Warren Commission (03 of 26): Hearings Vol. III (of 15)United States. Warren Commission
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Warren Commission (03 of 26): Hearings Vol. III (of 15)
United States. Warren Commission
Kennedy, John F. (John Fitzgerald), 1917-1963 -- Assassination; Oswald, Lee Harvey
Mrs. PAINE. It appeared he didn't want me to see what he was writing or
to whom he was writing. I didn't know why he had covered it. If I had
peered around him, I could have looked at the typewriter and the page
in it, but I didn't.
Mr. JENNER. It did make you curious?
Mrs. PAINE. It did make me curious. Then, later that day, I noticed a
scrawling handwriting on a piece of paper on the corner at the top of
my secretary desk in the living room. It remained there.
Sunday morning I was the first one up. I took a closer look at this,
a folded sheet of paper folded at the middle. The first sentence
arrested me because I knew it to be false. And for this reason I then
proceeded----
Mr. JENNER. Would you just hold it at that moment. This is for purposes
of identification, Mr. Chairman, rather than admission of the document
in evidence. I have marked pages 321 and 322 of Commission Document No.
385 generally referred to by the staff as the Gemberling Report. He is
an FBI agent. I have now placed that before the witness. You examined
that yesterday with me, did you not, Mrs. Paine?
Mrs. PAINE. Yes.
Mr. JENNER. The document I am now showing you?
Mrs. PAINE. Yes.
Mr. JENNER. Is that a transcript, a literal transcript of the document
you saw?
Mrs. PAINE. Of course the document was in English, transcribing of what
was said; yes.
Mr. JENNER. By transcript I meant that it has been retyped, that it is
literal.
Mrs. PAINE. That is the document; yes.
Mr. JENNER. That is interesting. You noticed that the document was in
English.
Mrs. PAINE. Oh, yes.
Mr. JENNER. You saw it. And it was folded at what point, now that you
have the transcript of it before you?
Mrs. PAINE. At the top of what I could see of the paper. In other
words, it was just below the fold. It said, "The FBI is not now
interested in my activities."
Mr. JENNER. Is that what arrested your attention?
Mrs. PAINE. Yes.
Mr. JENNER. What did you do?
Mrs. PAINE. I then proceeded to read the whole note, wondering, knowing
this to be false, wondering why he was saying it. I was irritated to
have him writing a falsehood on my typewriter, I may say, too. I felt I
had some cause to look at it.
Mr. JENNER. May I have your permission, Mr. Chairman. The document is
short. It is relevant to the witness' testimony, and might I read it
aloud in the record to draw your attention to it?
Mr. McCLOY. Without objection.
Mr. JENNER. Mrs. Paine, would you help me by reading it, since you have
it there.
Mrs. PAINE. Do you want me to leave out all the crossed out----
Mr. JENNER. No; I wish you would indicate that too.
Mrs. PAINE. "Dear Sirs:
"This is to inform you of events since my interview with comrade
Kostine in the Embassy of the Soviet Union, Mexico City, Mexico."
(Discussion off the record.)
Mrs. PAINE. He typed it early in the morning of that day because after
he typed it we went to the place where you get the test for drivers. It
was that same day.
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