Mrs. PAINE. I am putting in a lot of guesswork.
Mr. JENNER. Am I interrupting you?
Mrs. PAINE. No. It is just that I wonder if you want me to dredge this
deeply into things I cannot be absolutely certain about.
Mr. JENNER. We would like your best recollection. We do hesitate about
speculation.
Mrs. PAINE. Indeed.
Mr. JENNER. When we are asking about factual matters. We do ask for
your speculation occasionally, but to try to make it quite deliberate
when we are asking for that rather than for facts. Have you now stated
all that comes to mind with respect to the advice to Lee Oswald of the
visit of FBI agents or any discussion with Mr. Oswald at any time while
he visited your home during this period in 1963 prior to November 22
with respect to FBI agent visits?
Have you now exhausted your recollection on the subject?
Mrs. PAINE. I think one other thing. Agent Hosty asked me, and I am not
certain which time, but more likely the second, since so far as I can
recall Marina wasn't present, if I thought this was a mental problem,
his words referring to Lee Oswald, and I said I didn't understand the
mental processes of anyone who could espouse the Marxist philosophy,
but that this was far different from saying he was mentally unstable or
unable to conduct himself in normal society.
I did tell Lee that this question had been asked. He gave no reply, but
more a scoffing laugh, hardly voiced.
Mr. JENNER. Have you now exhausted your recollection?
Mrs. PAINE. I have clearly exhausted it.
Senator COOPER. Who asked the question?