i « ON'SY. AGENCY INFORMATION Released under the John F. ennedy Assassination Records Ollection Act of 1992 [44 Usc AGENCY: FBI paces oea2-2017 RECORD NUMBER:  124-10027-10190 RECORD SERIES: HQ AGENCY FILE NUMBER: 62-109060-3745 DOCUMENT INFORMATION ORIGINATOR: FBI FROM: GEMBERLING, ROBERT P. TO: DIRECTOR, FBI TITLE: DATE: 08/28/1964 PAGES: 154 SUBJECT: JFK, SUSPECT, UNKNOWN DOCUMENT TYPE: PAPER, TEXTUAL DOCUMENT ORIGINAL . NEW CLASSIFICATION: — Unclassified CLASSIFICATION: REVIEW DATE: 12/18/1998 UPDATE DATE: 01/16/2001 STATUS Redact ~ RESTRICTIONS: JEK Act 6 (4) COMMENTS: REPORT, TABLE OF CONTENTS i-iii, INDEX ON PAGES 132-142 HW 54046 Docld:32125853 Page 1
7 Uo . * PD 96s (Fer, 41-8) - Cc ; C) 5 or, f° — FEDERnA. BUREAU OF INv__TIGATIONNES : INVESTIGATIVE PERIOD REPORTING OFFICE OFFICE OF ORIGIN DATE | DALIAS © DALIAS 8/28/64 | 11/29/63 - 8/26/64 THLE OF CASE REPORT MADE BY TYPED BY \ SA ROBERT P. GEMBERLING jté ASSASSINATION. OF _PRESIDENT JOHN FITZGERALD KENNEDY, CHARACTER OF CASE NOVEMBER 22,1963, DALIAS, TEXAS” ~ MISCELIANEOUS - INFORMATION CONCERNING DE TLARSIELED BY \° eports of SA ROBERT P. GEMBERLING, 12/16/63, 3/30/64, re 75/15/64, 6/19/64, 7/16/64, and 8/7/64, at Dallas. (i) i “P= ay ENCLOSURES: TO THE BUREAU, NEW ORLEANS AND SAN ANTONIO 4 Cae Enclosed herewith and attached to appropriate copies of this: — -— yeport for the Bureau are three photographs of Exhibit D-233, and ten copies of a page containing the contents of an obscene postcard tL \ 4 \ postmarked March 18, 1964, Newton Falls, Ohio, received by Dallas = ¥. = County District Attorney HENRY WADE on March 19, 1964. ns 2 ~ . j Two copies of Exhibit D-233 and two copies of the page a °<" gontaining the contents of the obscene postcard are listed as enclosures dent /s Conmi.asion in the body of this report with those TEVA CES we a re i DO NOT WRITE IN SPACES BELOW 1 - San Antonio (89967) (Bnc. 1) (Info AARC bs is | 4 - Dallas -43) 33 « |7- 7 ese ygiBion RECORD OF ATTACHED REPORT we 4 Xe4 i aagncy./..---- tAb A. Ara hat Oe ’ ~ REQUEST RECD. COP a sa 49/7 ie ramen eae Gn Le DATE FWD. ...--- aie. hE glee How Fwo. .....-]-5 re GAMES <n ee. ‘soit 8 e--7s-; Aah ee nnn Seeeennnnnnen EEnenneEe Ene ais r und HW 54046 Docld:32125853 Page 2?
