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Search For 'D.B. Cooper' Appears Centered Here

By DENISE KALETTE and OREN CAMPBELL of The Sun Staff

The search for skyjacker "D. B. Cooper" apparently is centered this week in the Bremerton area.

Agents for the Federal Bureau of Investigation are visiting downtown businesses asking for help in identifying some photographs of a man they believe resembles the hijacker-parachutist who collected $200,000 ransom last Thanksgiving eve from Northwest Airlines officials in Seattle.

At least one of the photographs appeared to be taken in downtown Bremerton. That photo -- of a man with stylish long, dark hair -- apparently was taken on the sidewalk in front of L. H. King Imports, a wig store at 427 Pacific Avenue.

A spokesman for that store said FBI agents told them the photo was received in the mail last week from an unidentified tipster. The spokesman said employes were told that the man in the photo might be D. B. Cooper.

J. Earl Milnes, agent in charge of the Seattle office of the FBI, declined to make any statement abut the FBI investigation here.

But Milnes told the Associated Press in Seattle today that Army units from Ft. Lewis have been pulled out of the area southeast of Woodland in the Merwin Dam vicinity, where a search for clues in the Cooper case has been conducted.

"We don't have a mass of men there any longer but we are still working on it," Milnes said.

He declined to tell the AP whether any evidence has been found in the investigation.

The search in southwestern Washington was resumed last month. Authorities said none of the marked currency given the hijacker had turned up.

Mrs. David (Joy) Jenson, manager at King Imports, said four FBI agents have been to the store three days this week.

She said she was shown two photos. One day she said she was shown a photo of a man without the wig and another day she was shown a photo of a man with a wig.

She said the man in the photos looked familiar. "It was just a man that if I saw him I'd recognize him."

Mrs. Jensen said she remembered when

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p.1 Bremerton Sun Bremerton, Wash.

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Date: 4/27/72 Edition: Vol. 73 #18 Author: Denise Kalette Oren Campbell Editor: Gene Gisley Title: NORJAK

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

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SEARCHED ......... INDEXED ........ SERIALIZED ........ FILED .......... MAY 4 1972 FBI—SEATTLE

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DB Cooper-22408