Part 53, page 69

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FD-350 (Rev. 7-16-63)

(Mount Clipping in Space Below)

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Bremerton man probes 'Cooper case

By DEE NORTON William (Jack) Lewis, a Bremerton dance-hall operator, who has been interviewed by federal agents about the "D. B. Cooper" hijacking November 24, said today he wishes he never had begun investigating the hijacking on his own.

Lewis, 32, Seabeck, who also works as a free-lance engineer, said that as many as four Federal Bureau of Investigation agents interviewed him eight times between Saturday morning and Wednesday, asking about the man who ransomed a Northwest Airlines 727 for $200,000.

The interviews ended, Lewis said, when the agents informed him of his constitutional rights and he said he wanted an attorney present during the questioning.

LEWIS SAID he has investigated the hijacking in hopes of collecting a $10,000 reward. In January he in- [illegible section] cluded Cooper's name in an advertisement to sell some property, he said. Response to the advertisement started him on a "better theory than what the F.B.I. has been doing," Lewis said.

"I have cooperated with the F.B.[I.], but now I just want to forget the whole thing," he said. "A friend who looks like Cooper [guess: but] who I'm sure is not was pulled away from his dinner table and treated very un-gentlemanly and I have lost a friend. I'm sure he'll never

talk to me [illegible] Lewis would not identify the 'friend' today or say where the friend lives.

LEWIS SAID F. B. [I.] agents showed him photographs of an unidentified man in a [illegible] standing [illegible] front of a Bremerton [guess: Wig] store. The photographs were mailed anonymously to the F.B.I.

"No way is the real Cooper going to stand in a plainly identifiable background and have his picture taken," Lewis said.

Mrs. Joy Jensen, wig-store manager, has told agents the man in the photo spent an hour in the store about three months ago, tried on several wigs but bought nothing. The Bremerton Sun reported.

Lewis said he will meet with agents Monday when his attorney, Curtis [guess: Goons], returns from California. [He] expect[s] to be called before the grand jury now," [he] said. "I just want to forget the whole thing."

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(Indicate page, name of newspaper, city and state.)

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p.A16 Seattle Times Seattle, Wash.

b6 b7C

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Date: 4/28/72 Edition: Final Author: Dee Norton Editor: Henry McLeod Title: NORJAK

Character: 164-81 or Classification: Submitting Office: Seattle

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Searched Serialized Indexed Filed

MAY 2 1972 FBI — SEATTLE

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DB Cooper-22407