Agency: FBI
Originator: FBI
From: LEG, LO
To: DIRECTOR, FBI
Document date: 12/13/1963
Document type: PAPER, TEXTUAL DOCUMENT

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Agency Information

AGENCY: FBI

RECORD NUMBER:

124-10151-10146

RECORD SERIES :

HQ

AGENCY FILE NUMBER: 62-109060-1957

Document Information

ORIGINATOR: FBI

FROM: LEG, LO

TO: DIRECTOR, FBI

TITLE:

DATE: 12/13/1963

PAGES:

3

SUBJECTS :

• IVANOY, ALEKSANDER KOSTERSKI, BKG

DOCUMENT TYPE: PAPER, TEXTUAL DOCUMENT

CLASSIFICATION: Confidential

RESTRICTIONS: 4

CURRENT STATUS: Redact

DATE OF LAST REVIEW: 05/05/1997

OPENING CRITERIA: INDEFINITE

COMMENTS: INCLUDES INTERVIEW

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CIA HAS NC' OBJECTION TO

(Priority or Method of Mailing) DEGLASSMIBATION AND/OR,

RELEASE QI GIA INEORMAZIOI

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FROM

DIRECTOR, FBI

LEGAT, LONDON (62-359) (P)

228-97

ASSASSINATION OF PRESIDENT

JOHN F. KENNEDY

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Remyairtel 12/10/63 setting forth

. MI-5 concerning ALEKSANDER IVANOY.

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PAIROSTKRSKI ®

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KOSTERSKI was intervioned at tbe American:

Embassy on

the afternoon of December 5th and a report on this Intervien

Has formardad to the American Embassy on December!'6tb,

11963÷

He now forward further. inforration on KOSTRiSKI elicited tron

him at this intervien and a f'urther assessment of this'

san nad.

as a rosult of enquiries.

According to his omi statement, KOSTARSKI was one of

of nine children.

His father was a subordinate

railnay employee and was killed while KUSTIRSiT was still

Beiny, the eldest shild in the family KOSTERSKI felt

responsible for the well being of the rest of the family, and

since he spent bis time looking after

the family ho did not

have a chance to attend school regularly or acquire a skill

in any trade.

SOSTERSKI says that he was in laot a

Fron the time of his father's death until 1939

small time crininal

his sain income was dorived from smuggling across the German,

Gzechoslovak and Polish borders.

As a result of these.

activities he mas imprisonod on several occasions in Poland.

About December 1939 when the Russians invaded big

time KOSTinSKI was al old hand at prison life and knew his may

He helped the General on several occasions with the

Later when serving in the Polish Army in the kiddle

ROSTERSKS

again found himself under RUDNICKI' 3 command

though KUSTErSKI

was then a sick man suffering from tuberculosis,

was unt'it for fighting and was employed only in baso employuent.

KOSTERSKI came to Britain after the nar nith the Polish

forcos from the Middle East; obtained formal discharge from the

Polish forcea and due to his disability was grantad an invalids

pension on which, to a large extent, he lives to the present

At first he supplemented his pension by running his own

transport business but had to give this up about tho joars ago

being physically unable to continue.

Vica area

whilst in this country/kostzaskI.ggt in touch with a

oung felish woren in Foland. Ea lagdaleny nastat, i born

10.7.31. infersan, whos he induced to join

Due in their old noquaintance General RUDNICKI helped KOS TUSKI

to get this monan into Britain fron Poland andsabe entorod, the :

V.R. on the official invitation of General RUDNICKI. KOSTERSKT

subsequently narried Era WASIAK and thay now have two, ohildred.

General RUDNICKI is Godfather to the elder. 'KOSTERSKILS MIPOSE

holps to provide for the family by doing domestic oleaning work

KOST&ASKI named as being a person who could speak forthin. General

RUDNICKI is a well known and respocted member. if the Polish enigni

comtunity. During the war ho was a divisional connender 1n thats

Polish Army and had a distinguished mar reoord. We are reliably.

intormed that ho is a trustworthy and reliable person.

CONTDENTIAL

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General RUDNICKI seems to have some personal

sentiment for KOSTERSKI due to the latter having helped

him considerably during his imprisonment and to this day

he takes a fatherly interest in KOSTURSKI's well being.

Although RUDNICKI's assessment of KOSTERSKI may be

noderated by personal feeling,

it is novertheless considered

to be a basically sound description of KOS TERSKI.

10.

RUDNICKI describes KOSTERSKI as an essentially

docent person despite his oriminal past.

He says KUSTERSKI

is a somewhat boisterous and emotional character who cannot

easily fit himself into society.

Ho is a person who mill

quarrel on the slightest provocation and appears to ba

mentally unstable.

From past experience RUDNICKI knOws

that

KOSTERSKI 1s given to inventing involved stories frequently

Most of these stories are

estimation these stories may be said to contain no more than

5% of fact. (C)

RUDNICKI was not

11th December, 1963.

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