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Document date: 10/1/64
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Released under the John F. Kennedy Assassination Records Collection Act of 1992 (44 USC 2107 Note).

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Agency Information

AGENCY :

RECORD NUMBER :

FBI

124-10158-10094

RECORD SERIES: HQ

AGENCY FILE NUMBER:

105-82555-5029

Document Information

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FBI

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TO:

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TITLE:

DATE:

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10/01/1964

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JFK, OPINION

DOCUMENT TYPE :

PAPER, TEXTUAL DOCUMENT

CLASSIFICATION:

Secret

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1B; 4

CURRENT STATUS: Redact

DATE OF LAST REVIEW :

09/21/1999

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Mr.

Sullivan

Mr. Lenihan

Mr. Goble

FOR /PRILLRONTS

SECRET

SECREn SES

October 1, 1964

52

1051

4/23/93

RE:

DOUGLAS T

018

nd by archa

Decketly on u

Reference is made to your letter dated

September 22,

1964, your reference No. 5955. U

November 25 and 29,

Enclosed is one copy each of throe letters dated

1963, and September 27g

have received from the subject and which follow

1905 g

which we

pattern as the copy of the

the sane

letter you sent us. For your

Information, we have conducted no investigation of the

subject. u

We have no objection to your asking the

authorities in Malaysia to let you know it Webster should

appropriate

come to notice in that part of the world. L

105-82555

Enclosures - 3

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CLASSIFIED BY 5468 Sco/sel

TNG : kao

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NOTE:

DECLASSIE ON: 25X G)

9/1/99

regarding

Classified "Secret" because inquiry from phillpottels

this subject was so classified.

subject, who lives in the Far East,

Incoming

• advised

that

has developed his theorles

about the assassination of President Kennedy to the point of

absurdity.

Subject wrote British Embassy, Washington, D.C.,

Malaysia setting forth these theories.

him Since there are similarities in the personal histories of

british are interested in

Webster and an individual who visited the British Embassy in Moscow

on July 29, 1964,

to tell the story about his meetings with Lee

Harvey Oswald in the USSR in 1960.

British requested any background

information on subject and proposed asking appropriate authorities

in Malaysia about

Webster.

Webster generall

The enclosures received by us from

by the British.

follow the same pattern as the letter received

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SECRET

(FK)

9/1199

CLASSIFIED BY 5668 SLO/ga

122/92 LASSIFY ON: 25X

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2004

34073

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64-175-331-66,

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No.

No. 5955

T22nd September 196

Lee Oswald

1(4)

ADear B1l1,J

* Nr. Douglas

BESTER (u malaysia

malaya

We mentined to you ast month that Mr. Douglas WEBSTER

propounded his theories on the assassination of Presiaent

KENNEDY and of other public figures which he alleged

to have

In case

you have not already received it

on

2.

informed us that WEBSTER was born on 22nd

January 1920 at LINCOLN, NEBRASKA and had been working for

*GOODYEAR RUBBER Co. in Malaya an

Indonesia.

He had suffered a nervous breakdown in 1940 and an

unconfirmed report from an Indonesian friend of his suggested that

he was a homosexual with left-wing tendencies.

WEBSTER

subsequently informed us himself that he could be contacted through

his sister Mrs A:

California

REMONT, Of 650 mashvenue,

MENLO PARK

3.

WEBSTER has now written to our Embassy from Malaysia.

enclose a copy of his letter from which you will see that

he has developed his assassination theories to the point of

absurdity.

The curious and interesting feature of the letter

is the reference to the Sino-Soviet conflict. (syu)

4.

is we pointed out to you earlier

there are similaritiests

in

the personal histories of WEBSTER and Konstantin Petrovic

SERGIEVSKY who called at our Embassy in MOSCOW on July 29th 1964

tell a

story about his meetings with OSWALD in the U.S.S.R. .

in 1960.

We understand that this story has been taken into

account

by the

Marten Commission

REC- 52 105-82555-5021

LOL

15.3 OCT 2 1964

DA

SECRET

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2000e 9

5.

It may be that both wEBstER and SERGIEVSkY are unbalanced

cranks.

But that bothrof them should have called at the British

Embassies in WASHINGTON and MOSCOW respectively within four days

isoremarkable and leads one to wonder whether indeed it was just

a coincidence.

