Mr. Liebeler. I am looking at an FBI report which indicates that on November 25, 1963, you were interviewed by two agents of the FBI, Mr. Lester G. Davis, and John William Miller——
Mr. Alba. I remember that.
Mr. Liebeler. And the report indicates that you recalled an additional conversation that you had with Oswald in which you and Oswald discussed the merits of small calibres and larger calibre bullets, and the report said that you recall that Oswald mentioned that a small calibre bullet was more deadly than the larger one, to which point you agreed.
Mr. Alba. Having been left with a wounding effect you would survive a larger calibre wound, your chances of survival from a larger or large calibre wound would be greater than the smaller calibre. We went into the discussion of basing the thing in the ice pick versus the bread knife—I don't think I mentioned this part to the FBI—reflecting on the whole picture that you would be better off receiving a wound from a 10-inch bread knife than you would be being gigged once with a 2- or 3-inch ice pick, and that reflecting the difference between the large calibre wound and the small calibre wound.
Mr. Liebeler. What led you and Oswald to agree that you would be better off being hit with a bread knife than with the ice pick?
Mr. Alba. Internal bleeding.
Mr. Liebeler. There would be more internal bleeding from the ice pick?
Mr. Alba. Small calibre or the ice pick; yes.
Mr. Liebeler. So that you both agreed that the small calibre bullet would be more deadly than the larger one?
Mr. Alba. Being left with a wounded effect; in other words, if it was my intention to destroy an animal I would prefer the large calibre, but if an animal was wounded with a large calibre, or a small calibre bullet, I would say that the smaller calibre bullet would be more deadly in the end than the large calibre wound, and he might survive the large calibre with an open wound.