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"He [Cooper] was nothing but a com- mon criminal. He terrorized people, threatened their lives, threatened to blow up a plane. I don't like to see some- one like that celebrated."

But someone who has attended Ariel's annual D. B. Cooper Day sees the sky- jacker differently: "This wasn't just a simple rip-off. We're not honoring an antihero because he got away with a crime. We do it because we all think of our own reasons why we would have done the same thing."

Undoubtedly, Himmelsbach wouldn't care to see the skyjacker glorified in a movie either. But that's exactly what famed director John Frankenheimer (Seven Days in May, Black Sunday, The Birdman of Alcatraz and The Manchurian Candidate) is doing for PolyGram Pic- tures, which owns the film rights to J. D. Reed's novel Free Fall. In this fast- paced yarn—retitled Pursuit for the screen—a character similar to D. B. Cooper survives his plunge from an air- liner. Then he's pursued across most of the country by a determined federal agent. Yes, the skyjacker gets away.

"D. B. Cooper pulled off a stunt that everyone would love to pull off," says Frankenheimer, describing what at- tracted him to the story. "It's the old Robin Hood guy screwing the Establish- ment. The Cooper character [played by

actor Treat Williams] will be portrayed as an obsessed human being who be- comes a folk hero... much like Bonnie and Clyde." The film will be released next year.

Says author Reed, who spent more than two years researching the Cooper/ Coffelt story and another year writing his fictionalized version of the facts: "Sometimes I think Coffelt didn't do it. But then some mornings I wake up, and I'm sure he was D. B. Cooper.

"Whichever is true, the motivation is what makes this case so interesting. Here's a guy who held a plane for no political or personally disturbed reason. He did it straight-out for money. His was the ultimate victimless crime. After the whole thing was over and the FBI interviewed Tina Muchlow Larsen, the stewardess came to the conclusion that D. B. Cooper actually was carrying railroad flares in his briefcase. The guy didn't even have a real bomb. He never intended to hurt anybody."

Reed has his own favorite theory about the enduring D. B. Cooper legend. "There have since been a num- ber of skyjackings bearing a resem- blance to the D. B. Cooper job," he says. "I'd like to think the guy is still alive and ripping off the Establishment. They don't hardly make them like him anymore."

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tions found that an attacker could quickly infect millions of people up to 20 miles away. To this day the Army denies it was responsible for an extreme- ly rare outbreak of Serratia marcescens- linked pneumonia that hospitalized 11 individuals and killed one patient.

Nor did the Army limit its testing to the common man. On March 15, 1962, Chemical and Biological Warfare re- searchers carried out a simulated assasi- nation of President John F. Kennedy by planting vapor-emitting items in the tourist sections of the White House. These vapors were then carried into the air-conditioning system, past guards and into the Oval Office. And the CIA has since admitted plotting the germ- weapon assassination of Cuban dictator Fidel Castro, but these plans were not carried out.

Then there were the two members of a neo-Nazi organization called RISE ar- rested by Chicago police in 1972. One, who worked in a local hospital, had aroused suspicion by his preoccupation with gaining access to deadly disease specimens. When caught, he was found to have brewed up "a quantity"—about 80 pounds—of typhoid bacteria. RISE

members, according to Cook County State's Attorney Edward V. Hanrahan, had planned to inoculate themselves, then to inject the lethal germs into the water supplies of Chicago and other Midwestern cities. When the expected epidemic killed the present population off, the RISE madmen believed, they would repopulate the land with a "mas- ter race" bred from their own superior seed.

The commissioner of the Chicago Water and Sewers Department assured citizens that chlorine in their drinking water would have killed the typhoid germs. We can hope this is true, but such protective chemicals would not necessarily have killed germs (such as those that cause anthrax) created by the Army's CBW program.

Using germs supplied by or stolen or purchased from research-supply houses, terrorists with the basic skills of a biology sophomore could cook up batches of botulism germs able to kill millions of people. "It scares the shit out of me," said one Pentagon specialist. "Hell, a crazy could stir up enough germs in his bathtub to wipe out New York City! And it doesn't require any special skill or any secrets...just a twisted mind."

But terrorists armed with more-

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