Mr. Liebeler. Yes. You and Oswald finally began to cool off toward each other a little bit; is that right?
Mr. Delgado. Yes.
Mr. Liebeler. How did that come about?
Mr. Delgado. Well, like I said, his ideas about Castro kept on persisting in the same way as at the beginning, when evidence was being shown that Castro was reverting to a Communist way of government, you know, and secret state, secret police state, and the turning point came about when there was this one corporal Batista had in his army, very thin, small fellow, and he had no significant job whatsoever, he was just a corporal in the army, and because of the fact that a lady stepped forward at the tribunal and said that this corporal was in charge of mass murdering all these people, that Batista was supposed to have done away with, they executed him on the pure fact of one lady's statement with no proof whatsoever.
So I brought that to his attention and he said, "Well, in all new governments some errors have to occur, but you can be sure that, something like this was investigated prior to his execution but you will never know about it because they won't publicize that hearing," you know.
I couldn't see that, what was happening over there then, when they started executing these people on just mere word of mouth.
Batista executed them when he had them, a regular blood bath going on there. But that's when I started cooling off, and he started getting more reverent toward Castro, he started thinking higher——
Mr. Liebeler. More highly?
Mr. Delgado. Yes; more highly of Castro than I did, and about a month later I was on leave, and when I came back he was gone. And it must have been a fast processing, because I wasn't gone over 15 days; when I come back he was already gone.
Mr. Liebeler. Did you and Oswald stay in the same hut together until he actually got out of the Marines?