(Testimony of Nelson Delgado)
Mr. Liebeler.
Did you have any reason to believe that these things came to Oswald from the Cuban consulate?
Mr. Delgado.
Well, I took it for granted that they did after I seen the envelope, you know.
Mr. Liebeler.
What was on this envelope that made you think that?
Mr. Delgado.
Something like a Mexican eagle, with a big, impressive seal, you know. They had different colors on it, red and white; almost looked like our colors, you know. But I can't recall the seal. I just knew it was in Latin, United, something like that. I couldn't understand. It was Latin.
Mr. Liebeler.
You don't know for sure whether it was from the Cuban consulate?
Mr. Delgado.
No. But he had told me prior, just before I found that envelope in his wall locker, that he was receiving mail from them, and one time he offered to show it to me, but I wasn't much interested because at the time we had work to do, and I never did ask to see that paper again, you know.
Mr. Liebeler.
Did he tell you what his correspondence with the Cuban consulate was about?
Mr. Delgado.
No; he didn't.
Mr. Liebeler.
Did he ever indicate to you that it had to do with the conversation that you had about going over to Cuba?
Mr. Delgado.
No. The only thing he told me was that right after he had this conversation with the Cuban people was that he was going to---once he got out of the service he was going to Switzerland, he was going to a school, and this school in Switzerland was supposed to teach him in 2 years--in 6 months what it had taken him to learn in psychology over here in 2 years, something like that.
Mr. Liebeler.
Did he tell you the name of the school?
Mr. Delgado.
No; but he applied for it while in the service, and as far as I knew, that's where he was going once he got discharged.
Mr. Liebeler.
This conversation that you and Oswald had about going over in Cuba and helping Castro was just barracks talk?
Mr. Delgado.
Right.
Mr. Liebeler.
You didn't seriously consider----
Mr. Delgado.
No; but that's when I started getting scared. He started actually making plans, and how we would go about going to Cuba, you know, and where we would apply to go to Cuba and the people to contact if we wanted to go, you know, but----
Mr. Liebeler.
So you got the impression that he started to get serious about going to Cuba?
Mr. Delgado.
Yes. And about this time Castro started changing colors, so I wasn't too keen on that idea, myself.
Mr. Liebeler.
Did you talk to Oswald about this change in Castro's attitude and his approach?
Mr. Delgado.
Right. He said that was all due to mal--bad newspaper reporting, that we were distorting the true facts, and for the same reason I told you that, because we were mad, because now we wasn't getting the money from Cuba that we were before.
Mr. Liebeler.
So Oswald basically took the position that you were getting a distorted view of Cuba?
Mr. Delgado.
Right; and we weren't getting the true facts of what was happening in Cuba. We were getting the distorted facts.
Mr. Liebeler.
You have no definite way of knowing how much correspondence Oswald received from the Cuban consulate, do you?
Mr. Delgado.
No.
Mr. Liebeler.
He told you that he had received some correspondence?
Mr. Delgado.
Right.
Mr. Liebeler.
You don't know whether the Russian newspaper that he got came from the Cuban consulate?
Mr. Delgado.
No. He was getting that way before he even started corresponding with them.
Mr. Liebeler.
Do you know whether Oswald ever received any books or pamphlets or materials in any language other than Russian---aside from English, of course?
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