R 458 fale vee HH ae TE AGENCY INFORMATION AGENCY: FBI RECORD NUMBER:  124-10151-10152 RECORD SERIES: HO ‘AGENCY FILE NUMBER: 62-109060-3718 DOCUMENT INFORMATION ORIGINATOR: | FBI FROM: LEG. BN TO: DIRECTOR. FBI TITLE: DATE: 09/01/1964 PAGES: 13 SUBJECT: JFK, INTV, BUSKE, FRIEDRICH RUDOLF DOCUMENT TYPE: PAPER. TEXTUAL DOCUMENT ORIGINAL Secret NEW CLASSIFICATION: CLASSIFICATION: REVIEW_DATE: 12/30/1998 UPDATE DATE: — 02/12/2001 STATUS  Redact : RESTRICTIONS: JFK Act 6 (4) COMMENTS: DoclIda: 32163573 Page 1
" Meth under the John F. Kennedy Assassination Re . cords Collec nm re EL foes ‘wn Hote}. Transmit the following in —<igeaae Via __ AIRTEL | (Priority or Method of Mailing) | oe ee Loe , | | TO: DIRECTOR, FBI (62-109060) a jets ae iP |: iperom: LEGAT , BONN (62-36) (P) 3 =|. suBsECT: “ASSASSINATION OF PRESIDENT... = JOHN. FITZGERALD KENNEDY-. fs November. 22, “1963, Dallas, Texas. NY “WISCELLANEOUS — “INFORMATION “CONCERNING a ~ ReBonnairtel 8/12/64. "7 tae Beas CI DNNS Friedrith ieel Kedah = Be hicvtgs bot’, 5 NE: yy Be Encloséad are 25 COpiés Of gn insert reflecting ~"\ gg information regarding nd an interview ye 1 4 Ny Re, \ with BUSKE. ZIG Lh lienwor th bedlué: soft of .. Fry § >: ; | “3 /r iz Wei LLG Z (se tiie ts f ZL. ~ § vend Cot mnacled \ ee, O14 Arde Ay Aah va L Ol/thL- AS Cogcee Xiffll — L geal XK eae a7 ° = as 5 - Bureau (Enc.- 83) IG, (1-Liaison) an he (2-Dallas: sais) 7 ‘wet Gn fo g10ee -3 7 ALS GaYreds $ “a7 SEP 8 1364 ot 7 oy \ (6) = at OR ETS ie xy - Sp UO 18BAL% DoclId: 32163573 FBI RE JK Date: 9/1/64 (Type in plain text or code) ALL INFORMATION CO ee W TS UNCLASS1L Hav] es jab lch ha SEL pir pAun Actisoc Approvedf*S Page 2? 7, Special Agent in Charge 3 A st = TALE toe, ee Sent
Hote). DATE: 11-14-2017 . ' fog +; oe ea C & a : — tT + : . . : , ' a” : Ve ‘BONN 62-36 if DALLAS 89-43 The following is a translation from German of a letter which was postmarked at Stade, N. Hannover, Germany, on an illegible date in April, 1964, The return address on the envelope read "Friedrich Rudolf Buske, 2179 Ihlienworth, Gefluegelhof -Birkenheim (West Germany)." Gf(ay aa "Stade, April 8, 1964 ) u) "To the Justice Department . of the United States of America -Washington, (D.C.) "Gentlemen: "Y take the liberty of urging you to place yourselves .in contact with the Office for the Protection of the Constitution of the German Federal Government, Office of the Foreign Ministry in Hannover. _ "On March 17, 1964,-I submitted to the above office certain data and information which should prove very interesting also to you. They might have a direct bearing on the causes of the assassination of your President Kennedy. inasmuch as I believe to have dependable informaticn to the effect that these ‘guided actions’ will become particularly important in the near future and will undoubtedly occur. "Fyrtedrich Rudolf Buske" With regard to the writer of the above letter, the | [Bundesamt fuer Verfassungsschutz - (BfV - West German Federal gency for the Protection of the Constitution}] furnished the following comments: Haar ge “Qa @lassified N fora ZLASSIFIED BY 5UGS sje, : ass \oape a2: 260 DECLASSIFY ON: 2 25% cee ihe r e JG . Kennedy Assassination Records Cobection Act of 1992 (44 USC 2107 ‘ "The indications I furnished are of great significance] Ye weet Fue DoclId: 327163573 Page 3
“Released under the John F. Kennedy Assassination Records Collection Act of 1992 (44 Usc 2107 ""_ ' Hote). DATE: 11-14-2017 ’ LO - é . 