Part 59, page 121

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

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CLUE TO D. B. COOPER —'BALD,' PAPER SAYS

BREMERTON, Wash. (UPI)—The FBI has concluded that "D. B. Cooper," the ransom hijacker of an airliner last November, is bald headed, according to the Bremerton Sun.

The Sun said it learned this from a reliable source, but did not indicate why the FBI thinks the missing man is bald. The FBI has refused to discuss its hunt for the skyjacker.

The FBI reportedly took a man from a Seattle restaurant last weekend to question him about the hijacking and told him he had been identified as skyjacker "D. B. Cooper," the Sun reported.

But the newspaper said the FBI later eliminated the unidentified man as a suspect in the hijacking last Nov. 23 in which a man commandeered a Northwest Airlines 727 jet, collected $200,000 ransom and parachuted into the night.

Picture Taken

The Sun said it learned from an authoritative source that the FBI photographed the Seattle man and questioned him at length about the hijacking.

A man who signed the passenger list as "D. B. Cooper" hijacked the jet on a flight from Portland, Ore., to Seattle. The plane landed at Seattle, where the hijacker freed the passengers and two stewardesses and collected four parachutes and $200,000 in ransom.

He ordered the pilot to fly toward Reno, Nev., at low altitude and low speed. When the plane landed at Reno, the hijacker, the ransom money and two parachutes were gone.

The FBI concluded that the hijacker must have parachuted over southwest Washington where a massive search recently was conducted.

The search for Cooper appeared to have shifted to the Bremerton area this week; FBI agents there have been questioning residents.

Man Questioned

The newspaper reported that the FBI had questioned William (Jack) Lewis, 32, a land developer from Seabeck, Wash., at least eight times since last Saturday. Lewis told the Sun he believed he knew the identity of Cooper. He was not available for comment Friday.

The FBI has questioned numerous other residents and showed them photographs of a man apparently taken in front of a downtown Bremerton wig shop.

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I-8Los Angeles Times Los Angeles, Calif.

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Date:4/29/72 Edition: Saturday final Author: Editor: Title:

Character: or Classification: Submitting Office: Los Angeles

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