(Testimony of Prof. Revilo Pendleton Oliver)
Mr. Oliver.
this supposed corporation with an officer in the fictitious corporation that was set up to cover Radio Swan.
Mr. Jenner.
Cover what?
Mr. Oliver.
Radio Swan, which has since been admitted to be a CIA operation.
I then continue, "They contrived and financed the assassination of anti-Communists in other parts of the world, notably General Trujillo in the Dominican Republic."
That is based--I interpolate now,--that is based primarily on the assertions of General Espaillat in his book "Trujillo, the Last of the Caesars."
I may say at the time of the assassination of General Trujillo I referred from the facts that the only people who could have arranged it were either the CIA or the Soviet secret police.
Then I continue. "And there seems to be no good reason for supposing that it could not use your money to carry out assassinations in the Communist interest in the country."
Mr. Jenner.
The "it" is what, CIA?
Mr. Oliver.
. CIA.
Mr. Jenner.
Is that a conclusion you reach or is that 'based--what is your source of that statement?
Mr. Oliver.
Well, that is a conclusion that I reach primarily on the grounds that if you carry out assassinations abroad you may carry them out at home, and secondarily on the suspicions which obviously can be no more than suspicions, concerning the death of Povl Bang-Jensen.
Mr. Jenner.
I will ask you who is he, in my ignorance I will ask you if you can identify him?
Mr. Oliver.
He is the member of the United Nations staff who attempted to communicate to the Central Intelligence Agency the names of certain Soviet agents in the United Nations who were, (A) willing to defect, in fact eager to do that; and (B) willing to identify agents of the Soviet Secret Police in the State Department and CIA. He is reported to have communicated his information in confidence to an officer of the CIA and very shortly thereafter he met his death in what was called a suicide although most improbably such. The CIA is reported to have been shadowing him at the time of his death.
On those principal data, my statement here is an inference. If they can assassinate General Trujillo in the Dominican Republic there is nothing impossible about their doing something similar on American soil.
I continued. "But what Joesten's poisonous book is trying to tell its readers--liberal intellectuals is that Kennedy was really assassinated by the wicked Fascist police of Dallas. Texas, who then framed sweet little Oswald to conceal their crime. And the author all but says outright that those awful 'Fascist' police are agents of the John Birch Society and General Walker." I think that is sufficient.
Mr. Jenner.
As I recall, I am not attempting to quote this, all I did was make a cryptic note. somewhere, in what you have just read the substance is "But I hear that he was" that is, that he was paid by the CIA. Would you find that spot in your quote.
Mr. Oliver.
The exact quotation is, "I do not know whether Oswald was paid by the CIA but I hear there was testimony before the Warren Commission that he was."
Mr. Jenner.
And from what source, on what source did you base the statement that you heard that there was testimony before the Warren Commission that he was?
Mr. Oliver.
Principally, although not exclusively, an article, again by Henshaw in the National Enquirer at about the time that Earl Warren made his statement that the findings would not be released during the lifetime of the people then living.
Mr. Jenner.
If you will pardon my correcting you. even that newspaper account didn't say that the Chief Justice said that the findings of the Commission would not be released.
Mr. Oliver.
That the "full truth"wasn't that it?
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