Mr. QUIGLEY. An individual, that is correct.
Mr. STERN. Had you any knowledge of an organization called Fair Play
for Cuba Committee's activities in New Orleans before this interview?
Mr. QUIGLEY. I had knowledge that there was such an organization in
existence in the United States. I had no knowledge of any activities of
such an organization in the city of New Orleans, La.
Mr. STERN. Did you know of its existence in the United States as part
of your official work?
Mr. QUIGLEY. Overall knowledge of Bureau operations; yes, sir.
Mr. STERN. Were you working on any particular investigation involving
this Committee at the time?
Mr. QUIGLEY. No, sir; I was not.
Mr. STERN. Will you tell us what occurred first when you came to the
police station?
Mr. QUIGLEY. At the time I arrived at the police station, Lieutenant
Martello directed me to the commanding officer's office, where there
was laid out on the table a number of different pamphlets, throwaways,
relating to the Fair Play for Cuba Committee, which he advised me had
been removed by the New Orleans Police Department from Oswald the
previous day, August 9, at the time of his arrest, for disturbing the
peace on Canal Street.
I reviewed, generally looked over, the material to see what it was. I
was not familiar with any of this material. While I was doing this, he
had not at this point identified who the individual was other than the
person had been arrested the previous day; while I was looking over the
material, the jailer brought in an individual who was then introduced
to me by Lieutenant Martello as Harvey Lee Oswald. I then identified
myself by credentials to Lee Harvey Oswald.
Mr. STERN. You said Harvey Lee Oswald.
Mr. QUIGLEY. I beg your pardon.
Mr. STERN. You meant Lee Harvey Oswald?
Mr. QUIGLEY. Yes; Lee Harvey Oswald.
Mr. STERN. Did his name mean anything to you at that time?
Mr. QUIGLEY. No, sir; it did not.
Mr. STERN. In these documents that you were given to look at by the
New Orleans Police was there a handwritten list of names, addresses,
telephone numbers--anything of that sort.
Mr, QUIGLEY. No, sir; there was not.
Mr. STERN. Have you subsequently learned of such a list in connection
with your duties?
Mr. QUIGLEY. Yes; I have.
Mr. STERN. Have you been told why that list wasn't furnished to you at
the time of your interview?
Mr. QUIGLEY. Yes; I have. On November 29, 1963, I went to the first
district station in New Orleans Police Department to confer with
Lieutenant Martello. At this time he informed me that on November 23,
1963, a representative of the Secret Service had contacted him about
3 o'clock in the morning, told him that he was conducting an official
investigation with regard to the assassination of the President, and
desired to talk to him.
Arrangements were made the following or that same day, to meet at the
first district station. At approximately 3 o'clock the Secret Service
representative met there. At this time, Lieutenant Martello went to
his files, removed from the files the evidence that had been taken
from Oswald on August 9, 1963. In going through these documents, he
noted this piece of paper that had what appeared to him to be foreign
writing, he felt that it probably was Russian but he did not know. He
turned this over to the Secret Service.
He related to me that at the time he had questioned Oswald on August
10, 1963, prior to the time that he had called the FBI office, that he
had gone through items in Oswald's wallet, which is a normal procedure
for the police to do, for background identification, and so forth,
and among the items in his wallet was this piece of paper, and in
the discussion that pursued, apparently this particular document and
a small photograph of Oswald inadvertently became involved with the
evidence that was being handled in the case at the time, and the file
was then put away, and it was not gone back into, as I understand it,
until this interview of the 23d, when he discovered this document.
Mr. DULLES. And the photograph?
Mr. QUIGLEY. Yes, sir.
Mr. DULLES. In addition to the writing was among these other papers?
Mr. QUIGLEY. Yes, sir.
Mr. STERN. Did you make notes of your interview?
Mr. QUIGLEY. Yes; I did, sir.
Mr. STERN. Do you practice shorthand or any speedwriting?
Mr. QUIGLEY. No, sir; I do not.
Mr. STERN. How soon after the interview did you record the interview
formally?
Mr. QUIGLEY. Five days.
Mr. STERN. Did you dictate or draft it yourself?
Mr. QUIGLEY. I dictated from my notes.
Mr. STERN. Did you retain the notes?
Mr. QUIGLEY. No, sir; I did not.
Mr. STERN. Is it your usual practice to destroy notes once you have
dictated a memorandum?
Mr. QUIGLEY. It is the usual practice to destroy your notes after the
completed work has been returned to you for proofing to make certain
that the information is accurate, then you do destroy them.
(Discussion off the record.)
Mr. STERN. Mr. Quigley, I show you a one-page document marked for
identification with the number 827. Can you identify that document?
Mr. QUIGLEY. Yes; I can identify this document.
Mr. STERN. What is it, please?
Mr. QUIGLEY. This is a copy of a document that was turned over to me
by Lt. Francis L. Martello of the New Orleans Police Department, on
November 29, 1963. He informed me that at the time he interviewed
Oswald on August 10, 1963, Oswald had on his person a piece of paper
which was removed from his wallet which contained some foreign writing
as well as some English, that the piece of paper inadvertently became
involved in the evidence in the case with reference to the disturbing
of the peace. And subsequently on November 29, 1963, he found this
original document that had been taken from Oswald among the items of
evidence at the first district police station. He then turned the
original of this document over to Secret Service representative, Mr.
Adrian Vial, who was assigned to the Secret Service office at New
Orleans.
Prior to turning the original document over to Mr. Vial, Lieutenant
Martello made a copy in his own handwriting of the document that
was turned over to Mr. Vial. This is the copy of the document that
Lieutenant Martello made and which was turned over to me on November
29, 1963.
Mr. STERN. And you have just supplied that document to the Commission?
Mr. QUIGLEY. I have.
Mr. STERN. You mentioned that Lieutenant Martello said that there was
a photograph among these papers of Lee Harvey Oswald. Did you see the
photograph?
Mr. QUIGLEY. No; I did not.
Mr. STERN. Do you know what he did--did he tell you what he had done
with the photograph?
Mr QUIGLEY. He did not, sir.
Mr. STERN. Did he tell you anything about the photograph, tell you what
it was a photograph of?
Mr. QUIGLEY. He remarked in his report that it appeared to be a
passport photograph.
Mr. STERN. Of Lee Harvey Oswald?
Mr. QUIGLEY. Of Lee Harvey Oswald.
Mr. STERN. Turning now to the first page of your report, Mr. Quigley,
in the third paragraph you show that you were told that Mrs. Oswald's
maiden name was Prossa. From your practice, would you have taken that
name down, asked the person being interviewed to spell it for you?
Mr. QUIGLEY. I certainly would have.
Mr. STERN. If you were relying on your ear, would you indicate that?
Mr. QUIGLEY. I would never take a name phonetically.