Mr. Liebeler.

General WALKER. As general figures, I would say he worked about 3 months for me, and he had been gone a month or two. I would have to verify these.

Mr. Liebeler.

Now the fact is that you suspected, possibly, that Duff might

have been involved in this attack on your life, didn't you?
General WALKER. I Suspected that he might be involved.

Mr. Liebeler.

And you conducted an investigation of that possibility, did you not?
General WALKER. That is correct.

Mr. Liebeler.

In connection with that investigation, two detectives from General Watts' office, one, Kester, and one, Roberts, came down to Dallas and

engaged in an investigation, did they not?
General WALKER. They did.

Mr. Liebeler.

Will you tell us about that, please?
General WALKER. They were in and out, as I remember, in the investigation, and in contact with my house from time to time during it, and even drove Duff around in a car, finally, and he explained how he would have shot at me if he had intended to, or if he had any such intentions.
General WATTS. I got a call--I don't remember the exact date but I do have a record of it. I got a call from Mrs. Kenecht in General Walker's office to the effect that an anonymous telephone call came in from some lady who advised Mrs. Kenecht that this boy Duff had been going with the lady's daughter and had bragged to the daughter that he had been in on the shooting at General Walker.
So I sent these two investigators whose names were just mentioned, connected with our office. They are ex- detectives or policemen from the Oklahoma City Police Department and do freelance investigating. I sent them down here with a tape recorder to verify as much as they could from Duff, because we were very apprehensive that he might take another shot at Walker.
We couldn't get Duff to admit that he actually fired the shot, but he professed to readiness to stage another attempt if someone would raise $5,000. It is my-recollection that the tape recording was turned over to .the Dallas Police Department.

Mr. Liebeler.

Let me ask: Were you, General Walker, generally familiar with the events at the time, and reports were made to you about the progress?
General WALKER. I was familiar with the progress of the investigation and got a final copy of it. I thought it solved nothing, but Duff was telling his usual lies.

Mr. Liebeler.

General Watts' description of these events is accurate, to the best of your knowledge; is that correct?
General WALKER. That is correct, except that I do not agree with General Watts' statement that Duff had implicated himself in the attack on me by statements to the daughter of this woman who called Mrs. Kenecht. My information is only to the effect that the girls mother was upset about her daughter's friendship with Duff. As far as I .know, she never said that Duff admitted being involved in the attack on me that occurred on April 10, 1963.

Mr. Liebeler.

General Watts, you indicated you had some additional information on Mr. Duff.
General WATTS. Yes; one Friday evening--I could get the exact date I was dictating in my bedroom at home, and I looked up and there stood Duff whom I hadn't seen since he had worked at General Walker's, but whom we had investigated, and he told me a rather weird story.
He had gone to the Army and was stationed at Fort Sill, and immediately after the assassination he was interrogated by personnel from the Justice Department and was charged with fraudulent enlistment, according to him. He had failed to enter on his enlistment papers that he had worked for General Walker, and when it became known that he had worked for General Walker, he was charged with fraudulent enlistment along in December 1963, and his pay cut off.
He professed to me that he had been living at Fort Sill, although not under arrest, but without pay since the previous December, and had no funds, and was about to be discharged. So in order to keep tab on him, I arranged for him to get a job with a friend, Paul Blakeley, for whom he worked for a short