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

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Dan Who?

BY RICK ANDERSON

The FBI, after 13 months of looking, has given up its man-hunt for the first and most fa-mous folk hero of air piracy, D. B. Cooper.

Apparently the problem was, there isn't any D. B. Cooper. Federal agents, according to this month's FBI Bulletin, are now running around after somebody named Dan Cooper.

And the new Cooper, suspect-ed of hijacking Flight 305 on Thanksgiving evening here last year and parachuting into his-tory with $200,000, doesn't look much like good ol' D.B.

In fact, Dan Cooper fits the role better, more rugged, dash-ing. If he has a look alike, it might be a young John Payne.

D. B.

Payne once starred in a move with actor Ben Cooper, and remember, you read it here first.)

Dan Cooper has more hair than D.B., the hairline starting farther down the forehead. The hair is combed differently, from the front swept back neatly to the right. D.B.'s hair was thin, curly, and was seemingly finger-combed straight across like a slightly balding bank teller.

The new Cooper has a wider, thinner mouth, turned down more prominently at the corners.

His cheek lines are deeper, the chin rounder, the forehead broader and creased slightly and, unlike D.B., Dan Cooper appears in new FBI sketches with AND without the infamous wrap-around sun glasses, reveal-ing "possibly brown" eyes.

The FBI in Seattle won't talk about the new Coop-er, or why one alias was replaced with another, if that is in fact true, and why suddenly there is, in effect, a new suspect in the world's first successful skyjacking.

"If you want to write a news story about it," said an FBI spokesman, "then I have no comment."

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p.Al Seattle Post- Intelligencer Seattle, Wash.

Date: 12/28/72 Edition: Final Author: Rick Anderson Editor: Dick Lyall Title:

NORJAK

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

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