Agency: FBI
Originator: FBI
From: SAC, WMFO
To: SAC, BH
Document date: 12/21/1965
Document type: PAPER, TEXTUAL DOCUMENT

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Released under the John E. Kennedy Assassination Records Collection Act of 1992 (11 USC 2107 Hote).

DATE: 11-14-2017

VLA HUNDIA LIUYOLOLLII

IDENTIFICATION FORM

AGENCY INFORMATION

AGENCY: FBI

RECORD NUMBER: 124-10063-10172

RECORD SERIES: BA

AGENCY FILE_NUMBER: 89-30-20A

DOCUMENT INFORMATION

ORIGINATOR: FBI

FROM:

SAC, WMFO

TO:

SAC, BH

TITLE:

DATE: 12/21/1965

PAGES: 12

SUBJECT: JFK, SUSPECT, DOTTERRER, LESTER FREDERICK, DEATH, THREAT, LBJ

DOCUMENT TYPE:

PAPER, TEXTUAL DOCUMENT

ORIGINAL

Secret

CLASSIFICATION:

REVIEW DATE:

STATUS

11/26/1996

Redact

NEW

CLASSIFICATION:

UPDATE DATE:

01/19/2001

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RESTRICTIONS:

JFK Act 6 (1)(C)

JFK Act 6 (4)

COMMENTS:

INC MEMO, INTV

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DATE: 11-14-2017

Fri:

(JFK):

H2496

CONFIDFSTIAL SECKEN

SAC, BIRMINGHAM (157-1398)

12/23/65

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Vaster

Filterrori

SAG, WTO (157-750) (RUC)

Classifier

Dy 1813.K190

Declassif

5170413

TER PASTA MATERICK DOTIERRER 84-30-20, 21, 5,22

A/2ZAETAL MATTERS

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61-276-145

Reurlet dated 10/22/65, regarding Infornation concern-

Ing subjeet.

A revies of the WFO indices disclosod the folloning

CLASSIELD BY: 5668 SLD/GEL

1.5 (ed)

REASON:

DECLASSIFY ON: X ()C6

Information pertaining to the subjoet.

Baltimore Teletypa to Bureau, 11/22/63, entitled,

Miscellaneoua Information Concerning the Aesassination of

President KENNEDY, set forth that Mrs. HALIlS DRUMMOND, 7004

arelg straet, Apartient zi, saat leasant, ely and,

furniahed

intornation pertaining to an individuas claiming to lie & liza.

She advised that she had overheard this Individual nakinz

statements expressing satisfaotion over the death of kidlilaus;

apparently in ragard

to then VicA-President JOHNSON,

It was noted on the couunlastion that don duias.

sacret

service, kashington, D. Cos was appraised or tha abova.

The above Individual overheard by DRUMMOND making the

above statewants as identified through the tag number of his

automobile as being LESTER FREDERICK DOTTERAIR, 5824 St. Cla1r

Drive, Prince Osorges County, Narylard.

WO letter to socrot service, 12/5/63, rogarding the

AssEssInation, confirind the above inforsation related by DRUMMOND

concerning DOTTERRER's statements.

ATI, TNFORHATION CONTAINED

BEFETH IS UNCIASSIFIED EXCIPT

WHERE SHOWN OTHERWISE...

contacted the Bureau on Wh/59, edvlaing that he had bean

ouated from the Anerioan tarl Party.

is stated that he had

been expelled as the result of a rifle being stolen from ROCkWElL

and ROCKWELL, considered hiM a prima suspoet. Ba desired Burall

assistance in establiating hia Innocence.

2 - B1raingham

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Richmond

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Into

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CONFIPENTIAL

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CONS

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WFO 157-750

Bulet further noted that he had been discharged

from the Army in 1945, following a neuropsychiatric examination

which disclosed a chronic anxiety state.

It would appear

that DOTTERRER may be somewhat mentally unstable.

On 4/1/59, former WF 1022-C (RAC)advised SA ELMER TODD

that a meeting of WUFENS on 3/31/59, was attended by "Lester

• (real name Dotterer)".

This source further advised

3/25/59, that ROCKWELL suspected. DOTTERER as stealing a rifle.

on 3/19/59, DOTTERRER appeared at WFO and advised

SA F. B. MC GIVERN that he had lost his job at the Naval Gun

Factory by reason of reduction in force.

He stated that he

had applied for work at other agencies and firms and had been

turned down because of some derogatory information.

At this

time he indicated a hatred for "Jews"

He stated it was the

B'Nal B'rith and other Jewish organizations which were causing

him his trouble.

on 3/19/59, Captain RAYMOND S. COLE, Assistant Chief

of the Arlington County Police,

Arlington, Virginia, Identified

LESTER FREDERICK DOTTERRER, 229 Pennsylvania Avenue, S.E.,

Washington, D. .C., as being at American Nazi Panty Headquarters

on that date.

WFO airtel and LHM, 7/8/58, captioned Legation: of

Yeman

WDC-IS-Yeman set forth Information concerning DOTTERRER.

¿Information emanating from a very sensitive source which is

classified "confidential'.for dissemination because it reflects

ent bushen a ve mates sure sheer doosed could

reasonably result in Identification of a confidential informant

of continuing value and compromise future effectiveness thereof)

7/2/58,

DOTTERRER contacted

and advised that he

help to the Arabs

on 7/1/58, DOTTERRER contacted SALEM BADER, President,

United States

as follows

(no Asian Institute, BADER described DOTTERRER

He rest singere

resides at 229 Pennsylvania Avenue;

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COMPIDEMPAI

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did not like the U.S. DOTTERRER is an

expert engineer, expert mechanic and had

been working for the U.S. for a number

of years; Had been fighting Zionism for

fifteen years.

on 7/1/58, DOTTERRER contacted the [Yeman Legation 7(5)

and advised them that he was ashamed of being an American

on 7/8/58,

isclosed that his are was 44

and

was employed as a mechanic at the Naval Gun Factory, Washington,

D. C.

On 11/29/65, a check of the files of The Credit

Bureau, Inc., by IC GARY I. WOOD determined that as of 1961,

LESTER F. DOTTERRER,

5824 St. Clair Drive, Hillcrest Heights,

Maryland,

was married to his third wife,

AMALIA, and had no

credit rating. He formerly resided at 229 Pennsylvania Avenue,:

S.E., and was formerly employed by the Naval Gun Factory,

Washington, D. C.

