Mr. Oliver.

Let me confer for just a second.
(Conferring with counsel.)

Mr. Unger.

We think under the circumstances that that is beyond the right of the Commission to inquire and beyond the scope of this hearing and, therefore, the witness on my recommendation declines to answer.

Mr. Jenner.

All right. Was this statement other than deduction on your part?

Mr. Unger.

Well, the same objection. I think if you were to Just go through a list of other than you would eventually arrive at the same objectionable conclusion. So we object to that.

Mr. Jenner.

All right. What were your sources upon which you based this statement?

Mr. Unger.

Same objection.

Mr. Jenner.

Did you have any sources other than the sources you have indicated in your testimony up to the moment ?

Mr. Unger.

Same objection.

Mr. Jenner.

Was the paragraph I read deduction only or did you have some source on which you relied.

Mr. Unger.

The same objection. Let me say for the record that, despite the hurt feelings of the members of the Commission, I don't believe they have a proper right to inquire into attacks that were made upon them. I can't see any relevancy at all to that.

Mr. Jenner.

I do wish to say for the record that the Commission, no member of the Commission, has any hurt feelings whatsoever with respect to this article or any statement in it.
On page 26 you state:
"One writer has recently suggested that it was the CIA that arranged the assassination of President Kennedy; I know of no evidence to support that opinion. But obviously Mr. Dulles' CIA is open to suspicion." Who is the writer to which you have reference?

Mr. Oliver.

I do not recall. I wrote this, of course, in December, I wouldn't want to recall now who said it. I have the impression that this was in some one of the innumerable magazine articles about the assassination of the President but I would not want to say which one.

Mr. Jenner.

All right. Did I gather from your response that your article was written in December of 1963 ?

Mr. Oliver.

It was--I did most of the work in that during the Christmas vacation which, of course, would run into January.

Mr. Jenner.

Well, except for the runover into January the article was prepared by you in December, in the Christmas holiday period, school holiday period which commences, well, usually around December 20 and runs over into New Year's Day?

Mr. Oliver.

Yes; I very unwillingly sacrificed my holiday which I needed for a quite different purpose. I do not exclude the possibility that I might' possibly have made some changes by telephone, but I do not recall any. I wouldn't want to swear that I did not, however.

Mr. Jenner.

I take it then that after you prepared the article during the

Christmas holidays you submitted it to American Opinion for publication?

Mr. Oliver.

Yes; sent it in.

Mr. Jenner.

You may have made some telephone changes or editorial modifications ?

Mr. Oliver.

I would not want to swear that I had not, I do do that sometimes.

Mr. Jenner.

But they were not of a character that you can recall at the moment?

Mr. Oliver.

No.

Mr. Jenner.

Commencing in the right-hand column on page 26 you relate a series of numbered paragraphs, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, to the conclusion of the article on page 28. Do you have those?

Mr. Oliver.

Yes.

Mr. Jenner.

Are those deductions rather than statements based on newspaper or other sources of the nature and character you have already related?

Mr. Oliver.

Those are deductions.