AFFIDAVIT OF JAMES D. CROWLEY
The following affidavit was executed by James D. Crowley on June 12, 1964.
AFFIDAVIT
PRESIDENT'S COMMISSION
ON THE ASSASSINATION OF
PRESIDENT JOHN F. KENNEDY
District of Columbia, ss:
James D. Crowley, being duly sworn, deposes and says:
On August 13, 1961, he was duly appointed an officer in the Department of State, as a specialist in intelligence matters; that he has continued to serve in that capacity since that time, and that he has personal knowledge of the matters related in this affidavit:
1. I am one of the officers in the Department of State responsible for disseminating throughout the Department various reports, memoranda and documents which are received from other United States Government agencies.
2. The first time I remember learning of Oswald's existence was when I received copies of a telegraphic message, dated October 10, 1963, from the Central Intelligence Agency, which contained information pertaining to his current activities. I requested that a search of the Office of Security records be made on October 11, 1963, to determine if the Department had received any information previously. Based on a quick review of the Office of Security file on Oswald, I disseminated copies of the Central Intelligence Agency message to the various offices within the Department which were interested in receiving this type of material.
3. I also briefly reviewed Oswald's Office of Security file on November 14, 1963. Although I am not certain, I believe the impetus for this review was either my receipt of a Federal Bureau of Investigation report dated October 31, 1963 on Lee Harvey Oswald or my receipt of a Federal Bureau of Investigation report dated October 25, 1963 on the Fair Play for Cuba Committee—New Orleans Division. Both of these reports were received in the Intelligence Processing Section on November 8, 1963.
4. In both instances, I reviewed the Office of Security file in a routine manner and had it returned to the Office of Security File Room the same day in which it was charged to me.
Signed this 12th day of June 1964.
(S)James D. Crowley,
James D. Crowley.
[Transcriber's Notes]
Punctuation and spelling were made consistent when a predominant preference was found in this book; otherwise they were not changed.
Misspellings in quoted evidence not changed; misspellings that could be due to mispronunciations were not changed.
Some simple typographical errors were corrected.
Inconsistent hyphenation of compound words retained.
Ambiguous end-of-line hyphens retained.
Occasional uses of "Mr." for "Mrs." and of "Mrs." for "Mr." corrected.
Dubious repeated words, (e.g., "What took place by way of of conversation?") retained.
Several unbalanced quotation marks not remedied.
Occasional periods that should be question marks not changed.
Occasional periods that should be commas, and commas that should be periods, were changed only when they clearly had been misprinted (at the end of a paragraph or following a speaker's name in small-caps at the beginning of a line). Some commas and semi-colons were printed so faintly that they appear to be periods or colons: some were found and corrected, but some almost certainly remain.
In the source for this Volume, the name "De Mohrenschildt" sometimes is printed in quoted material or Affidavits as "de Mohrenschildt" or "deMohrenschildt", and all variations have been retained here. In another Volume, which contained testimony from Mr. and Mrs. De Mohrenschildt, "De" always was capitalized and was a separate word.
Footnotes have been repositioned to immediately follow the Affidavits or other information that reference them.
The Index and illustrated Exhibits volumes of this series may not be available at Project Gutenberg.
The [Preface] and [Contents] refer to "Mrs. J. V. Allen" but the name in her [Affidavit] is "Mrs. J. U. Allen". None of these were changed here.
Page [67]: "enclosed is an envelope" probably should be "in".
Page [70]: "Mr. Pic. Is just a letter marked Exhibit No. 34." is a misprint for "Mr. Jenner."
Page [94]: "merely to with the argument" probably should be "to win".
Page [212]: "Out Intourist Guide's name" was printed that way.
Page [282]: "ribbons in here hair" was printed that way.
Page [288]: "I wasn't in her being down there at the time." was printed that way.
Page [301]: "The testimony of Maj. Eugene D. Anderson was taken" was misprinted with the initial "A" instead of "D"; changed here for consistency with other instances.
Page [373]: "put an Americano came too" possibly should be "name".
Page [437]: "from a 22 caliber rifle" was printed without a period before "22".
Page [439]: "carlot" was printed that way.
Page [473]: "Jack W. Bucham" was printed with that way, not as "Burcham".