(Testimony of Prof. Revilo Pendleton Oliver)
Mr. Jenner.
OLIVER. That is right.
JENNER. Of Dallas, Tex.
Mr. Oliver.
I believe he is president.
Mr. Jenner.
He has so testified. When you first mentioned this document it didn't click with me, but now I recall. It is tail, newspaper-sized yellow covered--
Mr. Oliver.
Document.
Mr. Jenner.
Document. (Discussion off the record. )
Mr. Jenner.
Mr. Reporter, that has been received in evidence as Commission Exhibit No. 1015. If you have a copy with you in your bag, Doctor, would you please get it out and then refer me to the page ?
Mr. Oliver.
Yes.
Mr. Jenner.
Please make your references to the Commission Exhibit No. 1015 and the record will be much clearer.
Mr. Oliver.
That is, the Commission Exhibit No. 1015 is the American Eagle reprint?
Mr. Jenner.
That is right. You will notice, if you will turn to the back page Doctor, that Robert Surrey is listed as president of the American Eagle Publishing Co.
Mr. Oliver.
Right
Mr. Jenner.
Would you have the record show, Mr. Reporter that Dr. Oliver is now examining a copy of Commission Exhibit No. 1015 to see if he can locate the news source on which he based the statement in Oliver Exhibit 2 that Oswald took with him the operational codes of the Marine Corps and sufficient other secrets as a fledgling traitor had been able to steal in the military service.
Mr. Jenner.
All right, Doctor. Would you identify the page if you have located it?
Mr. Oliver.
This is the page of reprints from the Dallas Morning News with the date 12/4 at the very top of the page In heavy writing.
Mr. Jenner.
We are now looking at the back of page 12. It has a dateline Wednesday, December 4, 1963. You are referring, sir, to a particular item?
Mr. Oliver.
Yes.
Mr. Jenner.
Would you read the headline?
Mr. Oliver.
This particular item is an Associated Press Dispatch, and in this paper is headlined, "Oswald a 'wise guy,' ex-Marine officer says." And in it, John E. Donovan, a former Marine officer, is reported as saying, the Oswald's defection "compromised all our secret radio frequencies, call signs and authentication codes. He knew the location of every unit on the west coast, and the radar capability of every installation. We had to spend thousands of man-hours changing everything, all the technical frequencies"-"all the tactical frequencies," I am sorry--"and verify the destruction of all of the codes." That I regard as the significant part of the statement.
Mr. Jenner.
Is there any other newspaper clipping contained in Commission Exhibit No. 1015 upon which you relied in making the statement in question or to which I have referred in part 1 of your statement?
Mr. Oliver.
It is possible that the same dispatch is reproduced from another newspaper also in this document, but to the best of my recollection it would be the same in both.
Mr. Jenner.
So it is a fair statement that the quotation I read into the record from your article was based upon that news report of Officer Donovan's statement or a repetition of that news item in some other newspaper ?
Mr. Oliver.
Right.
Mr. Jenner.
And no other source?
Mr. Oliver.
Yes.
Mr. Jenner.
No other source meaning yes, there was no other source?
Mr. Oliver.
Meaning there was no other source.
Mr. Jenner.
Then, follow me in your article again. You say a sentence later, "He was then trained" the "he" referrig to Lee Harvey Oswald, "in sabotage, terrorism and guerrilla warfare (including accurate shooting from ambush) in the well-known school for international criminals near Minsk, and while
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