SAC Portland re NORJAK suspect Roger Cliffe Strom, law enforcement checks and acquaintance interview
Document date 22 March 1974
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Subject: Cooper Files: Cooper-Part-96:098-101 Document: Memo SAC Portland re NORJAK suspect Roger Cliffe Strom, law enforcement checks and acquaintance interview Id: Cooper-Part-96:098-101 Page: https://cooper.theunsolved.net/documents/Cooper-Part-96%3A098-101 What is wrong (title, date, type, which pages belong together, copies)? What does the scan show?
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FBI 164-81, Vault Part 96 pp. 98–101 (DB Cooper-43010–43013), Memo, dated 22 Mar 1974, serial PD 164-41-1385 (as read from the transcript) — cooper.theunsolved.net/documents/Cooper-Part-96%3A098-101
SAC, PORTLAND (164-41) (P) 3/22/74
SA [REDACTED] b6 b7C NORJAK
Re Portland memo of SA [REDACTED], 2/26/74. b6 b7C
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On 3/6/74, the following law enforcement agencies were contacted for any identifiable information with ROGER CLIFFE STROM, white male, born 2/20/31. Negative results were obtained:
Deputy [REDACTED] Marion County Sheriff's Office Salem, Oregon
EUNICE PENNY Salem Police Department Salem, Oregon
Lieutenant [REDACTED] Oregon State Police Salem, Oregon
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On 3/11/74, Deputy [REDACTED], Lincoln County Sheriff's Office, Newport, Oregon, stated their files con- tained no identifiable information with ROGER CLIFFE STROM.
On 3/11/74, Deputy [REDACTED], Lincoln County Sheriff's Office, Newport, Oregon, who handles law enforce- ment matters at Depot Bay, Oregon, stated the name ROGER CLIFFE STROM was not familiar to him. However, Deputy [REDACTED] stated a [REDACTED] resided in [REDACTED] Oregon, but [REDACTED]
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On 3/12/74, Chief of Police HOMER MOEN, Lincoln City, Oregon, stated ROGER CLIFFE STROM was not identifiable with any individual in their files, nor was the name familiar to him.
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(3) - Portland RFR:ceh (3) cc[illegible]
[Signature]
164-41-1385 .. [illegible] 040
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DB Cooper-43010
PD 164-41
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On 3/12/74, Investigator [REDACTED], Oregon State Police, Newport, Oregon, stated ROGER CLIFFE STROM [REDACTED]
Efforts to contact [REDACTED] 3/12/74, at the [REDACTED], Oregon, and at her residence located [REDACTED] Oregon, met with negative results.
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On 3/12/74, Mrs. DAWNA REIMERS, Clerk, U. S. Postal Service, Lincoln City, Oregon, stated there was no record on ROGER CLIFFE STROM entering a forwarding address at Lincoln City, Oregon, during the past two years. REIMERS noted [REDACTED] [REDACTED], Oregon.
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On 3/18/74, [REDACTED] Oregon, telephon[REDACTED] was interviewed at [REDACTED] [REDACTED] telephone [REDACTED] stated ROGER CLIFFE STROM [REDACTED]
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[REDACTED] stated ROGER was employed during 1971 as a truck driver for North American Van Lines. She added STROM lived [REDACTED] in Depot Bay during the time he was employed with North American. She added he received his trip schedules from the Portland Office of North American, and they would probably be able to advise if he was in travel status on 11/24/71. [REDACTED] stated she could not recall whether [REDACTED] was in Depot Bay, or Lincoln City, on 11/24/71.
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[REDACTED] thereafter related [REDACTED] was considered a near genius, who served in the U. S. Army during the 1940s, after which he was employed as an air- craft engineer at Boeing Company, Seattle, Washington. She stated STROM was a victim of the Boeing layoffs during 1967. [REDACTED] believed it was during this same period that ROGER [REDACTED] stated as a result of those problems, [REDACTED] was committed by [REDACTED] for mental health reasons to the Veterans Hospital, Seattle, Washington. She noted, how- ever, his stay at the hospital was voluntary, and he was in a position to leave the hospital at any time he desired. [REDACTED] could not recall the period of his commitment.
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DB Cooper-43011
PD 164-41
[REDACTED] stated [REDACTED] left his job with North American Van Lines during the summer of 1973. She described him as being a little eccentric, and in one particular area paranoid. She stated the latter was a result of ROGER's belief that people were attempting to poison him. She recalled there were incidents in restaurants where ROGER feared the food he was being served was poisoned. [REDACTED] further stated [REDACTED] [REDACTED] was very frugal, and for considerable periods of time he survived on one dollar per day, although he had more funds available to him. She noted, however, that ROGER never got much money. [REDACTED] further recalled [REDACTED] was an individual who liked to stay in old motels during his travels. [REDACTED] was not aware of ROGER's current address. [REDACTED] stated ROGER was last seen during January, 1974, [REDACTED] who noticed him in an auto parts store in Lincoln City, Oregon. She stated [REDACTED] did not engage STROM in any conversation.
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[REDACTED] stated [REDACTED] had never mentioned the name D. B. COOPER, and never talked of the hijacking of the Northwest Orient aircraft, nor had he ever indicated the possession of a large sum of money. [REDACTED] did not believe [REDACTED] was capable of committing an act such as hijacking, and stated that although he was very protective of his activities, she felt him to be extremely honest. [REDACTED] added [REDACTED] [REDACTED] to her knowledge, had never received instruction or training in parachuting or flying.
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[REDACTED] thereafter provided the following individuals [REDACTED]:
Mother A. J. STROM Riverview Terrace Spokane, Washington
[REDACTED] Seattle, Washington
[REDACTED] Spokane, Washington
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DB Cooper-43012
PD 164-41
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[REDACTED] stated there was an instance, date and location unrecalled, wherein [REDACTED] went to visit ROGER at a tent site where he was residing somewhere in the Seattle, Washington area. [REDACTED] stated, allegedly, ROGER came out of the tent with a gun and ordered [REDACTED] off of his property.
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[REDACTED] who believed she had a photograph of ROGER in one of her [REDACTED] albums, stated she would attempt to locate it, and would thereafter provide it to the FBI.
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LEADS
PORTLAND
AT SALEM, OREGON. Recontact [REDACTED] and obtain photograph of ROGER CLIFFE STROM.
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AT PORTLAND, OREGON. Contact North American Van Lines and attempt to determine STROM's travel activities on 11/24/71.
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[guess: STOP-SIN] CAUTION: [REDACTED] HAS BEEN COMMITTED FOR MENTAL HEALTH PROBLEMS AND HAS DISPLAYED FIREARM WHEN ORDERING RELATIVES FROM HIS RESIDENCE.
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DB Cooper-43013
Serials: PD 164-41, PD 164-41-1385