Omaha to Seattle and Los Angeles re Billie Lee Mc Gill background and bank inquiries

NR 010 OM PLAIN 9:32 PM CST NITEL 4-12-72 IJS TO SEATTLE LOS ANGELES FROM OMAHA 149-179 4P

NORJAK.

RE BILLIE LEE MC GILL.

INVESTIGATION, DES MOINES, IOWA, REFLECTS MC GILL WAS WMPLOYED AT IOWA BOARD OF PHARMACY, DES MOINES, IOWA, FOR SEVERAL YEARS UP TO NINETEEN SEVENTY AT WHICH TIME HE WAS DISMISSED IN VIEW OF HIS ALCOHOLIC PROBLEM.

RECORDS, VA HOSPITAL, DES MOINES, IOWA REFLECT MC GILL BORN SEPTEMBER TWENTYFOUR, NINETEEN TWENTYEIGHT, HAS RECORD OF TREATMENT AT HOSPITAL INDICATING TREATMENT ON JUNE FIVE, NINETEEN SIXTYTHREE THROUGH JUNE SEVENTEEN, NINETEEN SIXTYTHREE FOR SEMINAL VESCULITIS. HE LISTED SSAN THREE SEVEN ONE DASH TWO FOUR DASH FOUR TWO NINE TWO AND U. S. ARMY SERIAL NUMBER FIVE FIVE ZERO FOUR SIX TWO EIGHT SEVEN, AND VA CLAIM NUMBER C ONE NINE DASH THREE THREE NINE DASH ONE NINE FOUR. HE WAS LAST TREATED AT VA ON MARCH NINETEEN LAST FOR PEDAL EDIMA, I. E. END PAGE ONE

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SEARCHED _____ INDEXED ___ SERIALIZED ___ FILED ___ APR 12 1972 FBI - SEATTLE

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PAGE TWO PAIN IN MIDDLE CALF, AND EXCESSIVE USE OF ALCOHOL. HE WAS RELEASED SAME DATE AND RECORDS DO NOT REFLECT BROKEN ANKLES. MC GILL CALLED HOSPITAL APRIL THREE LAST AND APPEARED AT HOSPITAL SAME DATE BUT LEFT HOSPITAL WITHOUT TREATMENT AND DID NOT RETURN. HOSPITAL RECORDS REFLECT HIS FATHER AS JOHN COSGRIFF, EIGHT HUNDRED NORTH HIDALGO, ALHAMBRA, CALIFORNIA. RECORDS, IOWA DES MOINES NATIONAL BANK (IDMNB) DES MOINES, IOWA, REFLECT MC GILL APPEARED AT BANK MARCH TWENTYEIGHT LAST AND PURCHASED THREE THOUSAND TWO HUNDRED FIFTYONE DOLLARS, SIXTY EIGHT CENTS CASHIERS CHECK WITH A THREE THOUSAND SIX HUNDRED FIFTYONE DOLLARS, SIXTYEIGHT CENTS CASHIERS CHECK DATED MARCH FOURTEEN LAST, NUMBER ZERO THREE TWO NINE DASH THREE EIGHT ONE TWO SEVEN, DRAWN ON THE LOS ANGELES INTERNATIONAL AIRPORT BRANCH OF THE BANK OF AMERICA NATIONAL TRUST AND SAVINGS ASSOCIATION (IABBANTSA), AND RECEIVED THE FOUR HUNDRED DOLLAR DIFFERENCE IN CASH. HE REAPPEARED AT IDMNB APRIL THREE LAST AND PURCHASED A THREE THOUSAND DOLLAR CASHIERS CHECK WITH ABOVE DESCRIBED THREE THOUSAND TWO HUNDRED FIFTYONE DOLLARS, SIXTYEIGHT CENTS CASHIERS END PAGE TWO

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PAGE THREE CHECK, RECEIVING TWO HUNDRED FIFTYONE DOLLARS, SIXTYEIGHT CENTS DIFFERENCE IN CASH. HE MADE NO STATEMENTS TO BANK EMPLOYEES AS TO PURPOSE OF CHECKS. BANK HAS NO RECORD OF PRESENT OR PAST SAVINGS OR CHECKING ACCOUNTS, OR SAFETY DEPOSIT BOXES IN MC GILL'S NAME.

ON APRIL TWELVE INSTANT [REDACTED] DES MOINES, IOWA ADVISED HE PREPARED WILL FOR MC GILL ON APRIL THREE LAST AND MC GILL PAID TWENTYDOLLARS FEE IN CASH. [REDACTED] REFUSED TO DISCUSS PROVISIONS OF WILL BUT DESCRIBED WILL AS QUOTE A TWENTY DOLLAR JOB UNQUOTE AND THAT MC GILL HAD VERY NOMINAL ASSETS. PERSONS INTERVIEWED AT DES MOINES, IOWA, ADVISED MC GILL HAS LEG TROUBLE BUT THEY ARE UNAWARE OF HIS HAVING BROKEN ANKLES. NO VERIFICATION AT DES MOINES OF BACKGROUND AS PARATROOPER BUT MC GILL SUPPOSEDLY PREVIOUSLY HAD PILOT'S LICENSE.

INVESTIGATION AT DES MOINES FAILS TO PLACE MC GILL IN DES MOINES PREVIOUS TO FIRST OF MARCH, LAST.

LOS ANGELES AT ALHAMBRA, CALIFORNIA. CONDUCT INVESTIGATION TO ESTABLIS MC GILL'S WHEREABOUTS ON NOVEMBER TWENTYFOUR NINETEEN SEVENTYONE, AND TO ESTABLISH WHETHER HE HAS A LARGE AMOUNT OF MONEY. END PAGE THREE

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AT LOS ANGELES INTERNATIONAL AIRPORT. WILL CONTACT REPRESENTATIVE OF LOS ANGELES IABBANTS AND ASCERTAIN MC GILL'S FORM OF PAYMENT FOR CASHIERS CHECK DESCRIBED PREVIOUSLY.

AT FOLLOWS ALONG WITH PHOTOGRAPHS OF MC GILL FOR LOS ANGELES, LAS VEGAS, AND SEATTLE DIVISIONS.

AIR MAIL COPY FURNISHED TO LAS [guess: VEGAS]. ARMED AND DANGEROUS. P. END

DCA FBI SE CLR

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