Mr. Jenner. Or at least claimed.
Mr. Oliver. It would take me quite some time because most of those books do not have indices. It would be quite some time to run down the references, but the statement that he was trained at Minsk seemed to me to be a perfectly reasonable statement.
Mr. Jenner. Is this a fair statement of the import of your testimony, that when you heard the broadcast during the morning or late evening hours of the 23d-24th from Vienna, that that awakened in your mind so far as the school at Minsk is concerned, some things that you had read prior to that time?
Mr. Oliver. Oh, yes.
Mr. Jenner. Other than having read the memoirs you have mentioned and hearing the broadcast to which you have referred, did you have any other source, that is personal in nature, let us say, that there actually existed while Mr. Oswald, Lee Harvey Oswald was there, or since or prior, a school for international criminals in which sabotage, terrorism, and guerrilla warfare was taught?
Mr. Oliver. No personal knowledge. I never attended the school.
Mr. Jenner. I didn’t mean that, sir. What I am seeking to do is narrow down the source of your statement. What I am seeking is sources and to determine whether there is any source of information which this Commission has not itself investigated and should investigate.
Mr. Oliver. Again, my recollection will be vague. There was some discussion several years ago among “Sovietologists”—of a Russian—of a report from Russian sources that this school had been closed.
Mr. Jenner. Was there a publication?
Mr. Oliver. I am virtually certain it must have been a publication; yes. I believe it was mentioned in connection with some one of these stories that the Russians were “mellowing” and so on.