Louisville to Cincinnati and Seattle re hijacking suspect description

Document date 30 November 1971

Part 100pages 5–62 pagesDB Cooper-44915, DB Cooper-44917

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Document: Teletype Louisville to Cincinnati and Seattle re hijacking suspect description
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FBI 164-81, Vault Part 100 pp. 5–6 (DB Cooper-44915, DB Cooper-44917), Teletype, dated 30 Nov 1971, serial SE 164-81-304 (as read from the transcript) — cooper.theunsolved.net/documents/Cooper-Part-100%3A005-006

NR004 LS PLAIN 4:34PM URGENT 11/30/71 LJF TO CINCINNATI SEATTLE FROM LOUISVILLE (164-71) 3P

UNSUB; NORTHWEST AIRLINES FLIGHT THREE ZERO FIVE, NOVEMBER TWENTYFOUR, LAST; CAA - HIJACKING; EXTORTION. OO: SEATTLE.

RE MEMPHIS NITEL TO LOUISVILLE AND SEATTLE NOVEMBER TWENTYNINE, LAST. FOR INFORMATION OF CINCINNATI, ON NOVEMBER TWENTYNINE, LAST, [REDACTED], KENTUCKY, TELEPHONICALLY SUGGESTED TO THE NASHVILLE, TENNESSEE RA AS A SUSPECT IN CAPTIONED MATTER A FORMER INMATE AT THE KSP (FNU) CHICK WHOM HE SAID HAD AN AVIATION AND PARACHUTING BACKGROUND. THIS INDIVIDUAL WAS IDENTIFIED TODAY FROM PRISON FILES AS ROBERT ARTHUR--CHICK, FBI NO. TWO ZERO SIX TWO NINE NINE TWO. THIS INDIVIDUAL WAS RELEASED FROM THE KSP MAY ONE, SIXTYSEVEN, AFTER SERVING FIVE ON CHECK CHARGES. END PAGE ONE

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Sub. 51 164-81-304 SEARCHED......INDEXED...... SERIALIZED......FILED...... NOV 30 1971 FBI - SEATTLE [signature/initials]

DB COOPER-44915

LS 164-71 PAGE THREE

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INCHES, ONE SIXTYFIVE LBS, MEDIUM BUILD, BLACK HAIR, HAZEL EYES, FAIR COMPLEXION, HEAVY BEARD, AND NOSE IS FLATTENED AND CROOKED, EDUCATION NINE YEARS, SSAN TWO NINE NINE - TEN - NINE FOUR ZERO EIGHT. HIS LAST KNOWN ADDRESS AS OF OCTOBER, SIXTYEIGHT, WAS THE GEORGETOWN OF COLUMBUS APT. COMPLEX, SEVENTYEIGHT FITZHENRY STREET, COLUMBUS, WHERE HE WAS EMPLOYED AS A MAINTENANCE MAN.

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PAROLE PHOTOS ARE BEING SENT DIRECTLY TO SEATTLE FROM THE HOPKINSVILLE RA.

CINCINNATI IMMEDIATELY APPEMPT TO LOCATE SUSPECT AND ES- TABLISH HIS WHEREABOUTS ON NOVEMBER TWENFR, LAST.

ARMED AND DANGEROUS. - P - END.

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PLS CORRECT LAST PAGE 2ND TO LAST LINE NOVEMBER :.... GA

TABLISH HIS WHEREABOUTS ON NOVEMBER TWENTYFOUR, LAST. $8$ DID YOUU GET THAT? GA TU VAB FBI SEATTLE CLR

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DB COOPER-44917

Serials: LS 164-71, SE 164-81-304