Mrs. Odio.

how people were afraid at the time, and my company, some officials of it were quite concerned that the FBI should have come to see me.

Mr. Liebeler.

Have you discussed with Alentado these two men and how they came to see you?

Mrs. Odio.

I never talked to him about it. I decided not to. mention anything after the FBI came to see me, because I thought they were going to contact him. I think I gave them the address and the telephone number. Mr. LIEBELER. You gave that to the FBI?

Mrs. Odio.

Yes. He actually wouldn't know anything about it.

Mr. Liebeler.

You say that because you asked these men if they had been sent by Alentado and they said no?

Mrs. Odio.

That's right.

Mr. Liebeler.

Mrs. Connell that you refer to is Mrs. C. L. Connell, is that correct?

Mrs. Odio.

Yes.

Mr. Liebeler.

How do you know her?

Mrs. Odio.

It is a strange thing. Everything that has happened to me in the past year has been very strange. But I came from Ponce because I was mentally sick at the time. I was very emotionally disturbed, and they thought that a change from Puerto Rico to Dallas where my sister was would improve me, which it did, of course. And I was supposed to see Dr. Cowley in Terrell. He is a Cuban psychiatrist, but he was busy at the time and he couldn't help me. Mrs. Connell belonged to the mental health and at the time she had helped the Cuban group some because they had money, and I was introduced by my sister.

Mr. Liebeler.

Which one?

Mrs. Odio.

Sarita. She actually sent part of the money for my trip to come here to Dallas.

Mr. Liebeler.

Mrs. Connell?

Mrs. Odio.

Yes. So I met her. We became very, very close friends, extremely close, and she talked to Dr. Stubblefield and she got me a psychiatrist which was Dr. Einspruck. I was here 4 months before I went to get my children. We were close, like I said.

Mr. Liebeler.

What makes you think she called the FBI about this?

Mrs. Odio.

I am not certain of this, but I did discuss this with her after it happened, because I trusted her completely. I discussed it and told her that I was frightened, I didn't know what to do. I did not know if it was anything of importance that I should tell the FBI. And I was the only person--she was the only person I told.

Mr. Liebeler.

Did you tell Dr. Einspruch about it?

Mrs. Odio.

Yes; but the things you talk with a doctor in an office, he will tell you before that he is going to say it. He would have told me, "I am going to tell the FBI." You have to trust a doctor, especially a psychiatrist. I know they talked to him later, but I don't think it was him that called the FBI.

Mr. Liebeler.

Did you tell Mrs. Connell that you had seen Oswald at some anti-Castro meetings, and that he had made some talks to these groups of refugees, and that he was very brilliant and clever and captivated the people to whom he had spoken?

Mrs. Odio.

No.

Mr. Liebeler.

You are sure you never told her that?

Mrs. Odio.

No.

Mr. Liebeler.

Have you ever seen Oswald at any meetings?

Mrs. Odio.

Never. This is something when you talk to somebody, she probably was referring--we did have some meetings, yes. John Martino spoke, who was an American, who was very clever and brilliant. I am not saying that she is lying at all. When you are excited, you might get all your facts mixed up, and Martino was one of the men who was in Isle of Pines for 3 years. And he mentioned the fact that he knew Mr. Odio, that Mr. Odio's daughters were in Dallas, and she went to that meeting. I did not go, because they kept it quiet from me so I would not get upset about it. I don't know if you know who John Martino is.

Mr. Liebeler.

Is that the same man as Johnny Martin?