Mr. Ofstein. I just thought that as far as he was concerned, it was possibly another phase of photography and that he was interested in it. It has since, come up down at the company—the use of microdots and the different techniques, but we are still not employing those techniques and I thought possibly that he might have also, as I have several times, come to read things about microfilm and, of course you see it in these science fiction movies of space travel and so—the use of microfilm, and I presumed this was along the same lines.
Mr. Jenner. Did it ever arouse in you any alarm or any doubt?
Mr. Ofstein. No, sir; I just thought it was possibly a passing piece of conversation.
Mr. Jenner. Here again you didn't become suspicious or concerned?
Mr. Ofstein. No, sir.
Mr. Jenner. Did you speak to anybody about that incident?
Mr. Ofstein. No, sir. After Oswald was released from employment, I did ask the recruiting sergeant for Army security here in town, who I was stationed with overseas, about the possibility of getting the FBI to run a routine check on him because of the fact that I have done security work, and the fact that I also—this was just before I wrote the letter to Oswald inviting him and his wife over—due to the fact that I wanted to keep my record clean. Well, I didn't suspect him as being a spy or anything like that—I just wanted to make sure I was with the right company, and he told me that it was probably nothing.
Mr. Jenner. You wanted to inquire not only with respect to him but also whether you were with the right company?
Mr. Ofstein. Well, sir, I wouldn't jeopardize losing any chance of getting a security clearance at anytime I needed it.
Mr. Jenner. And, Sergeant Crozier, did you say his name was—I believe it is Sergeant Geiger.