Mr. DULLES. Any objection?
Mr. LEECH. No.
Mr. DULLES. It will be introduced.
(The letter referred to was marked for identification as Commission
Exhibit No. 331 and received in evidence.)
The CHAIRMAN. Have you seen it?
Mr. MARTIN. Yes.
Mr. REDLICH. Mr. Chief Justice, we have introduced that because
just prior to the recess we were discussing it and Congressman Ford
indicated he had to leave I believe and I wanted to ask some questions.
The CHAIRMAN. Go ahead.
Mr. DULLES. Could I ask one question on this letter for clarification?
It is my understanding it is your belief that Mrs. Oswald received a
copy of this letter in Russian?
Mr. MARTIN. Well, she received a letter on this letterhead written in
Russian. Now whether it was an exact copy, I don't know.
Mr. DULLES. About the length of this letter as far as you could tell?
Mr. MARTIN. Yes.
Mr. DULLES. At about the same time?
Mr. MARTIN. Yes, it was the same day.
Mr. DULLES. That was the letter she crumpled up and put in the
wastepaper basket?
Mr. MARTIN. Yes.
Mr. DULLES. But you retrieved it from the wastepaper basket, did you
not say?
Mr. MARTIN. Yes, sir, and asked her to answer it.
Mr. DULLES. Where is that copy that you retrieved from the wastepaper
basket?
Mr. MARTIN. I don't know.
Mr. DULLES. Maybe reassigned to the wastepaper basket?
Mr. MARTIN. It may have been, yes.
Representative FORD. I believe that was the letter that Mr. Redlich
indicated he would get a copy from the Dallas Chapter of the American
Civil Liberties Union.
Mr. MARTIN. Her answer is what he wanted to get.
Mr. REDLICH. I think Congressman Ford is right. We might be able to get
both a copy of the letter and their answer.
Mr. DULLES. Their statement in this letter is the English of the
Russian translation which they sent to her. I think it would be
adequate, wouldn't it?
Mr. REDLICH. Yes.
Mr. DULLES. It seems to me it would be adequate for our purposes.
Mr. REDLICH. We will contact the Dallas Division on that.
Representative FORD. Marina testified here, and she has said elsewhere,
that based on the facts as she now knows them, she believes that Lee
was guilty of the assassination of President Kennedy.
Mr. MARTIN. Yes.
Representative FORD. Was that her attitude when you first met her?
Mr. MARTIN. Well, when I first met her, we didn't converse very well at
all. There was lack of communication because of the language barrier,
and I didn't discuss it with her probably until the latter part of
December, although she was speaking fairly good English by the 15th of
December.
Representative FORD. When you first discussed it with her, what was her
attitude?
Mr. MARTIN. Well, she said she thought he was crazy.
Representative FORD. But did she indicate when you first discussed the
question of guilt or not being guilty, what was her attitude?
Mr. MARTIN. She thought he was guilty.
Representative FORD. The first time you discussed the matter?
Mr. MARTIN. Yes.
Representative FORD. Did she indicate why?
Mr. MARTIN. No. I asked her why, and she said it was just a feeling.