H1llcrest Heights, Maryland.

On 11/19/65,

IC WILLIAM H. LYERLY caused a search to

be made of the files of the Prince

Georges County, Maryland,

Police Department, and determined that LESTER FREDERICK DOTTERRER,

born 9/7/11, Pittsburgh, Pa., resided at 5024 St. Clair Drive,

Hillcrest Heights,

Maryland, in January, 1963.

He was charged

with assault

1/13/63.

The disposition record

showed that he-was-

found to be "Not Guilty" on 1/14/63.

These police records

showed record of two traffic violations during 1963, and 1964.

A check of the following criminal records during

November, disclosed no

record pertaining to DOTTERRER:

U.S. Park Police; Fairfax County Police Department,

Fairfax, Va.; Alexandria Police Department, Alexandria,

Va.; Arlington Police Department, Arlington, Va.;

Montgomery County Police Department, Montgomery County,

Maryland.

SECRED

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ONTIDENTAL

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DATE: 11-14-2017

ZUNITED STATES L VERNMENT

Memorandum

TO

SAC, WASHINGTON FIELD OFFICE,

DATE: October 22, 1965

FROM CHL

M/SAC, BIRMINGHAN (157-1398) (RUC)

SUBJECT:

DiVO-?LESTER FREDERICK DOTTERRER

0140-17754

jits

pum.

1 1145

Detain

RACIAL MATTERS

Gater 1. Nattiler

Enclosed for the New Orleans and Washington

Field Office is one copy each of an FD-302 reflecting

interview with LESTER FREDERICK DOTTERRER, Birmingham,

Alabama, on June 12, 1965, and one photograph for each

division of LESTER FREDERICK DOTTERRER.

DOTTERRER, when interviewed on June 12, 1965,

advised that he left Washington, D. C. about four weeks

prior to June 12, 1965, hitchhiked to Montgomery, Alabama,

and contacted retired Admiral JOHN G. CROMMELIN.

CROMMELIN

referred DOTTERRER to Dr. EDWARD R. FIELDS, Information

Director, National States Rights Party, Birmingham,

Alabama, and DOTTERRER subsequently contacted FIELDS and

told FIELDS how the FBI had "harassed" him.

FIELDS, in

turn, referred DOTTERRER tO THOMAS E. BLANTON, JR.,

Birmingham, Alabama, since BLANTON was on the

"Committee

Stop Federal Harassment." DOTTERRER contacted BLANTON

during the latter part of May, 1965, and assisted BLANTON

in picketing the FBI office in Birmingham, Alabama, on

June 12, 1965.

DOTTERRER advised that he is extremely

anti-Jewish and anti-Negro, believes President JOHNSON

should be removed from office,and classified himself as

a member of the "lunatic right-wing." DOTTERRER denied

being a member of or ever having been a member of the

Ku Klux Klan, American Nazi Party, or the National States

Rights Party, and stated that he belongs to no organizations.

For the information of the New Orleans Division

and the Washington Field Office, the files of the Birmingham

Division reflect the following references to LESTER FREDERICK

DOTTERRER:

-3 Washinston Tield Difice fine, 2)?

-New Orlean

(Enc. 2)

2-Birmingham

(1-157-1398)

ALL INFORMATION CONTÁNED.

DRD:rte

(1-17426)

(6)

HEREIN IS UNCLASSIFIED

DATE 8/10/92 BY 9203 PANEA

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BH 157-1398

BH 305-R on May 25, 1965, advised that

THOMAS E. BLANTON, JR. and MITCHELL BURNS visited

LESTER DOTTERRER on May 24, 1965, at a rooming house

in the area of Twelfth Avenue and 30th Street,

North,

Birmingham, Alabama. DOTTERRER told BURNS and

BLANTON that he was living in Birmingham for only

a few weeks since leaving Washington, D. C., that

he is a machinist by trade, and had to leave Washington,

D. C. since he could not maintain employment in that

city due to "FBi harassment."

BH 305-R reported on June 9, 1965, that

THOMAS E. BLANTON, JR. planned to use DOTTERRER to

picket the FBI office on June 12, 1965 and although

BLANTON did not like or trust DOTTERRER, he felt he

could still use him for picketing and similar chores.

BH 305-R reported on June 13, 1965, that

Dorfeith picketed the fBl office on June 12, 1965,

carrying signs requesting the FBI to release

information

contained in FBI files regarding MARTIN LUTHER KING and

"stop Federal harassment."

BH 305-R reported on June 15, 1965, that DOTTERRER

recently arrived in Birmingham and was referred to BLANTON

by DR. FIELDS, Information Director, National States Rights

Party. BLANTON indicated that DOTTERRER is a "nut" and

did not trust him, but planned to use him to picket the

FBI office and similar such activities.

BH 305-R on Jure 15, 16, 21, 1965, reported

that BLANTON does not tust DOTTERRER and did not intend

to use DOTTERRER for such

activities in the future.

BH 305-R on June 25 - 26, 1965, reported that

BLANTON mentioned DOTTERRER in a joking manner, indicating

that DOTTERRER was different than he, and that

he did

not trust DOTTERRER.

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