Mr. Johnson. That is right.
Mr. Rankin. You are also entitled to have counsel, and I understand Mr. Abt is acting as your counsel in connection with this proceeding.
Mr. Johnson. Correct.
Mr. Rankin. You also have a right to have a copy of the testimony made available to you. However, it is at your own expense. We just tell the reporter that you can get it if you pay for it.
Your counsel has a right to make objections during the proceedings and also at the close of the examination on behalf of the Commission to ask you such questions as he may care to, that may clarify anything that you say that he thinks either you desire to have clarified or he thinks in his good judgment should be either clarified or elaborated upon or require further questions from him to make clear what he thinks your testimony is.
Are there any questions which you have in regard to it?
Mr. Johnson. Perfectly all right.
Mr. Rankin. Mr. Johnson, can you identify for us the position you occupied at the time you received some communications from Lee Harvey Oswald?
Mr. Johnson. Yes; I was the director of the information and lecture bureau of the Communist Party.
Mr. Rankin. I may ask you some questions trying to cover things which I ordinarily would, and you wait for your counsel. Is it possible for you to tell us whether you continue to occupy that position now? Is that any problem?