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. LIEBELER. Did you form an impression as to the feeling he had about
the U.S. officials concerning his return?
Mr. GREGORY. He mentioned that they had given this money to return.
Mr. LIEBELER. I thought you mentioned that he told you they had loaned
him money to return?
Mr. GREGORY. Yes; I am saying he never expressed an opinion one way
or the other. It seems to me that normally a person in that situation
would say he was very glad they gave him the money. He seemed to expect
this money as if it was something that was due him, and he never
expressed any gratitude toward the Ambassador or whoever it was that
gave him the money.
Mr. LIEBELER. Did he express any resentment toward any of the
Government officials concerning his return?
Mr. GREGORY. Completely neutral.
Mr. LIEBELER. Did he tell you whether or not he returned the money to
the State Department?
Mr. GREGORY. No; he never told me.
Mr. LIEBELER. Did you form any opinion either from your discussions
with Oswald as to whether or not Oswald was well liked in the Soviet
Union, and accepted by the people in the community in which he lived?
Mr. GREGORY. As I said before, it seems to me as he was treated as an
outsider, and the only two people I ever heard him speak of were the
two I mentioned besides Marina. Evidently Marina was a special case,
that she did pay attention to him.
He evidently must have been fairly militant over there, or fairly,
could I say not friendly, because he told me of one instance where
the fellows at the factory were studying night course in English or
something, and they came to him and wanted him to help them, and he
helped them once or twice, but then he came to the conclusion they were
lazy and he threw them out and told them he didn't want to help them
any more. Evidently, he wasn't too friendly over there, so I doubt if
he had too many acquaintances.
Mr. LIEBELER. Is that all he told you about the incident when the
fellow factory workers were trying to learn English?
Mr. GREGORY. Yes; and I think one fellow, Pavel, he came to Lee to help
him with his English and he said this fellow was a good student, and he
evidently gave him quite a bit of help.
Mr. LIEBELER. Lee gave quite a bit of help to Pavel and Pavel was
trying to learn English?
Mr. GREGORY. Yes; but the other fellows he thought were lazy and
refused to pay attention.
Mr. LIEBELER. Did he indicate whether Pavel gave him any assistance in
learning Russian?
Mr. GREGORY. No.
Mr. LIEBELER. Or whether he received any other training in the Russian
language while he was in the Soviet Union?
Mr. GREGORY. The only thing he said he learned in the factory when he
went over there, he said he didn't know anything, and when they just
stuck him in a factory, he said he picked it up there, and Marina
helped him quite a bit.
Marina told me that Lee's Russian when I was with him was bad compared
to the Russian Lee spoke while he was in the Soviet Union.
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