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about being_ a member of a
minority race and perhaps he
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the
Negro should join forces with JIBRIL,
a Jordani no
specific objective was stated.
The other individual approached was Dr_ KLAUS
KUETTNER , currently employed at St_ Luke Presbyterian Hospital
Chicago According to information received from KUETTNER
JIBRIL
approached him and discussed the fact that the Germans of which
ances try KUETTNER is a part
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had a "hatred" for Jewish people
and Dr. KUETTNER and JIBRIL, should join forces, again
no
specific purpose named
LINDENBAUM pointed out it is his opinion JIBRIL,)
as a member of the Jordanian even though born in
Palestine
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which is now
Iszeepeople '
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has such a emotional
seating. of his hatred of Jewish individuals
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he is not able
to to life in the United States . LINDENBAUM advised
he
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this was in all probability taught to JIBRIL as a
youngster and this is the line of thinking he knows _
LINENBAUM again advised JIBRIL did not make any
statements about political leaders
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or figures nor did he
ever make any statements concerning any assassinations He
did note, however
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JIBRIL did talk once about involved
in the murder or murders of British soldiers who were in
Jordan when he
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JIBRIL , was about fifteen or sixteen years
of age .
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FD-3 02 (Rev. 4-15-64 }
FEDERAL BUREAU OF INVESTIGA TION
1 Date
6/14/68_
ABBAS OTHMAN JTBRTL , a resident of' 87th ana
Orchard Streets, Lemont, Illinois
$ was interviewed at
West Suburban Hospital, 530 North Austin Boulevard _
Oak Parlc, Illinoi3, The re he i8 currently employed in the
Department of Pathology, on leave from the Northwestern
University Medical School, 303 East Chicago Avenue
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Chicago,
Illinois
JIBRLL is now age and he stated that he was
born in Palestine on He came to the PII
United States in 1952, and attended Loyola University in
Chicago _ In 1956, he. went to Canada 80 that he could return
to the United States with a visa in order to enable himself to
become an American citizen_ He related that he returned
to the United States with the visa in 1956 and ultimately
obtained a PHD from Oklahoma University in He obtained
his American citizenship in at Oklahoma City _ He related
that he is currently a consultant in pathology at West Suburban
Hospital He related that he was married in Chicago in
to the former CAROLTNE B. HIOFFMAN who was born in Marshfield,
Wiscons and they have four
chiidren
a8 follows : MONA
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age 6,
DEANAH
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age 4 , SARAH, age 2, and OTHMAN age 1 He stated he
has one brother in the United States , ABDEL KIRIM JIBRIL, age
28, who was a180 born in Palestine
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and who i8. also employed
at West Suburban Hospital
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Oak Park, Illinois
He stated that his father, OTHMAN JIBRTL, age 67,
is residing in Israel-occupied Palestine and he has another
brother, OMAR JIBRTL , who is empl by the Ministry of
Finance_
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Amman, Jordan In addition, he has two brothers in
Israel-occupied Palestine and also a sister in that location_
He also has a sister living in Kuwait and another sister re-
siding in Amman, Jordan_
He stated that approximately one yeaf ag0, he
was employed at the Argonne Laboratory, Lemont , Illinois,
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On
6/6/68 at Qak Park, Illinois
File #
cd 89-61
SA EDHA RD KINZER, JRo ana
SA JOHN M MC DONOUGH [mah/gja 6/10/68
by Date dictated
This document contains neither recommendations nor conclusions of the FBI. It is the property of the FBI and is loaned to
your agency; it &nd it8 contents are not to be distributed outside your agency_
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and one of his superiors there at the time was ARTHUR LINDENBAUM _
He said that LINDENBAUM Wa8 of Jewish extraction and was
aware of the fact that he, JIBRIL, wa8 o1 Arab extraction
He said that LINDENBAUM was further aware of the fact that
JIBRIL, had been born and lived at least part of his life
in Israel-occupied Palestine_ He related that LINDENBAUM
constantly "needled" him regarding Arab Isreeli relations,
particularly in regard to the formation of che State of
Israel in 1948 from former Arab territory_ JIBRIL noted that
11 Mi he has a low boiling point over the Arab Israeli political
situation and LINDENBAUM, in hi8 opinion, was obviously
aware of thig He at first denied ever having made the state-
ment to LINDENBATM or anyone else that he wa8 a member of a
Becret organization whose purpoge was to a88a88inate political
leaders and others in power in this country, Upon reflection,
however, he stated that in the heat of argument with LINDENBAUM
he majy have in fact made such statement however, if he did,
it was merely an emotional outburst on his part
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and had no
basis in fact . He added that as far a8 he knows there 18
absolutely no Arab terrorist group operating in the United
States , however, he does know that such groups do operate in
Israel and in other areas of Palestine nOw occupied by the
State 0f Israel
He further commented that he does not personally
know and never heard of SIRHAN BLSHARA SIRHAN, the alleged
assa8inator of Senator ROBERT F KENNEDY
He stated that he conbiders himself a loyal American
11 citizen and in this regard commented, "I love this country
He also related that he 18 Vice President of the Arab American
Congress for Palestine, Which has n0 official address other
than a post office box in Chicago, Illinois, the identity of
which he does not know He said the purpose of the Arab
American Congress for Palestine 12 to aid Arab refugees who have
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been' forcibly removed from their homes by the formation 0f
the State of Israel in 1948,
a8 well a8 the former Arab lands
which have been conquered by the State of Israel. According
to JIBRIL, this aid consieti:of food and other necessities of
life, such as clothing and medicine
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but dpes not include
firearms or other things of this nature .
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