Mr. RANKIN. Exhibit 104 purports to be a small notebook of Mrs. Oswald.
Mr. THORNE. Exhibit 105 is the original of a notebook containing
various writings in English and in Russian.
Mrs. OSWALD. This is when Lee was getting ready to go to Russia, and he
made a list of the things that he wanted to buy and take with him.
Further, I don't know what he had written in there.
Mr. DULLES. Was this the time he went or the time he didn't go?
Mrs. OSWALD. When he didn't--when he intended to.
Mr. RANKIN. In Exhibit 105, Mrs. Oswald, I will ask you if you noted
that your husband had listed in that "Gun and case, Price 24 REC. 17."
Mrs. OSWALD. I don't know what that is. Unfortunately, I cannot help. I
don't know what this means.
Mr. RANKIN. But you do observe the item in the list in that booklet, do
you?
Mrs. OSWALD. Yes.
Now I see it.
Mr. RANKIN. I offer in evidence Exhibit 105.
The CHAIRMAN. That will be received.
(The document referred to was marked Commission Exhibit No. 105, and
received in evidence.)
Mr. RANKIN. With regard to Exhibit 102, I should like to inform the
Commission that as a part of this transcribed record, as soon as we can
complete it, we will have photostatic copies of these various exhibits
for you, along with photographs of the physical material. But I think
you will want to examine some of it very closely.
I call your particular attention to this draft of a proposed speech.
One of the items, No. 1, states, "Americans are apt to scoff at the
idea that a military coup in the U.S. as so often happens in Latin
American countries, could ever replace our government. But that is an
idea that has grounds for consideration. Which military organization
has the potentialities of exciting such action? Is it the Army? With
its many conscripts, its unwieldy size, its score of bases scattered
across the world? The case of General Walker shows that the Army at
least is not fertile enough ground for a far-right regime to go a very
long way, for the size, reasons of size, and disposition."
Then there is an insert I have difficulty in reading.
"Which service, then, can qualify to launch a coup in the U.S.A.? Small
size, a permanent hard core of officers and few bases as necessary.
Only one outfit fits that description, and the U.S. Marine Corps is a
rightwing-infiltrated organization of dire potential consequences to
the freedom of the United States. I agree with former President Truman
when he said that 'The Marine Corps should be abolished.'"
That indicates some of his thinking.
The CHAIRMAN. We will just take a short break.
(Brief recess.)
The CHAIRMAN. The Commission will be in order.
Mr. THORNE. Exhibit 106 for identification is a notebook.