Mrs. PAINE. There was a Russian magazine, small, Reader's Digest size.
Mr. JENNER. The witness is indicating in her hands about a page size of
about nine by----
Mrs. PAINE. Six.
Mr. JENNER. Nine by six.
Is that about the size?
Mrs. PAINE. Something like that, called the Agitator, the name written
in Russian.
Mr. JENNER. The word "Agitator" was written in Russian, printed in
Russian?
Mrs. PAINE. That is right.
Mr. JENNER. On the face or cover page of this document, is that true?
Mrs. PAINE. Yes.
Mr. JENNER. Was the entire document in Russian?
Mrs. PAINE. Yes.
Mr. JENNER. Did you have occasion to look at it?
Mrs. PAINE. Just the outside.
Mr. JENNER. Your curiosity or intellectual interest never went beyond
reading any portion of one of the issues?
Mrs. PAINE. It never did.
Mr. JENNER. But you do recall definitely the title page?
Mrs. PAINE. Yes.
Mr. JENNER. Any others?
Mrs. PAINE. Crocodile, which is a Russian satirical humor magazine.
Mr. JENNER. Was that in Russian?
Mrs. PAINE. Yes.
Mr. JENNER. Did you have occasion to read it and to observe Russian
humor?
Mrs. PAINE. Yes.
Mr. JENNER. It was not political in character?
Mrs. PAINE. Being satirical, of course, it made political reference but
it was not particularly political in nature.
Mr. JENNER. It was not designed as a political tract, put it that way.
Mrs. PAINE. No.
Mr. JENNER. Anything else?
Mrs. PAINE. Yes. The Russian magazine Ogonok.
Mr. JENNER. What does that mean in Russian?
Mrs. PAINE. It means "bonfire" or "fire".
Mr. JENNER. Was that printed in Russian?
Mrs. PAINE. Yes.
Mr. JENNER. Did you have--did your curiosity lead you to read any
portion of it?
Mrs. PAINE. Or it may be--let's see, I am not certain in my
translation, but go ahead with the question.
Mr. JENNER. You are not certain of your translation of the word?
Mrs. PAINE. Of that single word?
Mr. JENNER. Of the title of this document about which you are now
speaking?
Mrs. PAINE. Yes.
Mr. JENNER. But you think it means what you said it meant?
Mrs. PAINE. It has something to do with fire; yes.
Mr. JENNER. Did you read any portion of any of those issues?
Mrs. PAINE. Yes; I did.
Mr. JENNER. And what was the nature of it with respect to whether it
was political or otherwise?
Mrs. PAINE. It was not political.
Mr. JENNER. What was its nature?
Mrs. PAINE. Narrative, special articles of interest to the general
population. Marina enjoyed reading this one.
Mr. JENNER. She enjoyed it?
Mrs. PAINE. She expressed herself as disliking the Agitator. She
interpreted some of the things in Crocodile for me which I had
difficulty understanding.
Mr. JENNER. Anything else?
Mrs. PAINE. Yes. He subscribed to Time magazine.
Mr. JENNER. Here in America?
Mrs. PAINE. Yes.
Mr. JENNER. And did he read it when he come out on weekends?
Mrs. PAINE. Yes; he did. He read that first.
Mr. JENNER. Sat down and read that first.
Did he take the issue away with him when he left every week?
Mrs. PAINE. It is my impression he did.
Mr. JENNER. Are there any others?
Mrs. PAINE. Yes. He subscribed to the Militant.
Mr. JENNER. Militant. What is the Militant?
Mrs. PAINE. It is a paper in English, newspaper style and I would say
these next two----
Mr. JENNER. Published by whom?
Mrs. PAINE. I don't know.
Mr. JENNER. Socialist Worker's Party?
Mrs. PAINE. I have been so told.
Mr. JENNER. You just don't know?
Mrs. PAINE. I don't know.
Mr. JENNER. But was it a political tract?
Mrs. PAINE. I don't know that.
Mr. JENNER. Did you read it?
Mrs. PAINE. No.
Mr. JENNER. Why didn't you?
Mrs. PAINE. I wasn't interested.
Mr. JENNER. Because of the nature of the document?
Mrs. PAINE. If I had had time to do much reading, I might have taken
an interest but I had no time, insufficient time to do the reading I
really wanted to do. He also subscribed to the Worker.
Mr. JENNER. Is that the publication of the Communist Party USA?
Mrs. PAINE. I have been told so.
Mr. JENNER. Did you read that?
Mrs. PAINE. No.
Mr. JENNER. Did you observe--have you now concluded the list of
newspapers, periodicals or magazines to which he was a subscriber?
Mrs. PAINE. I believe so. I might say that my awareness of his
subscribing to these last two, the Militant and the Worker, came after
the assassination. There was mail awaiting for him for that weekend
which he did not pick up on the 21st, and after the assassination,
indeed, after Saturday evening, the 23d, when it was announced on
television that they had a photograph of Lee Oswald holding two papers.
I looked at this pile of mail waiting for him which consisted of these
two newspapers, the Militant and the Worker, and I threw them away.
Mr. JENNER. You threw them away?
Mrs. PAINE. Without opening them.