2 S BUSKE has been known to the[Bfyf¥s well as to other West German agencies: for a long while. He has been arrested eleven times in connection with various fraudulent operations and is presently serving a further sentence of four and one~half years in the prison at Stade, West Germany... The data which Buske referred to in his letter to the Department of Justice as having been submitted to German authorities was given first to. the (jandesamt fuer Verfassungsschutz ~ (LEV - State Office for the Protection of the Constitution), for the State of Niedersachsenf¥na@ was also referred by that agency to the (atv JS) The (Bf ound that this information contained no concrete dat which would in any way bear on the problem of resolving the circumstances of the murder of Preside JOUN F, KENNEDY or the background of that crime. The [Bf dded that BUSKE has, in the past, frequentiy furnished information to various German agencies and officials which information was regarded as un- believable and the [pfuiokpressed the opinion that there was 4 strong probability that BUSKE was attempting through these current reports to the [BfV nd the letter to the Department, of_ . Justice to gain some favorable treatment for himself. The [BfVI6) said that BUSKE's information pertained to alleged operations | . and plans of the East German Intelligence Service which nformation was regarded as fantastic and had resulted in the (eu listing BUSKE's name on a ere. ist of persons regarded 2 eA iS unreliable information peddlers. Subsequently, the[pew] urnished copies of the following three documents written in the German language the second of ; which is the material referred to by BUSKE in his letter to the Department of Justice. GO (1) ° A. copy from the Federal Penal Register (Strafregister) in Berlin + Charlottenburg #9, Germany, reflecting previous convictions of FRIEDRICH AXEL RUDOLF JOHANNES BUSKE, ,born , November 3, 1918, in Nepzin, Pomerania. &) u) / ‘ (2) A letter dated March 16, 1964, at Stade from BUSKE to the "Office for the Protection of the Constitu- tion, Field Office, Hannover" which was a brief Letter of transmittal of an attached "Statement Written for the Federal Office for the Protection of the Constitution in Bonn-Hannover Field Office." SECRET DoclId: 32163573 Page 4 ery ee
“Released under the John F. Kenned i i i . y Assassination Records Collection Act — Hote). DATE: 11-14-2017 ° ee OE NENA ae oe os — SECREL "y am pointing it out in this connection because I feel sure that further such actions are going to _ follow. I remember that, for instance, Treskow told me who, incidentally, spoke a good German, that Hitler hed been a great teacher, namely to create unrest &s in Czecho-Slovakia, Austria and Poland, to bring about dissatisfaction. And that is what we want. ( "y am taking precautions so that, if events similar to those that came about in America were to happen again, I shall be able to say that I have already uttered a warning. ( U) "T have also informed my attorney-at-law. i wrote by the same mail to the Chancellery of the Federal Chancellor, for I regard it as irresponsible to wait meekly and inattentively.” u) _ ; The seu pStscquentiy advised that it had caused a search to be nade of the records of the West German Ministry of Justice and could locate only two letters written by BUSKE to that Ministry these being dated September 10, 1963, and December 12, 1964.. Both contained general statements to the effect that BUSKE had valuable information and requested an opportunity to present it. Neither of these letters made any reference to the assassination of President KENNEDY in any context (QR - The Bundeskriminalamt - (BKA - West German Federal Criminal Police) informed that it had arranged to have BUSEE interviewed with regard to his alleged information possibly bearing on the assassination of President KENNEDY. The BKA furnished a statement dated at Stade, Germany, July 31, 1964, and signed by BUSKE and witnessed by Kriminalkommissar KOLLECKER. The text of this statement in trensiation from the German is -ag follows: A (U) ‘ "Consequent upon pertinent instructions, there | appears, in the capacity of 2 prisoner, u) eee ne tmnt ee te oe "Friedrich-Rudolf Buske, farmer, ; porn in Nepsin, Greifswald xreis (Germany) on November 3, 1918, (: pet getters ane, tet Sinaia 6 eri etna sees ete ata eam a ~SECRED DoclId: 32163573 Page 5