SAC Los Angeles to SAC Portland re NORJAK suspect Roger Howard Masterson
Document date 25 July 1978
Also filed separately as sections:
Report a problem
Email this to [email protected]
Id: Cooper-Part-42:101-103
Subject: Cooper Files: Cooper-Part-42:101-103 Document: Airtel SAC Los Angeles to SAC Portland re NORJAK suspect Roger Howard Masterson Id: Cooper-Part-42:101-103 Page: https://cooper.theunsolved.net/documents/Cooper-Part-42%3A101-103 What is wrong (title, date, type, which pages belong together, copies)? What does the scan show?
A person reads every report. Corrections are made by hand, to the data — titles, dates, names, which pages belong together — never to the scans, and they can take a while to appear.
FBI 164-81, Vault Part 42 pp. 101–103 (DB Cooper-1679, DB Cooper-16790, DB Cooper-16792), Airtel, dated 25 Jul 1978 — cooper.theunsolved.net/documents/Cooper-Part-42%3A101-103
FD-36 (Rev. 7-27-76)
FBI
TRANSMIT VIA: PRECEDENCE: CLASSIFICATION: ☐ Teletype ☐ Immediate ☐ TOP SECRET ☐ Facsimile ☐ Priority ☐ SECRET ☒ Airtel ☐ Routine ☐ CONFIDENTIAL ☐ EFTO ☐ CLEAR Date 7/25/78 ------------------------------------------------------ TO: SAC, PORTLAND SUB 9N3 [handwritten] FROM: SAC, LOS ANGELES (164-497) (RUC) (3) SUBJECT: NORJAK (A) OO: Seattle
---
On 7/20/78, [REDACTED] Corona, California, telephone number [REDACTED] advised she [REDACTED] ROGER HOWARD MASTERSON, aka Howard Roger Masterson, Howard Roger Mastenson, Howard McGill, Howard Roger Kuskie. She described MASTERSON as a White male, born 10/6/43, in Oregon, 5'9"-5'10", 145 to 155 pounds, dark brown hair, hazel eyes, medium complexion.
She said [REDACTED] [REDACTED] numerous states including Oregon where MASTERSON had many relatives. In 1970, MASTERSON was arrested in the Los Angeles, California, area on a Colorado warrant, charging him with writing bad checks.
She said MASTERSON was returned to Colorado, convicted and served about 1½ years at the State prison at Buena Vista, Colorado.
[REDACTED] said she [REDACTED] [REDACTED] She believed MASTERSON was released from prison in October 1971, at which time he moved to Portland, Oregon. She never had any contact with MASTERSON after his imprisonment in 1970 except through [REDACTED]
---
2 - Portland ② - Seattle 1 - Los Angeles
MLT/dga (5)
Approved: [signature] Transmitted ________ Per ________ (Number) (Time)
GPO : 1977 O - 225-539
---
[SERIALIZED] JUL 30 [guess: 1978] [REDACTED] 164-C1- 8000
---
DB Cooper-16790
LA 164-497
---
[REDACTED] said that she was notified 6/1/72, that MASTERSON was found dead in his Portland apartment by [REDACTED] [REDACTED] (LNU).
---
[REDACTED] said she was living in Corona when MASTERSON died, however, Portland PD detectives tele- phonically contacted her regarding MASTERSON as they were investigating his cause of death; and she does not know if this has ever been resolved. She said one of the Portland police officers who contacted her was [REDACTED] [REDACTED] also said she saw a copy of the autopsy report concerning MASTERSON and there were physical discrepancies in the report. For instance, [REDACTED] said the autopsy report described the deceased (MASTERSON) as a much larger man than MASTERSON and also described the deceased as having all of his natural teeth. She claimed MASTERSON had dentures or a partial plate in the upper front teeth area. [REDACTED] said she has always had a doubt in her mind as to whether or not it was actually MASTERSON that died.
---
[REDACTED] said that she [REDACTED] MASTERSON's [REDACTED]
---
[REDACTED] said she has never been close to [REDACTED] however, over the most recent 4th of July holiday [REDACTED] dropped by her Corona residence unannounced and stayed several days. During this visit, [REDACTED] said she [REDACTED] MASTERSON and [REDACTED] remarked, "I always suspected he (MASTERSON) did the COOPER hijacking in Oregon."
---
[REDACTED] said [REDACTED] did not elaborate further and nothing additional was said about the hijacking.
---
[REDACTED] examined the artist drawings of unknown subject, aka DAN COOPER. [REDACTED] said there was a definite resemblance between MASTERSON and the unknown subject.
---
[REDACTED] said she had no knowledge of MASTERSON having any experience with parachutes, but she believed he took a few private flying lessons in the mid 1960's in Van Nuys, California.
---
DB Cooper-1679[1]
LA 164-497
[REDACTED] MASTERSON he smoked Viceroy, Marlboro and Tareyton cigarettes.
[REDACTED] said that MASTERSON [REDACTED] [REDACTED] lived at [REDACTED] Beaverton, Oregon. [REDACTED] said [REDACTED] was familiar with MASTERSON's activities prior to his death and she would know [REDACTED] whereabouts.
She said [REDACTED] lives at [REDACTED] Portland, and works at Mier and Frank Department Store, Portland.
ARMED AND DANGEROUS.
---
LEADS
PORTLAND
AT PORTLAND, OREGON: Contact Portland PD for information regarding MASTERSON.
(2) Interview [REDACTED] (LNU) concerning MASTERSON as possible suspect in this case.
(3) Interview [REDACTED] regarding her reported suspicions of MASTERSON being involved in this case.
---
- 3* - DB Cooper-16792
Serials: LA 164-497