Mr. DELGADO. No; but that's when I started getting scared. He started
actually making plans, and how we would go about going to Cuba, you
know, and where we would apply to go to Cuba and the people to contact
if we wanted to go, you know, but----
Mr. LIEBELER. So you got the impression that he started to get serious
about going to Cuba?
Mr. DELGADO. Yes. And about this time Castro started changing colors,
so I wasn't too keen on that idea, myself.
Mr. LIEBELER. Did you talk to Oswald about this change in Castro's
attitude and his approach?
Mr. DELGADO. Right. He said that was all due to mal--bad newspaper
reporting, that we were distorting the true facts, and for the same
reason I told you that, because we were mad, because now we wasn't
getting the money from Cuba that we were before.
Mr. LIEBELER. So Oswald basically took the position that you were
getting a distorted view of Cuba?
Mr. DELGADO. Right; and we weren't getting the true facts of what was
happening in Cuba. We were getting the distorted facts.
Mr. LIEBELER. You have no definite way of knowing how much
correspondence Oswald received from the Cuban consulate, do you?
Mr. DELGADO. No.
Mr. LIEBELER. He told you that he had received some correspondence?
Mr. DELGADO. Right.
Mr. LIEBELER. You don't know whether the Russian newspaper that he got
came from the Cuban consulate?
Mr. DELGADO. No. He was getting that way before he even started
corresponding with them.
Mr. LIEBELER. Do you know whether Oswald ever received any books or
pamphlets or materials in any language other than Russian--aside from
English, of course?
Mr. DELGADO. No. He had one book that was English, Das Kapital. I think
it was Russian, a book, like I said. I go by Russian when it's big
block letters. And he had one book like that. He spoke Russian pretty
good, so I understand.
Mr. LIEBELER. How do you understand that?
Mr. DELGADO. He tried to teach me some Russian. He would put out a
whole phrase, you know. In return for my teaching him Spanish, he would
try to teach me Russian. But it's a tongue twister.
Mr. LIEBELER. You didn't have any understanding of the Russian language?
Mr. DELGADO. No. Basically I wasn't interested in it. In order to learn
a language, I think you have to be motivated. You have to have a desire
to use this language, you know, and I had no need to learn Russian.
And just the reverse of him. He wanted to learn Spanish. He had some
idea of using Spanish later on. I'm sure if this hadn't happened, he
probably would be over there now, if he hadn't been already.
Mr. LIEBELER. In Cuba, you mean?
Mr. DELGADO. Yes.
Mr. LIEBELER. Do you have any reason to believe that he has been in
Cuba?
Mr. DELGADO. Well, a guy like him would find--would have no difficulty
in getting into Cuba. They would accept him real fast. The fact that
he was in Russia. Now, all these years in Russia, he could have come
over to Cuba and learned some doctrine. That's where he got his ideas
to start this Fair Play for Cuba Committee down in Louisiana. That must
have been supported by Castro.
Mr. LIEBELER. How do you know that he was involved in the Fair Play for
Cuba Committee in Louisiana?
Mr. DELGADO. Well, this was brought out in the newscast at the time of
his arrest.
Mr. LIEBELER. You have no direct knowledge of that, though?
Mr. DELGADO. No. In one of the news pictures I seen him distributing
pamphlets out in the street.