signs, that that was an--that was a United States Government reservation and no photographs permitted, and he said he was recording the historical information of the aircraft for the future.
It seems that no one is actually doing this and he was claiming this date and time that the FAU 3 was a fairly new airplane. And I don't know that taking that picture would hurt. The. re have been pictures of it in Aviation Week. It still wrangled me that someone would be taking pictures when there were signs up saying not to, and I accosted him, and I got his name. And I felt that he was probably lying to me, and I got his license number of his car, also.
The next day while they were discussing the situation at work, and Michael said, regardless of the signs there, that he was standing in a public right-of-way, and anything that could be photographed from the public right-of- way he could technically, regardless of what the signs said on the fence.
If it is something super secret, they should maintain a security check and faithfully check it out.
I asked him if he thought I should go ahead and call the FBI or the security officer at the naval air station. He said, I could do what I wanted. He certainly wouldn't tell me not to. Yet at the same time it was entirely possible that the guy was a nut and doing exactly what he said he was doing, and we might cause him a lot of inconvenience and a lot of unhappiness by hollering wolf when the man had done nothing wrong. He said it would be better had I gone ahead at the time and had him arrested on the spot.
Mr. LIEBELER. You think that Michael's attitude toward calling the FBI in connection with Oswald's involvement was similar to the attitude that you explained in the situation you have just described?
Mr. KRYSTINIK. Yes; and at the same time it still is his attitude. A fellow ran into the back of his Citroen and damaged it. And I said, "Well, you got his name, serial, license number and so forth?" And he said, "No, the man said that he would pay for it." I said, "Did you call the police in the event he sues you for a broken neck?" He said, "No, I take a man at his word."
He exhibited that several times to assume him to be honest until you have good reason or absolute proof positive. He would have to see in his mind that the man had done it before he actually would bring forth civilly, because he would feel that the man was actually going to sue him before he would take measures to even protect himself. As it worked out, I don't know whether the man ever paid for fixing the back end of his car, because he drove it that way for a long time.

Mr. Liebeler.

Have you talked to Michael since he returned from Washington?

Mr. Krystinik.

Yes, sir.

Mr. Liebeler.

Did you discuss the testimony that he gave the Commission?

Mr. Krystinik.

Only in that he said that he felt that he didn't give them anything that was news to them, that he said he told them about the same thing he told the FBI and other people that had talked to him. He felt that he hadn't earned his plane ticket.

Mr. Liebeler.

He didn't discuss any of the details of the testimony?

Mr. Krystinik.

No, sir; none of the details.
At any rate, I did call the Security Officer and the naval air station in Dallas, and as it worked out, the fellow had been working for himself--seems he is out every Saturday and Sunday and that he had been checked out and is apparently a nut, rather than a Communist.
Mr. LIEBELER. Can you think of anything else that you think the Commission should know about in connection with the assassination ?

Mr. Krystinik.

Nothing in connection with the assassination.
In connection with Michael, I would almost stake my reputation on his apparent honesty. I feel he is as good, I think, in his heart as he is on .the surface.
Mr. LIEBELER. You don't think he had anything to do with the events leading up to the assassination?
Mr. KRYSTINIK. I don't feel that he had anything to do with it. I think if he had been of a more suspicious nature, he could possibly have avoided the President being shot.
He told me after the President was killed and after it had come out that

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