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. Never have.
Mr. JENNER. Representing----
Mr. DE MOHRENSCHILDT. Never, never.
Mr. JENNER. Any government?
Mr. DE MOHRENSCHILDT. You can repeat it three times.
Mr. JENNER. Any government?
Mr. DE MOHRENSCHILDT. No. I could take what you call the fifth
amendment, but, frankly, I don't need to.
Mr. JENNER. I should say to you, Mr. De Mohrenschildt, that any time
you think that your privacy is being unduly penetrated, or that you
feel that your constitutional rights might be invaded, or you feel
uncomfortable, you are free to express yourself.
Mr. DE MOHRENSCHILDT. You are more than welcome. I have never been
an agent of any government, never been in the pay of any government,
except the American Government, the ICA. And except being in the Polish
Army--$5 a month.
Well, maybe I made a mistake. Maybe I am working for the Haitian
Government now. It is a contract. But it has no political affiliations.
Mr. JENNER. Subject to that.
Mr. DE MOHRENSCHILDT. Again, no political angle to it.
Mr. JENNER. What I am driving at--whether you work for a foreign
government or not, whether you ever have in your lifetime--have you at
any time had any position, which I will call political, in the capital
P sense, in which you sought to advance the interests of a movement or
a government or even a group against a government?
Mr. DE MOHRENSCHILDT. Never have. Never was even a Mason. Never part of
any political group.
Mr. JENNER. And any views you have expressed during your rather
colorful life have been your personal views?
Mr. DE MOHRENSCHILDT. Personal views; yes.
Mr. JENNER. Not induced or fed or nurtured by any political interests,
with a capital P, on behalf of any group?
Mr. DE MOHRENSCHILDT. That is right. Sometimes I criticize things, like
in Texas--I criticize the lack of freedoms that the Mexicans have, the
discrimination, and things like that. But nobody pays me for that. I
say what I think.
Mr. JENNER. Whether they pay you or not----
Mr. DE MOHRENSCHILDT. I have never been a member of any group of any
kind. My life was too busy, as you can see, in order to be involved in
anything like that.
Mr. JENNER. Now, we covered your two Yugoslav ventures, your Ghanian
venture--the time that you had the company when you were a young man in
Europe, traveled around Europe.
We covered all your employments in the United States, from the time you
came here in May of 1938.
I think we have reached the point of your great venture which you
started to tell us about, and I had you hold off--your trip down into
Mexico and the Central American countries--tell us about that in your
own words, how it came about, and what you did.
Mr. DE MOHRENSCHILDT. Well, I started explaining that already, that it
is not a new idea for me. I said before that 20 years before, Roderick
MacArthur and myself set out on a limited trip of this type, when we
were both young men in Mexico.
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