Released under the John F. Kennedy Assassination Records Collection Act of 19927 (44 USC 2107 Hote). DATE: 11-14-2017 AGENCY : RECORD NUMBER : RECORD SERIES : AGENCY FILE NUMBER : ORIGINATOR : FROM: TO: TITLE: DATE: PAGES: SUBJECTS : DOCUMENT TYPE : CLASSIFICATION : _ RESTRICTIONS : CURRENT STATUS : DATE OF LAST REVIEW : COMMENTS : v9.1 Docld: 327165569 Page 1 OPENING CRITERIA : wn ne eee ee ee Hy ee eee Identification Form Agency Information FBI 124-10158-10094 HQ 105-82555-5029 Document Information FBI HQ 10/01/1964 5 JFK, OPINION PAPER, TEXTUAL DOCUMENT Secret 1B; 4 Redact 09/21/1999 INDEFINITE
a : 1 ETE Hote}. F. Kenedy i Tee —o£-1.992_444 USC 2107 Released under the J#hn F. Kenedy Assassinatién Records Cottect fo E: -14- Re. are = Mr, Sullivan + i =» Mr. Lenihan \? 1 = Mr.. Goble ‘Reference is niade, $6 your letter: dated Septenber 22, A864, your _Rererebee No. 5955. Lt a0 and ! ptember 27; 1963, which we ved  eeom ‘the subje nd which follow the sane a 1 as the copy of th ver you sent us. ‘For your , LOW ,, We have conducted na Anvestigetion of the Ms epy each of three letters datea Subject». // — uM | “fe » objection to your asking the appropriate ule t es in Malaysia ‘to let you know if Wobster should f yoy cone. to notice in that. part of she world. 1 Br C Boe 105-82555 a ' st lee. Enclosures a 3 ma posite Ka a a CLASSIFIED BY Sus sie [gh cee ay L-| TT ‘Classified "Secret" because inquiry from[PhitipotegyS) a regarding this subject was so classified. Incoming advised that De fob subject, who lives. in’ the Yar East, has developed his. theories Q. about the assassination. of President Kennedy to the. point, of | absurdity. Subject wrote British Embassy, Washington, D. C., from Malaysia’ setting forth these theories. British are interested in him:since there are Similarities in the personal histories of — Webster and an individual who visited the British Embassy in Moscow on July 29; 1964, to teil the st ory about® his meetings with. Lee Harvey. Oswald in the USSR. in “1960, British requested any background * information on subject and: proposed asking“appropriate authorities in Malaysia about Webster... The enclosures received by us from Webster generaliy, follow: ‘the - ‘same pattern” ‘as the letter received by the British JR) | VNRECORDED Docld: 327165569 Page 2?
— be Weleased wider the John F. Kennedy Assassi ion Records Co: ti leased wun u | ¥ Assassination Records Collection Act of 1 ‘ /’ DATE: 11-14.2017 992 (44 USC 2107 Hote}. . . . Ta RT ) : * ‘ } i : i SECRET ; (ae » als plete KASSIFIED BY 526% Ss , ppgrnssr ON: 25%, G) ; No. 5955 | P ye hese) ie 22nd September 196 see aT ; br Lee O8 Wie (d- Am Nm St eam she eae en 3 a ale - en : i, WF? sf 4 | AY i ‘We menticned to-youglast month that Mr. Doug as WEBSTER had called [at this-Embassyf on July 25th, 1964 and had propounded his theories on the assassination of President KENNEDY and of other public figures which he alleged to have been carried out by the Russian Intelligence Service. In case you have*not already received it, we enclose a copy of the.note on the interview with Mr. WEBSTER {which we passed to the c.1.4¢5) ay Poa /. fa SS i rn iat Fa ) \ 2,“ (@he c.1.4.[ informed us that’ WEBSTER was born on. 22nd -_ Jenuary_1920 at, EINCOLN,/ NEBRASKA and had been working for the” ne ; orporation and the GOODYEGR RUBBER Co. in Malaya ‘and /Indonesia. He had suffered a nervous breakdown in 1940 and an . “—@~neonrirmed report from an Indonesian friend of his suggested that | ys : he was a homosexual with left-wing tendencies. WEBSTER x. ey subsequently informed us himself that he could be contacted through * 7 his sister /Mrs, FREMONT, of 658 Nash Avenue, MENLO PARK 2 OS C a 1 i f ra orni ae ¢ Soy Riteee eel RESON INSEE SR EN PERS te RE EH RCD EN NEOTEL PETE NES SOME # ¥ 3. WEBSTER has now written to our Embassy from Malaysia. ™ - We enclose a copy of his letter from which you will see that | Yea he has developed his assassination theories to the point of. of ry absurdity. The curious and interesting feature of the letter i on is the reference to the Sino-Soviet conflict.