Part 53, page 66
DB Cooper-22404Serials SE 164-81
Document date 28 April 1972
FBI 164-81, Vault Part 53 p. 66 (DB Cooper-22404), News clipping, dated 28 Apr 1972 — cooper.theunsolved.net/parts/Cooper-Part-53/pages/66
Transcript
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FD-350 (Rev. 7-16-63)
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2 - Bremerton Men Queried in Hijack
A Bremerton-area land developer said yesterday that he and a friend have been questioned in connec- tion with the "D. B. Coop- er" hijacking of a North- west Airlines plane last Thanksgiving eve.
The hijacker was thought to have parachuted from the plane somewhere in Clark County with $200,000 extorted from the airline after he had commanded the pilot to fly from Seattle to Reno.
William "Jack" Lewis, of Seabeck, the land devel- oper who is also a free- lance engineer, said the FBI first talked to him last Saturday after he ran a [guess: gimmick] newspaper ad- vertisement promoting his development and addressed to "D. B. Cooper," the name used by the hijacker.
Lewis said FBI agents have also talked to a friend of his who resembles Coop- [guess: er].
[illegible] is not the hijacker. Lewis said last January he told the Bremerton Sun he thought he knew who the hijacker was. - It was not the friend questioned by the FBI, he said.
The FBI declined com- ment on Lewis' statement that he and his friend had been questioned.
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p.A15 Seattle Post- Intelligencer Seattle, Wash.
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Date: 4/28/72 Edition: Final Author: Editor: Dick Lyall Title: NORJAK Character: or 164-81 Classification: Submitting Office: Seattle ☐ Being Investigated
COPY SENT TO BUREAU SEARCHED ............ INDEXED ........ SERIALIZED .......... FILED .......... MAY 4 1972 FBI — SEATTLE
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DB Cooper-22404