32 examine Judy Lajoly 33 Happy flour be rage 36 Une due 20 of Ulf age abbr. 21 heroic poem 22  Jay 23 certain jeer 24 . Office shape 26 Strong Low cart 27 Mouth comb form 930 Hubert Evdur som in airs do ? we is Hefte t Fues when Chol tons pick Axi of with great Pear Cip