Warren Commission (03 of 26): Hearings Vol. III (of 15) — John Shaqi
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
Mr. JENNER. Would having the document back before you help you?
Mrs. PAINE. No, no. I was just trying to think what to say first. And
decided that I should have such a copy to give to an FBI agent coming
again, or to call. I was undecided what to do. Meantime I made a copy.
Mr. JENNER. But you did have the instinct to report this to the FBI?
Mrs. PAINE. Yes.
Mr. JENNER. And you made a copy of the document?
Mrs. PAINE. And I made a copy of the document which should be among
your papers, because they have that too. And after having made it,
while the shower was running, I am not used to subterfuge in any way,
but then I put it back where it had been and it lay the rest of Sunday
on my desk top, and of course I observed this too.
Mr. JENNER. That is that Lee didn't put it away, just left it out in
the room?
Mrs. PAINE. That he didn't put it away or didn't seem to care or notice
or didn't recall that he had a rough draft lying around. I observed it
was untrue that the FBI was no longer interested in him. I observed it
was untrue that the FBI came----
Mr. JENNER. Why did you observe that that was untrue?
Mrs. PAINE. Well, the FBI came and they asked me, they said----
Mr. JENNER. Had the FBI been making inquiries of you prior to that time?
Mrs. PAINE. They had been twice.
Mr. JENNER. November 1 and----
Mrs. PAINE. November 1, and they told me the 5. I made no record of it
whatever.
Mr. JENNER. But it was a few days later?
Mrs. PAINE. Yes; a few days later. And the first visit I understood to
be a visit to convey to Marina that if any blackmail pressure was being
put upon her, because of relatives back home, that she was invited, if
she wished, to talk about this to the FBI. This is a far cry from being
told she could defect from the Soviet Union, very strong words, and
false both.
Mr. JENNER. Did you ever hear anything at all insofar as the FBI is
concerned reported to you by Marina or Lee Harvey Oswald during all of
your acquaintance with either of them of any suggestion by the FBI or
anybody else that Marina defect in that context to the United States?
Mrs. PAINE. No, absolutely not.
Mr. JENNER. Or anything of similar import?
Mrs. PAINE. Nothing of similar import.
Mr. JENNER. I limited it to the FBI. Any agency of the Government of
the United States?
Mrs. PAINE. Nothing of that sort.
Mr. JENNER. And did you see or observe anything during all of that
period of your acquaintance, which stimulated you to think at all or
have any notion that any agency of the Government of the United States
was seeking to induce her to defect?
Mrs. PAINE. To the United States?
Mr. JENNER. To the United States.
Mrs. PAINE. No, and her terminology in view of it was so completely
different from such stereotyped and loaded words that I was seeing as I
read this. What I was most struck with was what kind of man is this.
Mr. JENNER. Is who?
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