Mr. DE MOHRENSCHILDT. I think this whole thing, when the United States
got into war there was no more activity on their part, you know.
Mr. JENNER. Well, there was no need to outbid the Germans, because they
could not buy oil here anyhow.
Mr. DE MOHRENSCHILDT. That is right. So that is how it ended.
Mr. JENNER. You mentioned a Mrs. Williams. Was that Margaret Williams?
Mr. DE MOHRENSCHILDT. Yes.
Mr. JENNER. And she made a bequest to you of $5,000, wasn't it?
Mr. DE MOHRENSCHILDT. Yes--I think $5,000--I thought it was $10,000,
frankly.
Mr. JENNER. Do you remember being interviewed in February 1945?
Mr. DE MOHRENSCHILDT. By whom?
Mr. JENNER. Some agents of the Immigration and Naturalization Service.
Mr. DE MOHRENSCHILDT. In 1945?
Mr. JENNER. Yes.
Mr. DE MOHRENSCHILDT. They interviewed me a couple of times.
Mr. JENNER. Well, you have been interviewed more than once.
Mr. DE MOHRENSCHILDT. Yes.
Mr. JENNER. Well, at that time you are reported to have said that Mrs.
Williams left you the sum of $5,000, and I suggest to you that your
recollection was better in 1945 than it is now.
Mr. DE MOHRENSCHILDT. Yes.
Mr. JENNER. Now, at or about the time that you were doing work with Mr.
Fraiss, did you meet a lady by the name of Lilia Pardo Larin?
Mr. DE MOHRENSCHILDT. Yes.
Mr. JENNER. She was in this country, was she?
Mr. DE MOHRENSCHILDT. Yes.
Mr. JENNER. Tell us about that.
Mr. DE MOHRENSCHILDT. Oh, boy. Do you want to have everything about me?
Okay. I met her through a Brazilian friend of mine.
Mr. JENNER. What was his name?
Mr. DE MOHRENSCHILDT. The King of Bananas of Brazil--his name will come
back to me. Dr.--I forgot his name. Anyway, a rich Brazilian, medical
doctor, very wealthy man, who traveled between Brazil and New York.
Just recently I was talking about him with the Brazilian Ambassador in
Haiti, and he says he is still alive and doing very well.
Dr. Palo Machado, Decio de Paulo Machado. An enormously wealthy
Brazilian, who calls himself the banana king, who liked American girls,
the good life, and very good businessman at the same time.
Mr. JENNER. You liked American girls, too, didn't you?
Mr. DE MOHRENSCHILDT. I am not queer, you know. Although some people
accuse me of that even--even of that. Not as much as some other people,
you know--because this girl really was the love of my life--Lilia
Larin. Anyway, both Machado and I fell in love with this girl. She was
a divorcee.
Mr. JENNER. She wasn't divorced as yet, was she?
Mr. DE MOHRENSCHILDT. She was divorced already once. But she had a
husband some place in the background, who was a Frenchman.
Mr. JENNER. Guasco?
Mr. DE MOHRENSCHILDT. Yes. With whom I got into a fistfight. Well,
anyway, the best man won, as it goes in the book, and Lilia and I fell
in love--I just got a discharge from the military service in the United
States, 4-F, and she invited me to come with her to Mexico. This was my
experience with the FBI. Really, it is so ridiculous that it is beyond
comprehension.