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    "ocrText": "-5-\nit was because they wanted something from me. As I said before\nI am not clear about his position and I don't know what he wanted.\nI want to mention something else here that I think may be of some\nimportance. I once made the remark to Leverkuhn after I had been\ninterrogated by the Russians that I had a slightly unpleasant\nfeeling about it because things were coming to the surface which\nwould harm the matter itself and I told him that perhaps things\nlike that could be talked about outside a formal interrogation and\nmay be he could mention it to General Donovan so I could talk to\nColonel Amen about it and may be that is how it came into being.\nQ. You mean something the Russians were bringing out in the\ninterrogation with you that might not be helpful in the case?\nA. No, I just meant that in general you will probably remember,\nColonel, I mean the other day when I was interrogated by the Russians\nI asked you if I was being interrogated as a defendant or as a\nTRUMAN\nwitness and whether I was under oath to find out whether I was\nARCHIVES AND\nLIBRARY\nRECORDS\nobliged to answer everything and whether I was supposed to give SERVICE\nthem the full extent of my knowledge and they said no, that is\nnot so, and I talked to Leverkuhn and I said I had some information\nthat could be brought out outside of a formal interrogation because\nI didn't t think it would help to bring it out, and he said he would\ntalk it over with General Donovan, SO I could speak to Colonel Amen.\nQ. I don't understand your reference to the conversation you\nhad with me about the Russian interrogation.\nA. You remember when I asked, and it should be in the record,\nwhether I was a defendant or a witness because I had not been taken\nunder oath. I didn't put it quite clearly just now. You remember"
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