Mr. PENA. No.
Mr. LIEBELER. Except to Cuba on that trip?
Mr. PENA. No; I came back to--I went from here to--directly from here
to Havana and from Havana to New Orleans.
Mr. LIEBELER. After your trip to Cuba in 1959, when was the next time
that you were out of the United States?
Mr. PENA. It was last summer. I went on vacation to Mexico.
Mr. LIEBELER. How long were you there?
Mr. PENA. Nine days. I plan 2 weeks, but I got sick to my stomach, so I
came back.
Mr. LIEBELER. Was that strictly a vacation trip?
Mr. PENA. Yes.
Mr. LIEBELER. It had nothing to do with politics or anything like that?
Mr. PENA. No.
Mr. LIEBELER. Do you have your passport here, Mr. Pena?
Mr. PENA. Yes [handing document to counsel].
Mr. LIEBELER. The witness has handed me his passport, which is numbered
D-0092577, and issued on June 25, 1963. It carries the name of Orest
Pena and indicates a birth date of August 15, 1923, that the birthplace
is Cuba, that he is 5 feet 8 inches tall, has black hair and brown eyes.
After you went to Mexico in May of 1963, when did you next leave the
United States?
Mr. PENA. About 1 or 2 months after that vacation I went to Puerto Rico
for 1 week and to the Dominican Republic for 1 week.
Mr. LIEBELER. Can you tell us exactly when it was that you left New
Orleans at that time to go to Puerto Rico?
Mr. PENA. I don't remember, but you have it there, the date I entered
the Dominican Republic. I went 1 week before that by Delta Co.,
directly from New Orleans to San Juan, P.R., by Delta Airlines.
Mr. LIEBELER. Are you indicating a visa stamp on page 6 of the
passport, which is difficult to read?
Mr. PENA. The 22d of August; yes.
Mr. LIEBELER. August 22?
Mr. PENA. But then I got to Puerto Rico about the 14th.
Mr. LIEBELER. Fourteenth or fifteenth of August?
Mr. PENA. Fourteenth or fifteenth, something like that, of August.
Mr. LIEBELER. When did you leave New Orleans?
Mr. PENA. You leave New Orleans around 12 o'clock. About 3 hours later
you are in San Juan, P.R.
Mr. LIEBELER. That would have been August 13 or 14?
Mr. PENA. The 13th or 14th of August I left New Orleans. Then, after I
got to Puerto Rico, 1 week after that I went to the Dominican Republic.
Mr. LIEBELER. Now, Mr. Pena, I would like to make arrangements with the
Secret Service agent who is here to make photographic copies of this
passport and to mark it in connection with our deposition. Would it be
agreeable with you to deliver it to him now?
Mr. PENA. Yes. You can get the exact date by Delta Airlines I went to
Puerto Rico.
Mr. LIEBELER. It seems from the visa that if you went to Puerto Rico a
week before you went to the Dominican Republic, the stamp here shows
it would have been around the 13th or 14th of August 1963, and that's
close enough.
(Whereupon, a brief recess was taken.)