Mr. Pic. I was a medical laboratory technician at the hospital there, sir.
Mr. Jenner. When did you return to the United States?
Mr. Pic. July 1962, sir.
Mr. Jenner. And to where did you return?
Mr. Pic. To Lackland Air Force Base where I am presently stationed. In Japan, there is more that happened, sir.
Mr. Jenner. All right.
Mr. Pic. I received—I wrote Lee, I mean Robert, and asked him about this. Of course in Japan we didn't get much news and the OSI wouldn't tell me too much. The Embassy, all they confirmed is that he did defect. I guess in a period of 2, 3 months I got information from Robert through several letters. Every time I got some information I went to the OSI about this. It seems there was a letter, I don't remember if Robert had copied it from Lee's letter or he had sent me the original letter. I showed this, I gave it to the OSI. If they gave it back, it is destroyed now, sir. In this letter he said that no one should try to contact him because the American capitalists would be listening over the phone. He mentioned that he had been contemplating this act for quite awhile. That no one knew it. This is all in my OSI report.
And from what other information I had, I received the impression that him turning toward communism or Marxism, whichever you want to call it, took place while he was in Japan and in the Marine Corps, sir, from the insinuations that were involved in the letter or from his own statements.
Mr. Jenner. Up to this time, Sergeant, in all your association with your brother, had there been occasions when there were discussions with him in the family about any theories or reactions of his toward democracy, communism, Marxism, or any other form of government?
Mr. Pic. Sir, the last time he talked to me, I think he was only about 12, 13 years old.