Warren Commission (09 of 26): Hearings Vol. IX (of 15)United States. Warren Commission
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Warren Commission (09 of 26): Hearings Vol. IX (of 15)
United States. Warren Commission
Kennedy, John F. (John Fitzgerald), 1917-1963 -- Assassination; Oswald, Lee Harvey
Mr. DE MOHRENSCHILDT. Yes; I stayed in Dallas, carried on my consulting
work in the same manner, concentrating mostly from then on on the
foreign end of this business.
Mr. JENNER. What do you mean foreign end?
Mr. DE MOHRENSCHILDT. I started taking more and more foreign jobs. In
1956 I took a job in Haiti for a private--for some private individuals
connected with Sinclair Oil Company.
Mr. JENNER. When was that?
Mr. DE MOHRENSCHILDT. In 1956--just before our divorce, I think. We
were already separated. Then we must have been divorced the end of 1956.
Sorry--too many marriages, too many divorces. So I started taking
more and more foreign jobs. And, also, in my relationship with Mr.
Sharples, because--my ex-wife's father--I did some foreign work for
him, mainly in Mexico. He had some foreign exploitation in Mexico, some
oil operations in Mexico. Anyway, I started getting a lot of foreign
jobs--maybe jobs in Nigeria.
Mr. JENNER. I want to know what countries you were taken to in
connection with those.
Mr. DE MOHRENSCHILDT. Well, all in all, I visited and I did foreign
work, which means preparation for taking of concessions and suggestion
of what areas should be taken for an oil and gas concessions--it was
in Nigeria, in Togoland, in Ghana, in France--I may have forgotten
with some other countries where I did not have to go, but I did some
work right there in Dallas--examined the geological work and made
suggestions.
Mr. JENNER. Now----
Mr. DE MOHRENSCHILDT. And eventually----
Mr. JENNER. You did travel to Mexico?
Mr. DE MOHRENSCHILDT. Yes; many, many times.
Mr. JENNER. In connection with that work.
Mr. DE MOHRENSCHILDT. In Cuba, too.
Mr. JENNER. Tell us about that.
Mr. DE MOHRENSCHILDT. Well, in Cuba--I traveled in Cuba before Castro,
during the Batista days. The ex-president of Pantitec Oil Co. formed
the Cuban-Venezuela Oil Co., a development--a land development to
promote eventually a large oil drilling campaign in Cuba. He almost
owned about half of the whole country under lease. This was during the
Batista days. He invited me to come there and look the situation over,
and make recommendations. And so I visited the fields there, and his
office--that type of job that I had from time to time.
Mr. JENNER. I want to get the countries now. Cuba----
Mr. DE MOHRENSCHILDT. Cuba, Mexico, Ghana----
Mr. JENNER. These are your travels now?
Mr. DE MOHRENSCHILDT. Yes. That is where I actually went.
Mr. JENNER. That is what I want to know.
Mr. DE MOHRENSCHILDT. Ghana, Nigeria, Togoland, and France.
Mr. JENNER. Now, all of this was in connection with the work you
were doing with respect to oil exploration and gas exploration and
development for what group?
Mr. DE MOHRENSCHILDT. For No. 1--for Charmex. Then Cuban Venezuelan
Trust--that is Warren Smith Co. Then the Three States Oil and Gas Co.
in Dallas.
Mr. JENNER. Now--were there some other companies?
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