(gyu) oo _ 4, &s we pointed out to you earlier, there are similarities42-" 4 £BE ap BBk hadnt) THE! Bat ? Ea in the personal histories of WEBSTER and Konstantin Petrovich | “ ASERGIEVSKY who called at our Embassy in MOSCOW on July 29th 1964 | 6 tell a story about his meetings with OSWALD in the U.S.8.R. . . » in 1960. We understand that this story has been taken into oe Mh account by the Matgen’Commission (gy Ec. 62 lOS- 82955" -—Sf) 5) a Ney rs x LOL | a an) a I ~ Pov co a =| ‘= ( { t 132165569 Page 3
Docld: 32165569 5. It may be that bot Soir. Ww. Sultivan Uy teleased under the John F. Kennedy Assassination Records Collection Act of 1992 (44 USC 2107 Hote)\ DATE: 11-14-2017 toe nO me Ge f SECRET WEBSTER and SERGIEVSKY are unbalanced eranks. But that. both::6fthem should have called at the British Embassies in WASHINGTON and MOSCOW respectively within four-days. . is remarkable ‘and leads one to wonder whether indeed it was just a coincidence. It seems t.o us just possible that the approaches of ‘both WEBSTER and SERGIEVSKY to our Embassies were inspired { by the K.G.B. who were hoping ereby to discredit what has been said on these matters by KAGO, since his defection.(&K . 6.2,;.,. Provided you have no objection, we propose to ask the. appropriate authorities in Malaysia to let us know if WEBSTER should.come to notice in that part of the world. Any additional background information may be able to let us - have ‘on him would be most nelcone (IKI U) Fvours sregTB 4) Fio..c. (Phizzpotts)| G) pees lol -besoy ~ £9 27 Page 4
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DATE: 19-24-2017 [Pompe akShscoany Kennedy Assassination Records Collection Act of 1999 (44 Ts 2107 Hote) - ey ~ u . 7 ~ eo ‘ . ‘le It is interesting to compare MOSCOW Ce ' Chancery's letter 1654/30/7G of July 30th, - 1964 with Derek DAY's minut July 27th, 1964 about Douglas WEBSTER u) } oe Ze We asked |CIA ‘bout WEBSTER. They . oo told us that he Mad“suffered some form of . nervous breakdown in 1940 and had subsequentl} been rejected for a Foreign Service appointe . ment. Later, he had been dismissed from a military unit. In the 1960's he had been in Indonesia and Malaya with the BARD Corporation and the GOODYEAR RUBBER C0. An unenamed Indonesian acquaintance had alleged that he was a leftist and a homo- sexual , 3 a - 30 It is a remarkable fact that within i. - . four days, an Americen and a Russian, both of whom had had some form of mental disorder | and had been rejected by their respective foreign services should have approached the | British Embassies in WASHINGTON and MOSCOW with stories about the KGB's involvement in | the actual or intended assassinations of one | or more American Presidents, stories which, for different reasons, they had been un- Pr = -guecessful in telling to: the American authorities of ) 46 It is hard to resist the conclusion that the KGB was behind both approaches. One can only speculate at this stage on what their aims were (Sxy(U) ol , bape . 2? : hh. I yPee ¥ ] CLASSIFIED BY Cte tas C.L.G. [Phillpotts ) ‘S DECLASSIFY ON: 25X | 11th August 1964 ) 7 a nn Oren} rues (7 ’ | Od y fr Charge d'Affaires hike rn | OX Yo, SECRET) Docld: 327165569 Page 6