Mr. Oliver. For the statement that he was a Communist agent, I rely on what I regard as certain inference from, A, his training in this school; B, the circumstance he was a man who had been accorded most extraordinary privileges in Russia; C, that he had been permitted to marry and take with him the adopted daughter of a man in the Russian intelligence service.
Mr. Jenner. Excuse me, sir, are you now using adopted in the technical sense, that the uncle you have identified adopted her?
Mr. Oliver. I am using it loosely because I for that matter do not know whether there is legal adoption in the Soviet.
Mr. Jenner. I didn’t want you to utter something that you perhaps did not intend.
Mr. Oliver. No; I was merely reluctant to say “purported father” because that would have another implication. D, that he had been permitted to return to the United States by the Soviet with his wife; E, his activities in the United States after his return, all of which were quite obviously in the Communist interest. I believe that summarizes the principal points on which I based my deduction. It is, of course, true that I had no personal knowledge that he was a Soviet agent.
Mr. Jenner. Now, were the sources of these points A through E, the news reports, Commission Exhibit 1015, the Congressional Record, newspaper clippings, and other secondary sources of that nature?
Mr. Oliver. Together with, here also, reports from Mr. Capell.
Mr. Jenner. Do you have with you copies of any of the reports of Mr. Capell that you considered?
Mr. Oliver. No; I do not.
Mr. Jenner. Do you have with you the sources that you considered in connection with making of the statement we have now immediately quoted?