Mr. Jenner.

That is, the sentence commencing at the bottom of page 13 of Oliver Exhibit No. 2 and concluding at the top of the right-hand column.

Mr. Oliver.

I strongly imagine that most of the details regarding Oswald's

return to this country are to be found in the news clippings here.

Mr. Jenner.

In Commission Exhibit No. 1015?

Mr. Oliver.

Right.

Mr. Jenner.

And that is the source that you considered?

Mr. Oliver.

That and similar news clippings. I would not want to say they were all in this collection.

Mr. Jenner.

I don't wish to put those words in your mouth either, but those

are the sources upon which you base the statement?

Mr. Oliver.

Right.

Mr. Jenner.

Does that include the statement that he and his wife "were brought to the United States by our Communist-dominated State Department."
I am seeking here to emphasize only the point of your statement that they were brought to the United States by the State Department.

Mr. Oliver.

They were brought in the sense that they were given passports and that their passage was paid for with money from the State Department in the sum of something less than $500 as I remember it.

Mr. Jenner.

Monies advanced by the State Department. You are aware those monies were repaid ?

Mr. Oliver.

I do not know whether they were repaid or not. I believe that I have heard that they were never repaid. But that is something I certainly would not say without a checking.

Mr. Jenner.

Well, just for your information they were repaid by January of 1963.

Mr. Oliver.

They were. May I further ask whether it is known from what source they were repaid?

Mr. Jenner.

Yes, sir; when the report is published this month you will see it.

Mr. Oliver.

Very good.

Mr. Jenner.

Your statement that he was brought back or permitted to come back in open violation of American law is a statement of your opinion only, I take it?

Mr. Oliver.

Of my opinion, based, I believe, on the import of legislation intended to prevent the coming of known Communists to this country.

Mr. Jenner.

It is your interpretation of Federal statutes and regulations?

Mr. Oliver.

That is right.

Mr. Jenner.

Then you continue in your article in the right-hand column on page 13, "Upon his arrival in this country Oswald took up his duties as an agent of the conspiracy, conspiracy with a cap C, spying on anti-Communist Cuban refugees, serving as an agitator for Fair Play for Cuba, and participating in some of the many other forms of subversion that flourish openly in the defiance of law through the connivance of the Attorney General, Robert F. Kennedy."
Here again, I take it, your statement that he was an agent and he took up duties as an agent of the conspiracy, was the same source you relied upon in connection with the previous sentence that he was a Communist agent.

Mr. Oliver.

Yes. In the sense that, this spying on Cuban refugees could scarcely have had any other purposes. Fair Play for Cuba is very obviously a Communist enterprise.

Mr. Jenner.

This statement, in turn, is based on newspaper reports and radio broadcasts or television broadcasts, as the case may be?

Mr. Oliver.

Yes. I should perhaps add, yes; that I heard a personal account in, as I recall, Tulsa, 0kla., from a man who was connected with a Cuban group that Oswald tried to infiltrate.

Mr. Jenner.

Was that Carlos Bringuier?

Mr. Oliver.

Bringuier, I believe so, yes. And I also heard from the publisher
of the Independent American of an attempt by Oswald to obtain employment on that newspaper.

Mr. Jenner.

Would you identify that person, please?

Mr. Oliver.

The Independent American is a newspaper published by Kent Courtney, or I should say edited by Kent Courtney, in New Orleans.
It is C-o-u-r-t-n-e-y.