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DEAR MR. DULLES,

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Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): 
CIA-RDP57-00384R000400020010-7
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RIFPUB
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K
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2
Document Creation Date: 
December 9, 2016
Document Release Date: 
May 23, 2001
Sequence Number: 
10
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Publication Date: 
January 30, 1953
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LETTER
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Approved ~?Qr Release 2001/08/23 :CIA-RDP57-OOr?~84R0004000 P.O.Dox 1356 ~Tashingt on, D, C . *OGC Has Reviewed* January 30. 1953 Allen ~T.Dulles Esq, 1308 29-~th St,N.W. WaahingtonjD.C. Dear dlr. Dulles# Please, overlook this letter being adressed to your home.There is a Attached,you will find copies of a few letters.They will oa.rtly sh~~v the strain and enmity under which my wife: suffered for many years.The m~an~ScobLionko, mentioned in them, is the continual irritant,I do hope that 1~~s.Houston i~ not going; to be misled by his machinations, You are entitled to a short resume 8f' our life before you could ju~-l;;e impartia.lly,I am in my 75-~th year,my wife 10 years your~er.I estsblishei myself as an Architect in 1900,Planned and built a cathedral 50 years ago. I had a fxliitful an~.i hon- orable career.T was a wealthy man to find myself together ti~rith my wife,in a furnished r?om,without ready funds. AND r..ot through our fault? If you will re_uistion the file, from I~r,Houston,it migkat shed some light on the subject, I mention it only shmrtly, that it decals with a CIA employee, or e~aployees,~rho engineered a landgrab of 1{J~000 Aare~s,who owe us now hundreds of do3_lars,,which ire miss, Over a year ago, Isuffered a stroke of my entire right side.Since then my wife was my nurse but she is breaking under the strain especially now,irhen both of us suffer frean influenza. It is a reprehensible and unameriean situation against two sick people? A few days age~lAr;Houston xrote,in which he disclaimed any responsibility but sympathized with vur plight: It seems to me,that the CIA should not be carrying an added burden through the inhuman landgrab of an employee or employees, My wife joins me in the hopre of an is~partial and human and just revie~r of the entire case,I did not have the honor of a personal hearing by Mr.Haustan,I do ask you for sate, ~rs,de Bobula just mentions to me that she was ifl the 1911 class of Bryn Mawr together with Margaret Du11es,She does not know her present address, I am, sincerely, 15 ce s Approved For Release 2001/08/23 :CIA-RDP57-003848000400020010-7 Approved F.,gx Release 2001/08/23 :CIA-RDP57-OOR000400020010-7 P,O.Box 1356 ~'Vashington,D.C, Januax-y 30. 1953 C O P Y O F LE T T E 8 S Frax: E.G,Sa?blienko to D+irs,de Bobula :: s December 15-rth,195~s In re: B~iinrLie D.Ward ve.~rana Msck DeBebula Dear E~rs.DeBebu].a: Although you are persistent in your unwarrmted taetiss with respect to the l~au.soleu:a, nevertheless,I am enelasing herewith ~2rs. Walters shack in the ausi ?f X50.00, It would seom to me that your ccntiriu.ed attacks to distress Mrs,Ward are entirely *it~* out ~ustifiaation,either iri law,faet or gala? Let us baps that the New Year will bring Y~ a greater sense of propriety its, this aerr- nection. years very tru].y,SCOBZ,I0NK0 & FRANK (Signed ) Frc~ Jose h C.Suraci Esc.. Uni?n Trust Blg. to E.G.Saablicu~ko,Allent?nm,Fenna. ~--23-52 $aar Mr,Scob ian'~m: Yrs.Eurana DeBobula has forwarded to me Tour letter to her of12-15, I ate at a loss to understand the statesaentg made in year letter in reference to her at- tempts to distress Mrs,Ward, I helped her prepare the answer jn the pending action in Pittsburgh to construe the gills involvedand to ad3ust the right+e of the parties with respect to the cemetery,I scruld not help but came to the conclusion that lAxe,Eurana DeBobula is the comer i.n fee of at least one-forthof the cemetery plats involved as well as the .n~ausoleuar. In the District of Cc~luffibia a mausoleum as 3.e.rge as this one has been described to me ~t would cost rover ffi5O,OOO?OO to build, If I am not mistaken iri the conclusion which I have reached,then it would seeffi that Mrs. DeBcbula has a substantial interes~,Maybe,if B~rs,Ward would malts ~4rs.DeBobula a satin-- factory offer for her interest in the cemetery sites and mausoleum. it might solve tre problems of both parties.ON ~dover~ber 21c.,1952 I wrote to Mr, David Roth at Pittsburgh and made the same suggestion to him,but I have ytt to hear frame him.I d? honestly feel that s?me effort at a reasonable settlement should be made and I would like to hear your views with regard to the situation. Very tru]tiy yours, JOSEPH C.SURACI {Signed) FrcEurana Dinkey Mock de Bobula,P,O.Bax ~35b,Washtn U.C. to Scoblionko, Dea Mr, Scoblionko, ~january twenty-five Nineteenhundred fiftythree. Your letter must be refuted before you,yeurself,believe the contents, ~;rs,i~ralter must have had heart failure before sending her sister fifty dollars for Christmas,Yvur heading of the letter,-n In re b+linrLie D,Ward vs. Eurana ~ffock DeBobula~r is erronec~us.I wager ~13r-s. Waltarweeps ?~ver sane poor Korean that she never saw while sending her blood what right- fully bel?nBs t4 me, As far morals, what about Mary Walter taking mf ldotherts b?ads cc~~~~~e eo d appropriating them in+~tead of handing them to ate as ach~i.nistratrix7 eu"~`~vers guts suieida of Doctor V~alter.Yau had eve As for Mrs.Ward,her awn conscience is distressi,ti her,She i~~g set for his divorce, to turn aver three articles bel inA tc 8 gncred a Newyork Ccyurt Order aa,g ~, say Ddather.She must think that she is abeve the law,But,I Ball on the Higher Law to des,1 with her.What mother could put her smn"Bud~r,crut of his ~ home before Thanksgiving with a pregnant wife? She could and did. OF a?urse, her conscience must distress her. If you are asking hod not to be God,you are asking in vain,I put all of you in His Pewer, ffiTM~rr~ If any man shall add unto these things~God shall add unto him the plagues--- and if .any rx~an shall take away from these words,God shall take away his part out of the book of life,ri~rn I am, ~~zrana Di.r~key M?ck de~3ohula Approved For Release 2001/08/23 :CIA-RDP57-003848000400020010-7