Senator COOPER. Did she ever refer to Lee being a Marxist or a Communist? Mrs. PAINE. I don't recall such a reference ever. Senator COOPER. Did she ever tell you whether or not she was a Marxist or a Communist? Mrs. PAINE. No. I assumed she was not either. Senator COOPER. What? Mrs. PAINE. I assumed she was not either. She did at one point poke fun at the Party faithful who attended a Young Communist meeting in Minsk, whom she considered a dull lot and the meetings quite dull. Senator COOPER. I missed the early part of your testimony so you may have testified to this, but I thought that I recalled that you did answer a question addressed to you by someone, a member of the Commission or counsel, in which you said that you were attracted to the Oswalds when you first met them, one, because you wanted to perfect your own Russian, and did you say, too, that you were interested because of the fact that he had been a defector and had returned and it was an unusual circumstance which interested you? Mrs. PAINE. It made him an odd person. Senator COOPER. What? Mrs. PAINE. It made him an odd person. I was interested in the curious sense of what could have motivated him to do this. Senator COOPER. Having that interest, didn't you ever talk to him about it, inquire about his experience? Mrs. PAINE. I guess I wasn't interested enough. Senator COOPER. What led him to do it? Mrs. PAINE. And as I have already testified he always wanted to speak Russian to me, which shortens my tongue. I can't say as much or raise as many questions. Senator COOPER. Well, did you try to search out the reasons for his defection and the reasons for returning? Mrs. PAINE. No; I didn't. Senator COOPER. And his political views, his economic views, that kind of thing? Mrs. PAINE. No; I regret now that I didn't take any interest, but I did not. Senator COOPER. You said that, in answer to counsel that, you either did tell people or probably told them that you believed Lee Oswald was a Communist. Mrs. PAINE. It is my impression I spoke of him as he spoke of himself as a Marxist. Senator COOPER. And you think, you believe, that has some relationship to communism? Mrs. PAINE. Oh; yes. Senator COOPER. I think you have stated that you didn't believe it was necessary for a person to actually be a member of the Communist Party to be a Communist in his views? Mrs. PAINE. Yes. But that I considered it something less than actually accurate to call such a person a Communist that went on being---- Senator COOPER. Other than the persons you have named in your testimony as having come to your house, was there anyone else who ever came to your house, who talked to Lee Oswald or Marina? Mrs. PAINE. I recall no one other than the people I have mentioned, sir. Senator COOPER. Knowing that he was as you have described in your own words, a Marxist, were you concerned at all about that or worried about that, as being in your home?