Mr. Wilcox. I did hold the meetings with these people on December 4, and did obtain these statements, including the statement from Mrs. McClure, Mr. Lewis, both indicated as December 4, and the statement from Mr. Hamblen which is dated December 5.
Following this meeting I endeavored to find the message or messages that Mr. Hamblen was referring to, which he insisted Mrs. McClure had accepted from Mr. Oswald. I did extract from our files all messages matching the message numbers on the cash sheet prepared by Mrs. McClure.
Mr. Liebeler. Did the FBI ask you to do this because Mr. Hamblen said that a message with which Mrs. McClure had difficulty was given to her by a man who Hamblen thought was Oswald, and that the message was one to Washington, D.C., specifically to the Secretary of the Navy——
Mr. Wilcox. Yes, sir.
Mr. Liebeler. And that it was accounted for on Mrs. McClure's sheet as a night letter that was set forth on her cash sheet; is that correct?
Mr. Wilcox. That's right.
Mr. Liebeler. So you then got all of the telegrams that were listed on Mrs. McClure's cash sheets; is that correct?
Mr. Wilcox. From the 1st of November through the November 22. We could not find any such messages. However, we did extract all messages going to Washington, D.C., regardless of the names to whom they were sent, or signed, including some messages going to other points, because of their peculiar type of printing.
Now, would you like to see those messages?
Mr. Liebeler. Yes, sir; I would. Let me ask you specifically if the period covered in terms of this extraction was from October?