Mr. Liebeler. You got the feeling that it was primarily the Russians who had delayed his return, is that correct?
Mr. Ballen. Well, it was a matter of working then through these bureaucrats and the American bureaucrats. This would be his reaction.
Mr. Liebeler. Would you say he expressed more resentment of the American bureaucracy or the Russian bureaucracy, or were they about the same?
Mr. Ballen. I would say about equal.
Mr. Liebeler. Did you have any discussion with Oswald concerning politics?
Mr. Ballen. Not in addition to what I have already alluded to, parenthetically.
Mr. Liebeler. Did Oswald tell you anything about his educational background? About where he had gone to grade school or high school and that sort of thing?
Mr. Ballen. I am sure I questioned him on that, and the ultimate conclusion I came to was that he left—that he lacked educational training.
Mr. Liebeler. Did he tell you that he had been employed by a newspaper in New Orleans?
Mr. Ballen. I think he told me that his knowledge of reproduction facilities had been refreshened by recent employment in New Orleans, and the—in the photographic field, but this employment, I thought in New Orleans, would have been in a printing shop rather than a newspaper.