I want to give you an opportunity to explain that fully.
Mr. DE MOHRENSCHILDT. No; I have no information whatsoever, except what you hear now living in Port-au-Prince from the foreigners who read foreign papers. And, of course, they are all of the opinion that Oswald did not kill the President, that there was a plot, that there was---that somebody else was standing on the bridge, there was a car there on the bridge from where they were shooting, that there were four shots--and all those things are discussed all day long in Haiti right now, in the colony of foreigners-- Embassy People and businessmen who live in Haiti, most of them Europeans, of course. They discuss it all day long.

Mr. Jenner.

And they are confining their judgment to what they read in the papers they receive from their homeland?
Mr. DE MOHRENSCHILDT. Purely; yes--purely. As you know, there are sensational articles being published right now in Europe on that subject.

Mr. Jenner.

Mr. De Mohrenschildt, you know of no supposed facts that you have read in these foreign language newspapers, do you?
Mr. DE MOHRENSCHILDT. Do I know what?

Mr. Jenner.

You don't know if there is any merit one way or another?
Mr. DE MOHRENSCHILDT. No; I don't know of any merit one way or the other.

Mr. Jenner.

And this remark of yours in the letter to Mrs. Auchincloss was not intended to imply that?
Mr. DE MOHRENSCHILDT. No, no; it was not. It was purely based on whatever was expressed in my testimony. And I think it will be fair to say that I will have that lingering doubt for the rest of my life.

Mr. Jenner.

You may have an opportunity to read the Commission report, which I assume you will.
Mr. DE MOHRENSCHILDT. I wish you the best of luck.

Mr. Jenner.

You wrote Mrs. Auchincloss again, did you not, in February 2, 1964?
Mr. DE MOHRENSCHILDT. Yes.

Mr. Jenner.

I hand you the envelope and letter. Do you identify those as being the letter you sent to her and the envelope in which the letter was enclosed?
Mr. DE MOHRENSCHILDT. Yes; it is exactly the letter I have written.

Mr. Jenner.

This letter leads me then into your Haiti venture. Tell us about it. How did that arise, when did you first think about it?
Mr. DE MOHRENSCHILDT. I started doing geological work in Haiti in 1956, I think, the first time, where I worked for some Haitian people connected with the Sinclair interests in Haiti.
I worked up a geological prospect for oil and gas drilling in the northern part of Haiti, and we were able to sell the projects to a company in Tulsa, and finally the deal fell through because of the Cuban situation.
In other words, the company did not want to drill in Haiti because of the expropriations going on in the Caribbean area. And the next time then I was in Haiti, as I explained before, after our trip----

Mr. Jenner.

That is the trip you made down there, Mexico and the Central American countries?
Mr. DE MOHRENSCHILDT. Yes--in 1961--and started preparing this project from then on.
Finally the project came to fruition in March 1963, and we left for Haiti--at the end of May 1963.

Mr. Jenner.

You made a trip to New York City before you went to Haiti, did you not?

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