Mr. Hosty.

had remained behind and then disappeared the next day. I was requested to attempt to locate Lee and Marina Oswald.

Mr. Stern.

Did the request come to you personally?

Mr. Hosty.

To the Dallas office, and the case was then reopened to me. Dallas was an auxiliary office to New Orleans, and it was reopened. I had previously handled the case. It was reopened and assigned to me.

Mr. Stern.

And by what office?

Mr. Hosty.

By the Dallas office, reopened the case in Dallas.

Mr. Stern.

By the supervisor?

Mr. Hosty.

Supervisor of our squad, yes.

Mr. Stern.

And what squad is that?

Mr. Hosty.

The internal security squad.

Mr. Stern.

What did you do on October 3 and thereafter?

Mr. Hosty.

Well, there wasn't too much to go on, just a woman driving a station wagon with a Texas license plate. I went to the immigration office to check to see if they had any information, tried to determine if we had any persons around the area, I tried to think of anyone who spoke Russian who had a station wagon and who was a friend of Marina Oswald's. I went to Fort Worth and checked in his old neighborhood, Lee and Marina's old neighborhood, attempted to locate Robert Oswald, his brother, and determined that Robert Oswald had left the Fort Worth area, had moved to Arkansas.
I then sent out a lead to the Little Rock office which covered the area of Malvern, Ark., where Robert Oswald was living, and requested that he be contacted to see if he knew where Lee Oswald was. Then I continued checking through the Dallas and Fort Worth area attempting to determine if the Oswalds had returned to the Dallas or Fort Worth areas.

Mr. Stern.

Was this a usual or unusual amount of effort?

Mr. Hosty.

I would say usual amount. I went to neighborhoods where I knew they had been, checked with relatives who had previously been cooperative, just the usual.

Mr. Stern.

Was there any notion of urgency in locating him that you got from the New Orleans office?

Mr. Hosty.

No particular note of urgency. Just to let me know that he had left and be on the alert for him.

Mr. Stern.

Did they tell you anything about what he had been doing in New Orleans?

Mr. Hosty.

Not at that time.

Mr. Stern.

Did you have any information apart from what you knew before he moved to New Orleans at that time?

Mr. Hosty.

Well, I had leaned before we had referred the case to New Orleans that he had been engaged in this Fair Play for Cuba Committee work down in New Orleans. They had told us that. We were aware that he was in contact with the Fair Play for Cuba Committee in New York. That was about all at this time.

Mr. Stern.

You learned this from the New Orleans office?

Mr. Hosty.

Right.

Mr. Stern.

What next happened in your effort to locate him?

Mr. Hosty.

I then received a communication on the 25th of October from the New Orleans office advising me that another agency had determined that Lee Oswald was in contact with the Soviet Embassy in Mexico City in the early part of October 1963.

Mr. Stern.

Did they tell you anything else?

Mr. Hosty.

No. Just very briefly that there had been a contact.

Mr. Stern.

Did this increase your effort to find him?

Mr. Hosty.

Very much so, yes. I became curious then. Shortly thereafter, on the 29th of October, I received another communication from the New Orleans office advising that they had a change of address for Lee and Marina Oswald to 2515 West Fifth Street, Irving, Tex.

Mr. Stern.

You received that information when?

Mr. Hosty.

On the 29th of October.

Mr. Stern.

What did you do then?

Mr. Hosty.

Well, I went to--I checked the Dallas crisscross. Unfortunately