investigate the assassination of President John Fitzgerald Kennedy; the Executive Order No. 11130, President Lyndon Johnson--which brought the Commission actually into existence and appointed the Commissioners and fixed their powers and duties and obligations. And, also, a copy of the rules and regulations adopted by the Commission for the taking of testimony before the Commission, and by deposition.
Mr. DE MOHRENSCHILDT. Are you a representative of the Commission?

Mr. Jenner.

Yes.
Mr. DE MOHRENSCHILDT. A lawyer for the Commission?

Mr. Jenner.

I will state it in a moment.
I am Albert E. Jenner, Jr., member of the legal staff of the Commission, and have prepared to make inquiry of you with respect to the subject matter with which the Commission is charged.
In general, as you have noted from the documents enclosed with Mr. Rankin's letter, the Commission is charged with the investigation and the assembling of facts respecting the assassination of President John F. Kennedy on the 22d of November 1963, the events that followed that assassination, and all matters before and after that are deemed by the Commission relevant to its obligations.
In pursuing these lines of inquiry, which we have been doing now for some months, we have examined before the Commission and by way of deposition various people who, by pure happenstance in the course of their lives, came into contact either with Lee Harvey Oswald or Marina Oswald, or others who had some relation with them. And in the course of our investigation, we have learned that you and Mrs. De Mohrenschildt befriended the Oswalds at one time, and had some other contact with them.
As you realize, there are rumors and speculations of various people who do not know what the facts are--some of them know bits of the facts--which require us in many instances to inquire into matters that are largely personal. We are not doing so merely because we are curious.
I will confine myself to matters that we believe to be relevant. It may not always be apparent to you, because we know a great deal more, of course, than any one witness would know.
Mr. DE MOHRENSCHILDT. You know, this affair actually is hurting me quite a lot, particularly right now in Haiti, because President Duvalier--I have a contract with the Government.

Mr. Jenner.

Yes; I want to inquire on that.

Mr. De.

MOHRENSCHILDT. They got wind I am called by the Warren committee. Nobody knows how it happened. And now he associates me, being very scared of assassination, with a staff of international assassins, and I am about to be expelled from the country. My contract may be broken.
So I discussed that with our Ambassador there, Mr. Timmons, and he said, of course, it sounds ridiculous, but he will try to do his best.
Supposedly, President Duvalier received a letter from Washington. Now, this is unofficial---one of the ministers informed me of that--in which this letter states that I was a very close friend of Oswald's, that I am a Polish Communist and a member of an international band.

Mr. Jenner.

I would say that you are misinformed on that.
Mr. DE MOHRENSCHILDT. Well, he did receive some kind of a letter.

Mr. Jenner.

But nothing that would contain any such statements.
Mr. DE MOHRENSCHILDT. Well, I don't know from whom. Some kind of a letter he received from someone.

Mr. Jenner.

It may have been a crank letter.
Mr. DE MOHRENSCHILDT. What is that?

Mr. Jenner.

It may have been a crank letter, but nothing official.
Mr. DE MOHRENSCHILDT. Yes; I am sure it is nothing official. I am sure it could not have been anything official.
I hope Mr. Timmons will investigate it. Because, naturally, the Minister of Finance of Haiti tells me that it is an official letter and seems to indicate that it comes from the FBI. But I just doubt it, personally. Probably a crank letter. I do not have an extraordinary admiration for the FBI. But, frankly, I don't think they would do anything like that, you know.

Mr. Jenner.

They don't go around making official----

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