Mr. Mccloy.

Would you be able to identify these cards if you saw them, Mr. Quigley, as the ones that were shown in Oswald's possession exhibited to you?

Mr. Quigley.

I don't believe I could truthfully say if you showed me a card, these two cards now that those were the identical ones.
From the description and the data that I have recorded I could say they were similar.

Mr. Mccloy.

All right.

Mr. Quigley.

I don't just feel I could identify them. Bear this in mind, sir; this material was evidence as far as the New Orleans Police Department was concerned at the time, we couldn't take this material.

Mr. Mccloy.

I understand.

Mr. Dulles.

Did you say that some of it was turned over to the Secret Service?

Mr. Quigley.

No, sir; not to my knowledge.

Mr. Dulles.

Not this material?

Mr. Quigley.

Not to my knowledge, sir.

Mr. Stern.

Did Oswald answer all the questions you put to him in the course of your interview?

Mr. Quigley.

I am sorry.

Mr. Stern.

Did Oswald answer all the questions you put to him in the course of your interview?

Mr. Quigley.

No; he did not answer all of them.

Mr. Stern.

Do you recall the nature of the questions he didn't want to answer or he evaded?
(At this point Mr. McCloy left the hearing room.)

Mr. Quigley.

When I began asking him specific details with respect to his activities in the Fair Play for Cuba Committee in New Orleans as to where meetings were held, who was involved, what occurred, he was reticent to furnish information, reluctant and actually as far as I was concerned, was completely evasive on them.

Mr. Stern.

Did he tell you why he had requested the interview?

Mr. Quigley.

No; he did not, sir.

Mr. Stern.

Did you form any impression as to why he had requested the interview?

Mr. Quigley.

Well, he was in police custody at the time, involved in a disturbing of the peace charge, was becoming involved in a fight with three Cubans on the street in the distribution of Fair Play for Cuba literature. I felt that he was probably making a self-serving statement in attempting to explain to me why he was distributing this literature, and for no other reason, and when I got to questioning him further then he felt that his purpose had been served and he wouldn't say anything further.

Mr. Stern.

Why do you think it might have been important for him to explain to you what he was doing----

Mr. Quigley.

Well----

Mr. Stern.

Or to an FBI agent?

Mr. Quigley.

Well, he is in custody--this I cannot answer you. You ask me what I thought, this is what my feeling was on the matter. His actual motive, I really wouldn't have any idea.

Mr. Stern.

Is there any possibility that he was trying to give the New Orleans police the idea that he was working for or with the FBI?

Mr. Quigley.

Not to my knowledge, sir; no.

Mr. Stern.

None of his conduct went in that direction?

Mr. Quigley.

No; he certainly, to my knowledge, never advised the New Orleans police of this. As a matter of fact, he, during the course of the interview with Lieutenant Martello, made a fiat statement that he would like to talk to an FBI agent, which is not an unusual situation. Frequently persons who are in custody of local authorities would like to talk to the FBI.

The Chairman.

Is that so?

Mr. Quigley.

That is true, sir. Many times people don't really understand what the FBI Jurisdiction is. They feel we handle a multitude of things which we don't. We are happy to talk with them, we record the information, and if we can be of assistance, we are, and if we cannot be of assistance we tell them we cannot and we explain to them why we can't be of assistance.