It seems to us just possible that the approaches

of both WEBSTER and SERGIEVSKY to our Embassies were inspired

by the K.G.B. who were hoping thereby to discredit what has

been said on these matters by RAGOs?

since his defection.*

Gan: Provided you have no objection, we propose to ask the

appropriate authorities in Malaysia to let us know if WEBSTER

should come to notice in that part of the world.

additional background information

have on him would be most welcome

yoy may be able to let us

fours sincerely (4x u)

*(C.I.G. [Phillpotts) S

•W. Sullivan gus

DONE SECRET

105-82-555-5829

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F. Kennedy

Assassination Records Collection Act of 1992 (44 USC 2107

Note)

c/o rostraster

Kuantail, Pahang,

Malaysia

3 Soptenbor 1964

Declassify on

CLASSIHED BY S668540/6l

DECLASSIFY ON: 25X.

dashington,

D. Co, Ua 8. 4.

SECRET

Attn. Mr. Daw

Dear Mr. Day:

I Fine!

On a Saturday norning in early July, you were land enough to

see we

For about

hour.

I do not know, of course, if you reported the meeting to higher

authorities, or if my appalling

thesis died a'borninge

In the eveng a brict

synopsis might be useful, this letter i raspeotfully subninted. u)

Fror oxperience in the Halayan Energency, Indonesia, and a life-tine's study

of the probleu,

I chance that comonist agents throughout the world, md for

decades paste se steadily eliminating, through slou-acting poisons Inducile

"natural" death or serious disability involving hart attacks and liver/Lidnes

attacks, all the creditable people of stature to whistl they can bain cocoss u

Ilius, if we are a "generation of vipers" or nations of shear, it is anarcasingly

clear

that ve are such by deliberate design. & gave the ghastly example chat at

one were a contemporary devil, the climination of, any,

25 or 30 2152460thans

would have removed all thet is memorable

or creditable, about that age.

Alternat

17, to remove 500 or 1000 eminent Viotorians would havaleft mostly chats & w

By way of example, I shoved you clippings involving the sudden deaths of

a young Malay, a young Indian, and a young American bezon The 1ist or

possible victims is endless, including such irroplaceable types as Orwell,

Devin, Gripps, Galtskoll, Hassan Ali Bayuni, of Aden, Ahmed Ibrahim of

Singaporco

Dato Suleiman of Malaysia, Dr. Diuenda of Indonesian recent

premiers.

of Indie and Australie, Prosident Roosevelt, No. Willkie, Mayor

La Guardia, Genoral Manshall, Senator Kefauver, Admiral Ricketts, the Kinnion

UN mediator on cyprus,

the author to H. White, and the film star

such as the Darl

of Avon, Fresidents Disenhover and Johnson

and Peter Sellers have been nost seriously veaxened when most needed al(u)

I showed you a lotter from Mr. Inn Fleming expressing a large measure of

agreement with this thesis, written before the Dallas disnster.

And I

undertoo.

to proove to you that long betore Pallas I had both written and

said many

times that Prosident Kennedy was too young to did e "naturalo

death,

but that bullets,

after

the

bombe, and nives could do the job.

To be wise

eventt is commendable; to be vise before the event is something

else.

Efforts since

the

London conference at 1903 have been consistente

Lenin but reaVe directed wol against the isar, the magnates, or tha

rich?

May

I express the view that the sino-Soviet "conflict" does not exist -

except in the plens of those who would bury us.

The Cuban and Assam crises

might

be

possible for me to assist in any wavy. I am at your service. There

other insighss available, it esked UL)

liberty of sending

1ta to the thirty of sent / to V. Duncan Sandys, for whom & have

on the no Tal

Dorkins webster.

SECRED

Non Bo

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SEC.ET

It is interesting to compare MOSCOW

Chancery's letter 1654/30/7G of July 30th,

1964 with Derek DAY's minute

1964 about Douglas WEBSTER.

i July 27th,

2.

We asked CIA about WEBSTER.

They

told us that he had suffered some form of

nervous breakdown in 1940 and had subsequentl

been rejected for a Foreign Service appoint-

nent e

Later, he had been dismissed from a

nilitary unit

In the 1960's he had been

in Indonesia and Malaya with the BARD

Corporation and the GOODYEAR RUBBER CO.

An un-named Indonesian acquaintance had

alleged

chat he was a leftist

and a homo.

sexualas

It is a remarkable fact that within

four days,.

an American and a Russian,

of whom had had some form of mental disorder

and had been rejected by their respective

foreign services should have approached the

British Embassies in WASHINGTON and MOSCOW

with stories about the KGB's Involvement in

the actual or intended assassinations of one

or more American Presidents,

stories which,

for different reasons,

been un

successful in telling

to: the American

authorities (Sf(M)

It is hard to resist the conclusion

that the KGB was behind both approaches.

one can only speculate at this stage on

what their aims were so(4)

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