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From: LEG, BN
To: DIRECTOR, FBI
Document date: 9/1/64
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• AGENCY FILE NUMBER: 62-109060-3718

DOCUMENT INFORMATION

ORIGINATOR: FBI

FROM:

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TITLE:

LEG. BN

DIRECTOR. FBI

DATE: 09/01/1964

PAGES: 13

SUBJECT:

JFK, INTV, BUSKE, FRIEDRICH RUDOLF

DOCUMENT TYPE:

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PAPER. TEXTUAL DOCUMENT

Secret

12/30/1998

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JFK Act 6 (4)

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ASSASSINATION OF PRESIDENT_

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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 Busko, 2179 Ihlienvorth, Gefluegelhof

Birkenheim (West Germany)."

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"To the Justice. Department

of the United States of America

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.

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"On March 17, 1964, I submitted to the above office

certain data and infornation 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 becone 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)

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Buske has been known to tho Bives 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 Landesamt fuer Verfassungsschutz - (LfV - State Office

which would in any way bear on the problem of resolving the

circumstances of the murder of President JOHN F. KENNEDY OT

the background of that crime.

The BfVeadded that BUSKE has,

in the past, frequently furnished information to various German

gencies and olficials which intormation was regarded as un-

elievable and the Bivexpressed the opinior

that there was

strong probability that BUSKE was attempting through these

current reports to the BiVand the letter to the Department of

Juscice to gain some favorable treatment for himself. The Bive

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

(S)BIV Listing BUSKB's name on a warning

list of persons regarded

as unreliable information peddlers.

Subsequently, the Jurnished copies of the following

three documents written in the German language the second of

which is the material referred to by BUSkE in ais letter to

the Department of Justice.

(1) • A. copy from the Federal Penal Registe

(Strafregister) in Berlin - Charlottenburg

#9, Germany, reflecting previous convictions

November 3, 1918, in Nepzin, Pomerania.

(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."

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"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, Ireskow told

me who, incidentally, spoke a good German, that Hitler

nad been a great teacher,

namely to create unrest as

In Czecho-Stovakia, Austria and Poland, to bring about

dissatisiaction. And that is what we want. (lu)

"I am taking precautions so that, il events sinilar

to those thai came about in Anerica were to napper

again, I shall be able to say that I have already

uttered a warning.

"I have also informed my attorney-at-law.

I wrote

by the same mail to the Chancellery of the Federal

Chancellor, for

•I regard 1t as irresponsible io wait

meekly and inattentively. "Ou)

The Bry Subsequently 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, 1964..

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

The Bundestriminalamt - (SKA - West German Federal

Criminal Police) informed that it had arranged to have BUSKE

interviewed with regard to his alleged information poss BRA

bearing on the assassination of President KENNEDY.

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 Germen is

as fOllOws: * (U)

"Consequent upon pertinent instructions, there

appears, in the capacity of a prisoner, del ul

"Friedrich-Rudolf Buske, Iarmer,

born in Nepsin, Greitsvald irels (Germans) | l

on November 3, 1918,

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