Mr. Jenner. All right, Doctor. Would you identify the page if you have located it?
Mr. Oliver. This is the page of reprints from the Dallas Morning News with the date 12/4 at the very top of the page in heavy writing.
Mr. Jenner. We are now looking at the back of page 12. It has a dateline Wednesday, December 4, 1963. You are referring, sir, to a particular item?
Mr. Oliver. Yes.
Mr. Jenner. Would you read the headline?
Mr. Oliver. This particular item is an Associated Press Dispatch, and in this paper is headlined, “Oswald a ‘wise guy,’ ex-Marine officer says.” And in it, John E. Donovan, a former Marine officer, is reported as saying, the Oswald’s defection “compromised all our secret radio frequencies, call signs and authentication codes. He knew the location of every unit on the west coast, and the radar capability of every installation. We had to spend thousands of man-hours changing everything, all the technical frequencies”—“all the tactical frequencies,” I am sorry—“and verify the destruction of all of the codes.” That I regard as the significant part of the statement.
Mr. Jenner. Is there any other newspaper clipping contained in Commission Exhibit No. 1015 upon which you relied in making the statement in question or to which I have referred in part 1 of your statement?
Mr. Oliver. It is possible that the same dispatch is reproduced from another newspaper also in this document, but to the best of my recollection it would be the same in both.
Mr. Jenner. So it is a fair statement that the quotation I read into the record from your article was based upon that news report of Officer Donovan’s statement or a repetition of that news item in some other newspaper?
Mr. Oliver. Right.