Mr. DELGADO. 1959.
Mr. LIEBELER. 1959; is that correct?
Mr. DELGADO. Yes.
Mr. LIEBELER. Did you go on leave prior to your discharge?
Mr. DELGADO. Yes; I did.
Mr. LIEBELER. Terminal leave?
Mr. DELGADO. What?
Mr. LIEBELER. Was it a terminal leave, and you just took your leave and
left, or did you go on leave and then come back?
Mr. DELGADO. No. I went on leave and then came back.
Mr. LIEBELER. Where did you go on leave?
Mr. DELGADO. About in August, I think--September to October, something
like that. A 15-day leave, to go to California. August or September. I
think it was in the latter part of the summer. I always take that part
to come into New York, but when I came back, Oz was gone.
Mr. LIEBELER. Where did you go on leave: to California, or did you come
back to New York?
Mr. DELGADO. To New York.
Mr. LIEBELER. Did you talk to the FBI just about this series of events?
Mr. DELGADO. Yes.
Mr. LIEBELER. Do you remember what you told them?
Mr. DELGADO. I told them that I had gone on leave, and when I came
back Oswald had been discharged and that then they came out with the
story that he defected, I think, then, and that we all had gone under
investigation.
Mr. LIEBELER. Did you tell the FBI agents when you went on leave?
Mr. DELGADO. Yes. I gave them a specific date. I think I told them
about August.
Mr. LIEBELER. You didn't tell them June or July?
Mr. DELGADO. No, I don't believe so.
Mr. LIEBELER. Could you have told them it was June or July?
Mr. DELGADO. I may have told them June or July. I'm not too sure. I
know it was the midsummer; because I came into New York in the good
weather.
Mr. LIEBELER. Did you tell the FBI agents that you had actually
transferred to another hut?
Mr. DELGADO. No.
Mr. LIEBELER. You didn't tell them that?
Mr. DELGADO. No.
Mr. LIEBELER. You are positive of that?
Mr. DELGADO. No; but I told them that Oswald was transferred. The only
transfer that occurred was Oswald to my hut, and that I put in for a
transfer, and transfer was waiting to be approved for an NCO to be
bumped into my hut, but it never got approved. I guess things came up,
and about 2 or 3 weeks later I went on leave.
Mr. LIEBELER. When you came back from leave, Oswald was gone?
Mr. DELGADO. Yes. Prior to my leaving I knew he was putting in for a
hardship discharge because he had gone to see the old man and so forth
and so on, but, like I say, it usually took so long time to get a
hardship discharge, too.
Mr. LIEBELER. So you and Oswald were actually quartered in the same
quonset hut up to the time Oswald was discharged?
Mr. DELGADO. Up to the time I went on leave.
Mr. LIEBELER. And when you came back Oswald was gone?
Mr. DELGADO. Right.
Mr. LIEBELER. You never saw him after that?
Mr. DELGADO. No.
Mr. LIEBELER. Did Oswald say anything to you while you were in the
Marines together about going to Russia?
Mr. DELGADO. No.
Mr. LIEBELER. He never did?
Mr. DELGADO. No; I couldn't understand where he got the money to go.
Mr. LIEBELER. You said before he didn't spend very much money.
Mr. DELGADO. Yes; but I imagine the way it costs now, it costs at least
$800 to a $1,000 to travel across Europe, plus the red tape you have to
go through.
Mr. LIEBELER. When did you see this official-looking envelope that you
mentioned before with the seal on it? Do you remember when that was?
Mr. DELGADO. Outside of being prior to one of my departures for Los
Angeles--the month, you want?