Mr. Jenner. Do you know the superintendent's name?
Mr. Stovall. Ted Gangel.
Mr. Jenner. Would you spell it, please?
Mr. Jenner. G-a-n-g-e-l [spelling], or G-a-n-g-l—I won't be sure.
Mr. Jenner. They are here in Dallas?
Mr. Stovall. Yes—he's their superintendent. He called me and asked me and I told him I did not know, but I would check, so I asked John Graef and they said this fellow was kind of an oddball, and he was kinda peculiar sometimes and that he had had some knowledge of the Russian language, which—this is all I knew, so I told Ted, I said, "Ted, I don't know, this guy may be a damn Communist. I can't tell you. If I was you, I wouldn't hire him." So, he didn't, but he did come out of the Marines and supposedly he had a discharge that was satisfactory but I did not ever see this discharge.
Mr. Jenner. Was anything said in connection with your inquiries at that time about his having had a Russian language newspaper around your place of employment?
Mr. Stovall. One of the fellows mentioned that he thought he might have, but in further discussion he was unable to pinpoint whether he was positive of this or whether he just thought it was. This fellow Ofstein—I think he made mention of it, the fact that he thought he might have seen one.
Mr. Jenner. Well, he said not only did he see it, but that he read it. He had some command of the Russian language himself. He was a student at the Service Language School in Monterey, Calif., when he was in the service.
Mr. Stovall. Actually, when I was talking to this fellow Padgett, I was really just shooting off my mouth, but it seemed the way it turned out, that maybe there was a little bit of founding to it.