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ROBERT EDWARD CHAMBLISS ROBERT EDWARD CHAMBLISS, 205 32nd Avenue, North, Birmingham, Alabama, (phone 323-5140); age 59 years; born January 14, 1904, Pratt City,. Birmingham, Alabama; employed as truck driver by Rebuilt Auto Parts Company, 919 outh, Birmingham, Alabama, (Phone 322- 3579). CHAMBLISS is considered a logical suspect, based upon his past activities and associations; his extreme anti- integration views; his acts of physical violence against : Negroes; and his free use of dynamite in terrorizing tactics, which has earned for him the nickname of “Dynamite Bob", Formerly employed by the City in the Garbage Department, CHAMBLISS was discharged because of unfavorable publicity, Prought about by the brutality of his acts, * CHAMBLISS has been active in Ku Klux Klan acti- vities, since at least 1946, was Exalted Cyclops of the Klavern until 1951, when he abardoned open Ku Klux Klan activities because of unfavorable publicity. CHAMBLISS ‘has been interviewed at length oy FBI Agents on September 28, 1963, and October li, 1963, at which . time he denied participation or knowledge of the present ' bombings. He has been the subject of numerous survelillances during which time it was established that he has been in contact with known members of the Ku Klux Klan and with. well known pro-segregationist leaders of the Birmingham area. From interview, CHAMBLISS has admitted association with these people and has identified himself as being a strong segregationist, home or in the immediate vicinit 1 It has been established that CHAMBLISS was at oe on the morning of Sqtember 15, | ; : ; | |