Mr. JENNER. Why did you throw them away?
Mrs. PAINE. I was pleased to throw away anything I could. I just didn't
want it.
Mr. JENNER. Well, my question or query, and I think expression of
surprise, is activated by what I am about to ask you as to whether you
might call that to the attention of the FBI?
Mrs. PAINE. Oh, I am sure they knew.
Mr. JENNER. How are you sure they knew?
Mrs. PAINE. Because mail stopped coming on the spot, nothing came after
the assassination, I was certain it was still coming to some place.
Mr. JENNER. But this was almost instantaneously after you heard a
broadcast that a photograph of him had been found in which he had been
holding up the Militant.
But you immediately went to see if he had that mail and there was a
copy of the Militant and you threw it away?
Mrs. PAINE. Why not?
Mr. JENNER. Well, it occurred to me you might have called the FBI's
attention to the fact that it had come to the house. But you didn't in
any event?
Mrs. PAINE. No; I didn't.
Mr. JENNER. Did you report it to the FBI in any of these interviews you
had subsequently with them, or did they ask? It is two questions, if
you will answer both.
Mrs. PAINE. If so, it was quite recently.
Mr. JENNER. When did the other papers begin to arrive? Did I interrupt
you before you had a chance to complete your answer to my question?
Mrs. PAINE. No.
Mr. JENNER. The papers different from the Worker and the Militant, when
did they begin to arrive at your home?
Mrs. PAINE. Well, they began to arrive, I would say, some time after
October 4th. That is, of course, my judgment. That is a rationalization.
Mr. JENNER. These magazines and newspapers you have recounted first
appeared at your home after Lee Oswald came to Dallas and became
employed or came to Dallas to live at your house and to seek employment?
Mrs. PAINE. He came to Dallas, he lived in Dallas, but he used my house.
Mr. JENNER. He came to your house?
Mrs. PAINE. As a residence, mailing address. Never asked to and I never
complained but I noticed, of course, that he was using it as a mailing
address.
Mr. JENNER. Up to that time and even though Marina was living with you
nothing of that nature came to your home?
Mrs. PAINE. What?
Mr. JENNER. Prior to the time that Lee arrived at your home on or about
or on the 4th of October 1963, none of these newspapers or periodicals
had come to your home, is that correct?
Mrs. PAINE. That is correct.
Mr. JENNER. Was he a reader of the local newspaper?
Mrs. PAINE. Yes.
Mr. JENNER. You were a subscriber to what?
Mrs. PAINE. To the Irving newspaper and the Sunday Dallas Morning News.
Mr. JENNER. Did he read both of those?
Mrs. PAINE. He was very interested in seeing the Sunday paper edition
especially. He read both, to the best of my recollection.
Mr. JENNER. He also read the daily papers?
Mrs. PAINE. Well, he wasn't there daily.
Mr. JENNER. When he was there he read it?
Mrs. PAINE. The Irving paper didn't come out on Saturday, so it was
only the Sunday papers.
Mr. JENNER. But there were occasions when you had issues, the Friday
issue around or Thursday issue around your home?
Mrs. PAINE. I don't recall his being interested in back issues.
Mr. JENNER. Are there any letters and communications between you and
Marina or between you and Lee Oswald to which you have not called my
attention?
Mrs. PAINE. There never were any letters of any sort between me and Lee
Oswald except unless you could include this English portion to which I
have already called your attention in a letter to Marina.
Mr. JENNER. Yes.
Mrs. PAINE. The only other letters--I have called your attention to all
such letters, but I will have to wait until you are in Dallas to see
the letters written since the assassination to Marina.
Mr. JENNER. Then I will ask you this question.
You produced for my inspection all of these letters other than the ones
that I will see when I am in Dallas which you have identified as having
been written subsequent to, subsequently to, November 22, 1963, is that
correct?
Mrs. PAINE. That is right, you have all the correspondence.
Mr. JENNER. All right.
Mrs. PAINE. Wait, we did omit one letter which you have from Marina.
Mr. JENNER. Yes; I have it here.
Mrs. PAINE. You have no gaps that I could supply you.
Mr. JENNER. I appreciate the fact I have that letter which we found not
relevant and, therefore, I did not tender it. You have tendered to me
everything other than those I will see when I reach Dallas.
Mrs. PAINE. That is right.
Mr. JENNER. Now, do you recall having a conversation with Dr. Froelich
Rainey----
Senator COOPER. May I ask, just a moment, the letter which has not been
tendered and which was said not to be relevant----
Mrs. PAINE. You have a copy of it.
Senator COOPER. To whom was that letter addressed?
Mr. JENNER. That is addressed to Marina.
Senator COOPER. May I ask, does counsel have a copy of that letter?
Mr. JENNER. Yes; I have a copy of the letter and I have preserved the
original and I also have a typewritten copy.
Senator COOPER. It has not been offered as part of evidence?
Mr. JENNER. It has not been offered because it is irrelevant to
anything referred to here and it also has a personal remark in it that
Mrs. Paine would prefer not to have spread on the record.
Mrs. PAINE. A remark not pertinent to the assassination or to the
Oswalds but to my marriage.