Mr. Liebeler. This was in 1957 or 1958?
Mr. Delgado. 1958. And we had basic interests. He liked Spanish, and he talked to me for a while in Spanish or tried to, and since nobody bothered, you know—I was kind of a loner, myself, you know. I didn't associate with too many people.
Mr. Liebeler. How old were you at that time?
Mr. Delgado. I was 17—18 years of age; 17 or 18.
Mr. Liebeler. About the same age as Oswald?
Mr. Delgado. Right. He was the same age as I was. And nothing really developed until I went on leave——oh, yes. At the time he was—he was commenting on the fight that Castro was having at Sierra Madres at the beginning, just about the turn of 1959. When I went on leave, it just so happened that my leave coincided with the first of January, when Castro took over. So when I got back, he was the first one to see me, and he said, "Well, you took a leave and went there and helped them, and they all took over." It was a big joke.
So we got along pretty well. He had trouble in one of the huts, and he got transferred to mine.
Mr. Liebeler. Do you know what trouble he had in the other hut?
Mr. Delgado. Well, the way I understand it, he wouldn't hold his own. Came time for cleanup, and general cleanliness of the barracks, he didn't want to participate, and he would be griping all the time. So the sergeant that was in charge of that hut asked to have him put out, you know. So consequently, they put him into my hut.
Mr. Liebeler. What were these huts? Were they quonset huts?