The portions in which I reason from those facts are, of course, the deductions which I draw.
Mr. Jenner. Do the articles indicate when you are reasoning and when you are referring to sources?
Mr. Oliver. I believe so with at least reasonable clarity. It was my intention to make that clear.
Mr. Jenner. I take it then that none of the portions of the article is derived from any personal source of information upon your part, that is personal knowledge as distinguished from reference sources that you have described to me.
Mr. Oliver. Certainly nothing concerning the assassination is derived from any personal knowledge of mine. I was not present, and as a matter of fact, have seen none of the persons involved. By “seen,” of course, I mean seen personally, not in pictures or films.
Mr. Jenner. All right.
I direct your attention to part I, on page 13. You make the statement, “Lee Harvey Oswald was a young punk who defected to the Soviet taking with him the operational codes of the Marine Corps and sufficient other secrets as a fledgling traitor had been able to steal while in military service.”
What is the source of your statement that Lee Harvey Oswald took with him or even had the operational codes of the Marine Corps?
Mr. Oliver. The principal source certainly is a statement made by a former officer of the Marine Corps and reported widely in the press at the time, that after Oswald’s defection the Marine Corps found it necessary to change all of their operational codes, and further had to make certain other changes evidently involving radar frequencies, and quite possibly the location of radar stations.
The officer, naturally, was not too explicit on that point. He stated, however, that this work involved, I believe, many thousands of man-hours of work.