Released under the John F. Kennedy Assassination Rec i 1 . ords Collection Act pare. tata pots of 1992 (44 USC 2107 Hote). 7 Pease ( CO C) ‘ 4 ° FEDERAL BUREAU OF INVESTIGATION a Reporting Office Office of Origin Date Investigative Period DALLAS: | DALLAS TITLE OF CASE ASSASSINATION OF PRESIDENT JOHN FITZGERALD KENNEDY, 11/22/63, Dallas, Texas MISCELLANEOUS - INFORMATION CONCERNING OKA REFERENCES Reports of SA ROBERT P. GEMBERLING, dated 12/18/63; 3/30; 5/15; 6/19; 7/16; 8/7 ,28/64, at Dallas. ~ - _p- ; ENCLOSURES TO BUREAU Enclosed herewith and attached to appropriate copies of this report for the Bureau are three photographs of Exhibit D-232. Two copies of Exhibit D-232 are listed as enclosures for the President's Commission in the body of this report, with ~ those copies being attached to the copies of the report that are designated as President's Commission copies. ; Special Agent - Approved In Charge | Do not write in spaces below . Copies made: Oo 10 — Bureau (62-109060) (Enc. 3) (RM @- New Orleans (89-69) (Info) { - San Antonio (89-67) (Info) 4 - Dallas (89-43) F deen0-43 1903 RADII SMe SPECIAL ¥7-£2- g This report is loaned to you by the FBI, and neither it nor its contents are to be distributed outside the agency to which | _ Property of FBI - wt U. S. GOVERNMENT PRINTING OFFICE: 1955 o—344750 Docld:32166698 Page 2
Released under the John F. Kennedy Assassination Records Collection Act of 1992 (44 USC 2107 Hote). DATE: 11-14-2017 ~ ~ ny a at . o FD-204 (Rev. 3-3-59) UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE . FEDERAL BUREAU OF INVESTIGATION . : iors, oy, Copy to: : - ae hy a | | ; 3 ws RE} Report of: ROBERT P, GEMBERLING Office: Dallas, Texas = Date: September 18, 1964 | | Lo Field Office File No. 89-43 Bureav File No.: 62109060 Title: ASSASSINATION OF PRESIDENT JOHN FITZGERALD KENNEDY, — NOVEMBER 22, 1963, DALLAS, TEXAS Character: . MISCELLANEOUS - INFORMATION CONCERNING Synopsis: During course of captioned investigation numerous allegations have been received concerning persons other than the alleged assassin, LEE HARVEY OSWALD, and logical investigation has been conducted in each instance in an effort to resolve such © allegations. - pe “TLR CONTATRED a aA SSIPTED Pree KE SHOWE OTHERWISE ‘v CLASSIFIED BY - DECLAS ET ON he . This document contains neither recommendations nor conclusions of the FBI. It is the property of the FBI and is loaned to your agency; it and its contents are not to be distributed outside your agency. DoclId:32186695 Page 3 £Y-67 - / 30 v
"Released under the John F. Kennedy Assassination Records Collection Act of 1992 (44 USC 2107 Hote). DATE: 11-14-7017 SECRED ‘BONN 62-36 _ | | 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)." "Stade, April 8, 1964 "To the Justice Department of the United States of émerica Washington, (D.C.) "Gentlemen: "I 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. "The indications I furnished are of great significance inasmuch as I believe to have dependable information to the effect that these ‘guided actions’ will become particularly important in the near future and will undoubtedly occur. "Friedrich Rudolf Buske" | _ With regard to the writer of the above letter, the (Bundesamt fuer Verfassungsschutz - (BfV - West German Federal . Agency for the Protection of the Constitution furnished the following comments: «) ) bs . 14 : | : 7 fF - b7- 1308 3 Docld: 32166696 Page 4
Released under the John F. Kennedy Assassination Records Collection Act of 1992 (44 USC 2107 Hite}. DATE: 11-14-2017 eee on) ctenetaaat  Lee ) BUSKE has been known to the beifte well as to other West German agencies for a long while. e 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|Landesamt fuer Verfassungsschutz - (LfV - State Office for the chseafad of the Constitution), for the State of Niedersachsenfpand was also referred by that agency to the Brv.JS) The [BfVPround that this information contained no concrete data which Would in any way bear on the problem of resolving the circumstances of the murder of Preside JOHN F,. KENNEDY or the background of that crime. The|BfYyridded that BUSKE has, in the past, frequentiy furnished information to various German agencies and officials,ywhich information was regarded as un- believable and the jBf xpressed the opinion that there was a strong probability that_B was attempting through these current reports to the (BfyPend the letter to the Department_of . Justice to gain some favorable treatment for himself. The (Brv[S) said that BUSKE's information pertained to alleged operations and plans of the East German Intelligence Service which information was regarded as fantastic and had resulted in the BE isting BUSKE's name on a warning list of persons regarded aS unreliable information peddlers. (8) Subsequently, the (BEV furnished 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. 6g) (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. (i uw) (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 Ones’ 3D W) Ee Docld: 32166696 Page 5 69-69 - /30F
‘Released under the John F. Kennedy Assassination Records Collection Act of 1992 (44 USC 2107 Hotey. DATE: 11-14-2017 : a . geod TI Sg. nF "I 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 had been 2 great teacher, namely to create unrest as in Czecho-Slovakia, Austria and Poland, to bring about dissatisfaction. And that is what we want. (&) u) "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 2 warning. 5) uu) "Y 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.” G/U) . 6 The Bev) e lbsequentiy advised that it had caused a search to be made 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, 1968. 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. (iY) The Bundeskriminalamt - (BKA - West German Federal Criminal Police) informed that it had arranged to have BUSKE 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 translation from the German is as follows: "Consequent upon pertinent instructions, there appears, in the capacity of a prisoner, "Priedrich-Rudolf Buske, farmer, | born in Nepsin, Greifswald Kreis (Germany) on November 3, 1918, | . §9- 69 (366 wo ene ” DocId: 32186698 Page 6