-2- cm tata "It bas cost me a great deal of effort not to write this letter to you before. As i mentioned previously, your brother, John F. Kennedy, had asked me to wait until now. "FY want to let you know confidentially that I had foreseen the assassination of your brother. [I also know quite accurately the precise circumstances of the Dallas assassination, "Therefore, I shall be looking forward to hearing from you in the near future, “ "Of course, the precise details must be of very great interest to you. "With kind regards, I remain "Sincerely yours, (signed) “Alfred Hiller" che Bundeskriminalamt (XA - West German Federal criminal Police), Wicabaden, Gernany, arranged for an inquiry regarding ALFVED HILLER and an inquiry regarding the matter outlined in tis letter. The BXA furnished the results of © this inguiry in the form of a report dated June 25, 1964, at Stuttgart, Germany, prepared by the Criminal Police Office of the State Police Directorate for North Wuerttemberg, which was approved and ferwarded by Chief Criminal Commissioner EGETEMATER «| The report stated that inauiries had been made at the towns of Boeblingen, Altdorf, Rottenburg am Neckar and Tuebingen, German *ederal Republic. It was found that there was no record with the police regarding HILLER in Altdorf or Tucbingen. He was known to the police in Boeblingen and Rottenburg. While employed in Boeblinzgen HILLER had written » i incoherent letters to various citizens in the Village of Altdorf, HW 54046 Docld:32125853 Page 3
: C Q -3- ; The records of tha Division of State Police at Rottenburg revealed that on April 8, 1994, at about 11:50 AM, HILLER had partially undressed himself on the Neckar River bridge in Rottenburg; had throvn pieces of his clothing in the river and had also thrown a number of phonograph records in the river and distributed others to children. The records stated that HILLER had religious hallucinations and that he was receiving medical treatment in Tuebingen from Dr. OSTERMANN who immediately committed him to the Tuebingen University Hospital following the occurrence, The report states that HILLER was questioned on June 23, 1964, at his home in Altdorf, Germany, and the following information regarding his background and the circumstances of his writing the letter to Attorney General ROBERT KENNEDY was obtaineds a Al Red egftusr'h full name is ALFRED HEINRICHYATLLER. He was born April 13, 1942, at Altdorf, County of Boeblingen in the State of Baden-Wuerttemberg, Germany. His current address is #14 Bueh!l Strasse in Altdorf.¢,Hé,: isan i electric installer by occupation and is single, Hts-pzrents are CHRISTIAN and ANNA HILLER who are farmers having the same address as HILLER, In the portion of the report containing descriptive data which reads "if unemployed, since when" it is stated "ill since April 7, 1964." In the portion of the same form which deals with current status of health it is stated "since 1963 under doctor's care for nerve conditiong" In discussing his past with the interviewing officer, HiLLER furnished the following informationg > HILLER has becn under medical treatment since the age of 12 and suffers from an overly sensitive nervous system, He had suicidal thoughts as early as the age of 13 and claims that since the age of 4 has been dreaming in series of things which later occur and says he thus dreamed in advance about” the death of President KENNEDY about a year and a half ago. He attended primary school in Altdorf from 1948-1954 and a higher secondary school in Boeblingen from 1954-1957. He said -that he was the best student in his class but tegan to neglect his work and could no longer be promoted in 1957. He, therefore, left school and became an apprentice electrician. He says My 2.0} TT, Tie. a HW 54046 Docld:32125853 Page 4
~6~ we, ‘ ‘“As Kennedy told me in the last conversation, he himself had determined the people who were to murder him, He also told me that the people were envious among themselves and that each fought to be able to commit the murder. r wud fib ay ite ne) "It was most likely for this reason that it later came to the murder of the murderer, whose action was begrudged him, "YJ had originally predicted, and had also made it a condition in conversations with the President, that I would not make known the truth about the murder to the public until half a year after the deed. I also suggested the founding of a memorial library. “However, Kennedy did not agree that the announcement of the truth about the murder should wait so long; rather, he demanded that his family be told about it in time. Therefore, some 14 days after the deed, I informed Robert Kennedy, who then informed the widow of the President. Jacqueline Kennedy then sent me a telegram which stated that she thanked me very much and was of the opinion that what I had reported was the best solution of the case. Unfortunately I no longer have the telegram." Tae document setting forth the information obtained from HILLER on June 23, 1964, was signed by him and witnessed by Criminal Folice Commissioners SCHABER and ‘YORHRINGER. ‘The report continues with a portion signed by Commissioner SCHABER - stating that Dr. OSTERMANN could not be reached for questioning but that Dr. von KALCKREUTH, who had charge of HILLER in the sanitarium from April 8 to June 5, 1964, had stated that HILLER - suffered from schizophrenia and that his visions and series dreams are symptoms of that illness. The statement by SCHABER. concludes with the following commentses 7 . "As the inquiry shows, we are concerned in the case of Hiller with a mentally ill person. He suffers from Schizophrenia, .- HW 54046 Docld:32125853 Page 5
"His accounts and written reports about his meeting with the Chief of the French Secret Police, ' and his knowledge about the grounds for the murder of President Kennedy, are symptoms of this illness. “Hiller has released the doctors who treated hin, in a written statement, from their duty to keep his communications secret. "The examination of Hiller was conducted so theroughly in order to demonstrate what his mental state actually is. HW 54046 Docld:32125853 Page 6