Mr. QUIGLEY. I did check our files and I determined that we had an
investigation currently underway with regard to Oswald. I knew it
was assigned to an agent in the New Orleans office who sat right in
front of me. So I, on Monday morning, I discussed the fact that I had
interviewed Oswald at the first district jail on Saturday morning.
Mr. STERN. Do you recall what you told him about the case other than
the details? Did you think Oswald was worthy of further investigation?
Mr. QUIGLEY. Well, sir, this was not my decision. I was merely
recording the results of an interview. I had nothing to do with the
actual investigation of this particular matter.
Mr. STERN. Did you think he was behaving rationally or irrationally?
Mr. QUIGLEY. I would say he was acting rationally. You are speaking of
the time I interviewed him?
Mr. STERN. Yes.
Mr. QUIGLEY. Rationally.
Mr. STERN. Were you concerned at all by the fact that he had requested
this interview, volunteered for it after his arrest in connection with
Fair Play for Cuba Committee activity and thereafter was misleading and
reluctant to talk to you about these activities? Didn't you think it
was strange?
Mr. QUIGLEY. No, sir; I just thought this was a normal situation that
has occurred many times of persons in custody of the police wish to
talk to an FBI agent. We have them come to our headquarters in New
Orleans all the time to talk to us. So I didn't consider this unusual
at all.
Mr. STERN. Would it be usual or had it occurred before that someone
would ask for an interview and then refuse to respond to your
questions. Didn't that seem strange?
Mr. QUIGLEY. Not necessarily; not necessarily. Frequently people will
have a problem and want to talk to an FBI agent and they want to tell
them what their problem is, but then when you start probing into it
then they don't want to talk to you. I think that is just human nature.
If you are probing too deep it gets a little touchy.
Mr. DULLES. Who was in charge of this other investigation from the FBI
office with regard to Lee Harvey Oswald that you found out about later,
was this Special Agent Milton R. Kaack?
Mr. QUIGLEY. Yes, sir.
Mr. DULLES. Did you make your report to him, did you?
Mr. QUIGLEY. Orally, yes; I discussed it with him.
Mr. DULLES. When it was sent forward was it sent forward with these
documents we have in Exhibit 826 of which your report forms pages 6
through 10?
Mr. QUIGLEY. Yes, sir; this was prepared--that is correct--this was
then prepared and transcribed. But I had discussed the matter or
discussed the fact that I had interviewed him.
Mr. DULLES. Was Special Agent Kaack your superior or just happened to
be in charge of this particular subject?
Mr. QUIGLEY. No; this investigative matter was assigned to him.
Mr. DULLES. I see. He was the one then who forwarded the report to
Washington, this report we have, Exhibit 826?
Mr. QUIGLEY. He is the one who prepared it; yes, sir.
Mr. DULLES. And included verbatim your memorandum in this report?
Mr. QUIGLEY. Yes, sir.
Mr. DULLES. Pages 7 to 10.
Mr. QUIGLEY. Yes, sir.
The CHAIRMAN. Six to ten.
Mr. STERN. Have you found subsequent to this interview, Mr. Quigley,
that you had any other contact with the case of Lee Harvey Oswald
before this interview?
Mr. QUIGLEY. Yes; I discovered at the time I checked our files that on
April 18, 1961, I had, as a result of a request of the Dallas office,
checked the office of naval intelligence records at the U. S. Naval
Station at Algiers. My purpose in checking that was merely to record
what information their files contained.
Mr. STERN. And then you would send a report to that effect to the
Dallas office?
Mr. QUIGLEY. I sent a letter I believe in that particular case.
Mr. STERN. Any other contact before this?
Mr. QUIGLEY. No, sir.
Mr. STERN. Any other contact with Lee Harvey Oswald or his case or
anything to do with his case?
Mr. QUIGLEY. No, sir.
Mr. STERN. After your interview in the police station but before the
assassination?
Mr. QUIGLEY. No, sir.
Mr. STERN. Up to the time of the assassination?
Mr. QUIGLEY. No, sir.
Mr. DULLES. I note this case is marked "P," which I understand is
pending.