And while there—he travels around Africa all the time—he found out that there were some oil seeps in the northern part of Ghana, indications of oil. And he asked me to go there and investigate. And eventually we took a concession in the northern part of Ghana. We still are supposed to have it, this concession.
Mr. Jenner. Was it published when you went to Ghana that you were a philatelist?
Mr. De Mohrenschildt. When we arrived in Ghana?
Mr. Jenner. Yes.
Mr. De Mohrenschildt. Sure.
Mr. Jenner. Explain that.
Mr. De Mohrenschildt. That was a trick, because I was representing the philatelic agency, Lehman, but we did not want to let it be known to Shell Oil Co. that I was a consulting geologist.
Mr. Jenner. Don't you think Shell Oil Co. would know that George De Mohrenschildt was an oil geologist?
Mr. De Mohrenschildt. Well, we didn't want it to be known, anyway, because I even didn't go through—I didn't spend any time in Accra. I went right away to the northern provinces. How did you know that I went as a philatelist? You have to say that sometimes in the oil business you use certain tricks. But that was intentional on the part of Mr. Lehman, because Shell Oil Co. is supposed to have the real entry to all those countries, as far as concessions go.
Mr. Jenner. Did this venture of yours in behalf of Lehman Trading Corp. have anything—was that political in any nature, and I say political with a capital P.