4/15/64 AIRTEL TO : SAC, nate vob-43) FROM : SAC, CHICAGO (62-6115) SUBJECT: ASSASSINATION OF PRESIDENT JOHN F, KENNEDY, 11/22/63, DALLAS, TEXAS MISCELLANEOUS - INFORMATION CONCERN ING * Re Dallas airtel to the Director dated 3/17/64. // ~ |Enclosed ‘herewith are 25 copies each of the \_ - following: . 2, Insert oatitled Polish Reaction to the , Assassination of President JOHN F. KENNEDY; 2, ¥FD-302 interview concerning the Polish ’ reaction to the assassination of President JOHN F. KENNEDY ;— | 3. Administrative insert page identifying j source furnishing the above information. / ei It should be noted that the information contained in the enclosed FD-302 was originally furnished to the Bureau in a LHM and carried the classification "SECRET." UU CLASS. & EXT Jy-d 7-74 REASON- 77" II, I 4. 3 | SE RET DATE OF REVIEW_Y Pro - . | 2.- Dallas (Encl. 75) (BM) me oo ( 1 = Chicago | a / : <i DW8S/rms ‘ C ( ihc : (3) lohg # Same ccursned an GU 5- SYP HW 53130 DocId:32115450 Page 2
F'D-302 (Rev. 1-25-66) FEDERAL BUREAU OF INVES. VATION Date April 13, 1964 LACHS, Special Advisor for Disarmament M Foreign Minister, LACHS and LEWANDOWSKI ope tragedy. 2/6) w) ’ LACHS and LEWANDOWSKI then commented that the assassination was a disaster and as its result, the future was very uncertain, LEWANDOWSKI commented that his first reaction to the assassination was the possibility of a military coup d'etat in the United States; however, LACHS had convinced him that such a reaction was unfounded and based on a lack of knowledge of the American political systen. P(A) LACHS ard LEWANDOWSKI then discussed the inefficiency of the Dallas Police Department, and commented that the Chief of Police in Dallas had impressed them on bis television interviews as being "an incompetent idiot," LACES commented that the arrest of LEE OSWALD and his identifica tion as a communist was probably a whitewash by the inefficient Police Department to dig up a scapegoat for the incident, and LACHS compared the arrest of? OSWALD to the SACCO and VANZETTI incident. LACHS commented that no disciplined communist could have committed the assassination, since it was contrary to the interests of KHRUSHCHEY as there was no alternative in the United States as good as President KENNEDY 4/1 5063 Sto/aee ie (Ha | LACHS and LEWANDOWSKI appeared very shocked by the incident and commented that as a result of the assassination, they were very uncertain of the future and On 11/24 & 25/63 _Evanston, Illinois File #__CG 62-6115 —_ oO ee EE EY ES by SA WILLIAM E, DUFF/rms -D~ Date dictated 11/25/63 a ee ee This document contains neither recommendationg nor conclusions of the FBI. It is the property of the FBI .and is loaned t your agency; it and its contents are not to be digtributad outside your agency. HW 53130 DoclId:32115450 Page 3
L CG 62-6115 WED/rms — The source who requested his” identity” ‘not pe” divulged and who furnished information ‘concerning a_ pest tag with BOHDAN LEWANDOWSK1I, Polish. Ambassador to the United Nations; and MANFRED: LACHS, “Speéial: Advisor for mament Matters to the ‘Polish Foreign Minister, is CSCG: essa, “who furnished the Dor) on November 24 and 25/49 to | SA WILLIAM E, DUFF 9 HW 53130 DocId:32115450 Page 4