WILLIAM R. DOBKINS - - 15-5747 (1-18-67)
Agency: CIA
Originator: CIA
From: FERRIS, NATHAN L.
To: SCOTT, WINSTON
Document date: 01/18/1967
Document type: PAPER-TEXTUAL DOCUMENT

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Date:

January 18, 1967

To:

Mr. Winston M. Scott

From:

Nathan L. Ferris

"aLegal Attache

Subject: WILLIAM P

POBKINS

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Reference is made to your memorandum No 11,174

dated November 17, 1966, captioned "Correspondence for the

Cuban Embassy"®

We have been advised that William R. Dobkins is a

person of doubtful mental stability who has been interviewed

in connection with the assassination of President John F.

Kennedy• He claimed to have served in the United States Marine

corps (UsMC) with Lee Harvey Oswald and alleged that after

telling Oswald of the theft of his (Dobkins') ranch by politicians

they talked about killing President Johnson, Governor John Bo

Connally of Texas, and Texas Railroad Commissioner James Langdon®

Subject also threatened these persons in a 1964 letter to the

Chairman of Texans for Goldwater•

Subject has claimed that he traveled to Mexico following

his discharge from the USIC in order to arrange a defection to

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Bus. The appreciate dates of this travel are at present

concerned Dobkins, Lee Harvey Oswald, various political

personalities in texas, and the assassination of President

Kennedy which the letter relates to the uncompromising attitude

of President Johnson. It is felt that Dobkins may have authored

this

letter-

Mrs. Marguerite Oswald, mother of Lee Harvey Oswald,

knows Dobkins and was in contact

with him in November, 1966.

She claims that he is very similar to her late son and that

some of the travel activity attributed to her son might have

actually applied to Dobkins.

You are requested to advise if you have any record

indicating

that Subject has been a visitor to the Soviet or

Cuban Embassy or has attempted to use their Consular facilities

to arrange travel to the Soviet Union. Additional descriptive

data concerning him will be furnished to you when available.

You are further requested to authorize the dissemination

in suitably paraphrased language with the source completely

protected, of the fact that Dobkins was in contact with the

Cuban Embassy, Mexico, D. F.

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