Cincinnati to Director and Seattle re suspect Robert Arthur Chick

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Cincinnati to Director and Seattle re NORJAK suspect

Document date 1 December 1971

Part 100pages 3–42 pagesDB Cooper-44913

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FBI 164-81, Vault Part 100 pp. 3–4 (DB Cooper-44913), Teletype, dated 1 Dec 1971, serial SE 164-81-4425 (as read from the transcript) — cooper.theunsolved.net/documents/Cooper-Part-100%3A003-004

NR 014 CI PLAIN UR1041 PM GENT 12-1-71 FLZ TO: DIRECTOR (164-2111) SEATTLE FROM CINCINNATI (164-55)

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UNSUB; NORTHWEST AIRLINES FLIGHT THREE ZERO FIVE, ELEVEN TWENTYFOUR SEVENTYONE, CAA - HIGHJACKING, EXTORTION. OO: SEATTLE.

RE SUSPECT ROBERT ARTHUR CHICK.

RE LS TEL TO SEATTLE AND CINCINNATI ELEVEN THIRTY LAST.

ON TWELVE ONE INSTANT, DAVE SMITH, OWNER, DAVE SMITH FORD COMPANY, PATASKALA, OHIO, ADVISED ROBERT ARTHUR CHICK, AKA., DAN CHICK, CURRENTLY EMPLOYED HIS COMPANY AS MANAGER OF USED CAR LOT. CHICK BEGAN EMPLOYMENT OCTOBER NINETEEN SEVENTY.

CHICK DESCRIBED WMA, DOB NINE FOURTEEN TWENTYTWO, FRANKLIN COUNTY OHIO, SOCIAL SECURITY NUMBER TWO NINE NINE - ONE ZERO - NINE FOUR ZERO EIGHT. SMITH ADVISED HIS RECORDS SHOW CHICK WORKED FROM EIGHT THIRTY AM TO NINE PM ELEVEN TWENTY THREE AND TWENTY FOUR LAST.

CHICK INTERVIEWED INSTANT DATE ADVISED HAD NO INFORMATION AND UNABLE TO FURNISH ANY SUSPECTS RE HIGHJACKING.

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Sub 51 164-81-4425 SEARCHED______INDEXED______ SERIALIZED MM FILED MM DEC 4 1971 FBI - SEATTLE [initials/signature illegible]

DB COOPER-44913

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PAGE TWO CI 164-55

RE SUSPECT [REDACTED]

RE CITEL NOVEMBER TWENTY NINE LAST AND ALBUQUERQUE TEL NOVEMBER THIRTY LAST.

[REDACTED] MADE AVAILABLE [REDACTED] PHOTOGRAPH OF [REDACTED] [REDACTED]. PHOTOGRAPH FURNISHED TODAY TO SEATTLE BY TELECOPIER. GLOSSY REPRODUCTIONS BEING SENT SEATTLE AMSD.

AM COPIES SENT LOUISVILLE, OMAHA, ST. LOUIS, ALBUQUERQUE, SAN FRANCISCO, OKLAHOMA CITY.

END HOLD DCA FBI SE

Serials: 164-2111, CI 164-55, SE 164-81-4425