Mr. DE MOHRENSCHILDT. That was for ICA--a job for ICA and for the
Yugoslav Government.
Mr. JENNER. Tell us what ICA is.
Mr. DE MOHRENSCHILDT. International Cooperation Administration here in
Washington--which wanted an oil and gas specialist to go to Yugoslavia
and help them develop oil resources under the--I don't know--some kind
of government deal. Under this----
Mr. JENNER. Did a man named Charles Mitchell accompany you?
Mr. DE MOHRENSCHILDT. Yes--George Mitchell.
Mr. JENNER. And his wife?
Mr. DE MOHRENSCHILDT. Yes; I found him because he was a geophysicist.
In other words, I did the geology and petroleum engineering, and he did
pure geophysics. The ICA needed two men. I looked over the country for
somebody who was capable and willing to go to Yugoslavia, and found
George Mitchell in Dallas, and eventually both of us went there.
Mr. JENNER. You were single at this time?
Mr. DE MOHRENSCHILDT. Yes.
Mr. JENNER. And he was married?
Mr. DE MOHRENSCHILDT. He was married.
Mr. JENNER. And his wife accompanied him?
Mr. DE MOHRENSCHILDT. She did; yes.
Mr. JENNER. This was for the International Cooperation Administration?
Mr. DE MOHRENSCHILDT. Washington 25, D.C.
The Yugoslavian Government paid my living expenses there, and the ICA
paid my salary.
Mr. JENNER. And you had a contract of some kind?
Mr. DE MOHRENSCHILDT. Yes; I think the contract was for 8 or 9 months.
Mr. JENNER. Now, you left on that venture, as I recall it, somewhere
around February of 1957, wasn't it?
Mr. DE MOHRENSCHILDT. I left for Yugoslavia.
Mr. JENNER. Yes; you left for Yugoslavia when?
Mr. DE MOHRENSCHILDT. I think it was very early in 1957, because, 8
months, and I returned in October.
Mr. JENNER. 1957?
Mr. DE MOHRENSCHILDT. 1957; yes. All the reports were made--quite a
considerable number of reports were made in triplicates--some of them
went to ICA, some went to the Yugoslavian Government. I think some went
to the Bureau of Mines here.
Mr. JENNER. That was nonsecurity work, was it not?
Mr. DE MOHRENSCHILDT. I don't have the slightest idea. They checked
me, they gave me some kind of clearance before I went there. Because
I had to wait for quite some time before they gave me the okay. And I
noticed that after I got back from Yugoslavia, they were still checking
me--after I got back from Yugoslavia they were still checking on me.
One character came to see some of my friends in Dallas and said, "Well,
George De Mohrenschildt is about to go to Yugoslavia. Do you think he
is all right?" He said, "But he is already back from Yugoslavia."
Mr. JENNER. In the meantime, you had met your present wife, is that
correct?
Mr. DE MOHRENSCHILDT. Yes; I met her in Dallas. And while we were in
Yugoslavia, we became engaged, and she came to visit me in Yugoslavia
for awhile. But she was actually by profession a designer for a Dallas
firm of I. Clark, and she went to Europe on a business trip for I.
Clark, and while doing so she came and visited me in Yugoslavia for a
couple of weeks.
Mr. JENNER. She was not yet divorced at that time?
Mr. DE MOHRENSCHILDT. I don't think she was divorced. She was getting a
divorce.
Mr. JENNER. Where had you met her? Were you living at the Stoneleigh
Hotel in Dallas?
Mr. DE MOHRENSCHILDT. Yes.
Mr. JENNER. And she was living there, also?
Mr. DE MOHRENSCHILDT. She was living there, also. And she had this
separate apartment. I was living on the Maple Terrace. She was living
at the Stoneleigh Hotel.
Mr. JENNER. Was her daughter with her at that time?
Mr. DE MOHRENSCHILDT. No; I don't think she was. She came over later.
Mr. JENNER. I mean was her daughter living in Dallas?
Mr. DE MOHRENSCHILDT. No; her daughter was living in California.
Mr. JENNER. What was the name of that town?
Mr. DE MOHRENSCHILDT. Where she lived in California?
Mr. JENNER. Yes.
Mr. DE MOHRENSCHILDT. Some canyon--Cayuga Canyon. She can tell you
about that.