Mr. McCloy. Let's get these years right.
Mr. Hosty. The 25th of October 1963.
Mr. Stern. Had you received any information about any other contacts with Russian officials by Lee Harvey Oswald?
Mr. Hosty. Not at that time.
Mr. Stern. What other information did you have at anytime about that?
Mr. Hosty. On November 22, after the assassination of President Kennedy, I was advised that our Washington field office of the FBI had determined that he, Lee Oswald, had been in contact with the Soviet Embassy in Washington, D.C. I learned that after the assassination.
Mr. Stern. After the assassination?
Mr. Hosty. Right, sir.
Mr. Stern. Putting that aside for the moment, what was your evaluation of Lee Harvey Oswald based on the work that you had done and the reports that you had made, the information you gathered early in November?
Mr. Hosty. Well, there were many questions to be resolved. I was quite interested in determining the nature of his contact with the Soviet Embassy in Mexico City. I had not resolved that on the 22d of November. We were still waiting to resolve that. Prior to that, I mean that would be the only thing——