Mr. Donovan. Yes—but, on the other hand, so did Time Magazine at that time. Harvard accepted him de facto, at face value—which is one of our better schools, I suppose. At any rate, what he said about Castro was not an unpopular belief at that time.
Mr. Ely. What did he say?
Mr. Donovan. I don't recall any particulars, except that it was a godsend that somebody had overthrown Batista.
Mr. Ely. Did he ever express to you any desire that he personally would take part in clearing up injustices, either in Cuba or anywhere else?
Mr. Donovan. He not only never said it to me, I never heard of him saying it to anyone else.
Mr. Ely. Based on your observation of men throughout your military career, would you say that Oswald constituted a typical case of someone whose interests were different from the rest of the enlisted men? Do you think that his loneliness, his desire to be alone, exceeded that, or would you say it was a more or less normal thing for somebody interested in other things?
Mr. Donovan. Most young men in the Marine Corps, I suppose in all services, have the common bond that they want to get out. He certainly shared that common bond with them. I think that was his only common bond. I don't believe he shared an equal interest in sports. I don't think he shared an equal intense interest in girls. And although I believe he drank, sometimes to excess, I don't believe that he shared even that companionship with them consistently.
Mr. Ely. You mentioned that the sort of unit with which you were associated was one that drew enlisted men of a higher intellectual caliber. For this reason, were there men in the unit who shared Oswald's interests, or even given this he was still the only one interested in serious reading?
Mr. Donovan. Not that I know of. But as I have told both the FBI and the Secret Service, he had living in his barracks a boy whose name I am sorry I cannot remember, whose nickname was Beezer——
Mr. Ely. Would the man's name be Roussel?