Mr. JENNER. The Party? Those are the words he used--the expression,
rather?
Mrs. BATES. Uh-huh.
And he said you couldn't talk, you couldn't express anything because
there was always a party person around and he'd report you.
Mr. JENNER. Uh-huh.
Mrs. BATES. He didn't talk very much. Just helped me with the
translation and the notes--to read them.
Mr. JENNER. Did he say anything to you about any effort on his part to
become a citizen of Russia?
Mrs. BATES. Didn't know anything about it. Oh, another thing he said
that he was very bitter about--he went over there on a 2-year visa and,
of course, he married Marina. At the end of the 2 years when he wanted
to leave, they wouldn't let him bring her back. They said, "You go
ahead and we'll send her to you."
"Well, of course," he said, "I knew I'd never see her again."
So, he stayed 11 months longer until he could get her and he raised so
much cain until they finally let him.
Mr. JENNER. Raised cain with whom?
Mrs. BATES. The Russians.
Mr. JENNER. Uh-huh.
Mrs. BATES. He wouldn't leave--his visa was out but he wouldn't leave
until they let her go.
Mr. JENNER. Uh-huh.
Did he express orally to you any views or opinions respecting the
Government of the United States?
Mrs. BATES. Never.
Mr. JENNER. Did you gather anything with respect to his attitude toward
the United States?
Mrs. BATES. No; I've thought and thought--and, of course, I've been
asked questions all along. And he didn't discuss anything. If you got
10 words out of him at a time, you were doing good. He just didn't
talk--except explaining those notes and, at times, he would go into
detail on them. Conversations--he had actual conversations that he had
had with different people over there.
Mr. JENNER. Oh, he had?
Mrs. BATES. If you could find those notes, I tell you--they were
fascinating to read. "Inside Russia"--was what it was. And they were
coherent and they were well written. And he had them all in sequence.
I mean, they weren't just haphazard. He had them all in sequence
according to city and dates and things like that.
Mr. JENNER. How was his spelling?
Mrs. BATES. Well, the English was fair.
Mr. JENNER. The spelling?
Mrs. BATES. Yeah.
Mr. JENNER. He was an accurate speller?
Mrs. BATES. Fair.
Mr. JENNER. He had misspelled words, though, occasionally?
Mrs. BATES. Oh, yeah. Mostly, I'd say, I don't know whether it was
misspelled or just that he got in a hurry and left letters out. But
there's very few men that are good spellers. I shouldn't say that but
it's----
Mr. JENNER. I am--when I have my secretary.
Mrs. BATES. Yeah [laughter].
College students are notoriously bad spellers.
Mr. JENNER. Particularly law students.
Mrs. BATES. Well--no--particularly psychology majors. They're terrible!
Mr. JENNER. Did you type all of his notes?
Mrs. BATES. No; not even a third of them.
Mr. JENNER. Tell me that circumstance.
Mrs. BATES. Well, on the 20th, he came up and he was--uh--quite
nervous. Uh--the other 2 days, he'd sit right there at my desk
and--uh--if I needed to ask him anything, why I would. But this day,
he was walking up and down and looking over my shoulder and wanting
to know where I was--and, finally, I finished the 10th page. He said,
"Now, Pauline, you told me what your charges were." He said, "This is 8
hours you've worked and 10 pages. I have $10, and no more money. And I
can't let you go on."
And that's when I asked him if I couldn't go on and type the rest of
them. I told him I'd do it for nothing, or if he got the money, why he
could pay me.
And he said, "No, I don't work that way. I've got $10." And he pulled a
$10 bill out of his pocket and walked out.
Mr. JENNER. Were you in possession of these notes from day to day or
did he take them back with him at night?
Mrs. BATES. Oh, he took them with him. He never left anything. And he
never left the office until he had picked up what I had typed--even the
carbon paper.
Mr. JENNER. Even the carbon paper?
Mrs. BATES. Oh yeah. He took the carbon paper.
He did tell me that--I think it was the second day--that there was
a man in Fort Worth--and he's an engineer. I can't remember. I've
scratched my brain on that, too, trying to remember--I just saw the
letterhead for a minute--that was interested in having these notes put
into book form--manuscript form.
Mr. JENNER. Does the name George De Mohrenschildt refresh your
recollection?
Mrs. BATES. No. Uh--I just got a glimpse of the letterhead, and it
didn't register with me.
Mr. JENNER. But it sounded like a man who is an engineer?
Mrs. BATES. He said he was an engineer--he told me that. But there's
lots of engineers in----
Mr. JENNER. Oh, yes.
Mrs. BATES. And that he was interested in helping Lee get these notes
published. And he said, of course, he would have to change names and
things like that. He had actual Russian names of people he talked to.
And in order to protect people, he'd have to change the names. But the
man was willing to--uh--wanted to go ahead. He had read all the notes.
I never did read all of them. Now, this is what Lee told me.