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(Testimony of Vincent T. Lee)
Mr. Lee.
one with the other. This--yes, yes. This evidently is a letter which was sent in reply, after I had--he had in one letter asked for information about the possibilities of doing--setting up a chapter, for which I had sent him the rules and regulations regarding the functioning of our organization and copies of our constitution and bylaws and things like that. This evidently is a letter which he wrote in which he replies that he had gone ahead and acted on his own without any authorization from the organization, and if I recall correctly this was also a letter which was received by myself in my capacity, not having any great happiness at somebody going off on their own and doing something against the rules of the organization, under the name of the organization, which is obviously what was done, because this set up himself--this thing reads. "New Orleans Chapter, Member Branch." There was no such thing, because he had just received--just previous to this he had received the regulations, and my letter would give an indication of what would be necessary to set up a chapter, which would certainly consist of more than one person operating on his own, and this, if I recall correctly, was such a letter which I received.
Naturally, anybody in an organization position such as I was in any other organization, you would always be interested in expanding and getting your ideas across and reaching more people, and when somebody writes to you and says they would like to help you, your immediate response is, "Well, wonderful. Here is a new contact in a new part of the hinterlands and, gee, I hope this works out." And then, when somebody goes off like this, violating all the rules that you send him, it comes as quite a disappointment, because you have had hopes. Obviously this man was not operating in an official capacity for the organization. As he states, he went off with his own innovations and everything else.
Mr. Rankin.
You will note that he refers in the letter to this throw sheet.
Mr. Lee.
Yes.
Mr. Rankin.
And the fact that he has established a charter in violation of your instructions.
Mr. Lee.
Yes. I certainly do.
Mr. Rankin.
And then he also refers to his membership blank.
Mr. Lee.
Yes, which is another complete violation. It has no----
Mr. Rankin.
Apparently both of those were enclosed with a letter, were they?
Mr. Lee.
Evidently, yes. To the best of my recollection, they would be. As I say, all of these details--I can't be positive of every little thing, because it's been such a time and so much has transpired in between.
Mr. Rankin.
Exhibit No. 5 is apparently a letter of August 1 from Lee Harvey Oswald. Do you recall that?
Mr. Lee.
There was a couple of letters here. I don't know whether it was these two, Exhibits 4 and 5, but it's hard for me to determine, they came so close together. They came, you know, almost on top of each other, to the best of my recollection, that I don't know which one only by studying the text can you halfway determine which came first. I remember vaguely receiving these communications in this order.
You see here, another case where I mentioned, and I would recommend not trying to get an office to start off with, particularly the--what was being espoused by our organization wouldn't be the most popular thing in the area of New Orleans, Louisiana, and I would automatically, myself, personally, from my own experience, would say to anybody, "You know, you better be way ahead before you start something like that," and certainly he has gone ahead against all of that recommendation from everybody else. But to the best of my recollection, these letters were very close together, about the same time, the same issue.
Mr. Rankin.
That was one of the letters, Exhibit No. 5, that you supplied the FBI at the time?
Mr. Lee.
Yes.
(Document marked Lee Exhibit No. 6.)
Mr. Rankin.
Your Exhibit No. 6, which apparently is composed of a letter and an affidavit in regard to a charge against Lee Harvey Oswald, and a clipping in regard to the disposition of that charge, do you recall that correspondence and the attachments?
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