Mr. JENNER. She worked in his office?
Mr. VOSHININ. Yeah, for half a day--part-time.
Mr. De Mohrenschildt, he was very nice and he said, "Well, I don't have
anything but you can--I want to bring my files in order, you know, and
you help me a little so for sometimes I can give you something to start
with--and I have a big friend of mine, Mr. Henry Rogatz, who is looking
for an assistant. So, he called him on the telephone and he said, "I
have an assistant for you, it's a girl, she can help you in geology and
all your work."
So, Henry hired my wife for that first month at half-day--she worked
half a day for De Mohrenschildt and half a day for Rogatz. And my wife
only worked for De Mohrenschildt, I think, 2 or 3 weeks and then she
moved to Rogatz' office and worked there for the whole day until he
retired--which was about a year and a half ago. So, all that time, my
wife worked for Henry Rogatz.
And De Mohrenschildt, in that winter, divorced his wife and closed his
office.
Mr. JENNER. What year was this?
Mr. VOSHININ. Well, he divorced his wife--that was 1956, I would
say, and he had trouble with his wife, I think, beginning in that
winter--1955 or 1956--and finally he divorced her and after--sometimes
after that he also closed his office. I don't know which year exactly
he closed his office but that must be around 1956.
And then he--after he closed his office, he told all of us that he is
no more interested in opening another office because that's too hard
for him because he has, you know--he had some kind of accident, as I
understand, and he cannot drive too long, he cannot sit too long, and
he has difficulties to concentrate--and, therefore, he has to have an
office where he can--you know, some job which he can walk a little,
consult a little, talk a little, but not too much paperwork. That's
what he explained to me.
Mr. JENNER. Not follow a regimen--be there at 9, have lunch at 12, come
back at 2----
Mr. VOSHININ. Yeah. He says he has difficulties doing that--just
physical difficulties, so he said that he decided to work--to look for
foreign assignments; he said that the Government has that Foreign Aid
Program and in connection with that he will be able to find some kind
of job like that and he says he will go to Washington and there are
some kind of agents called 5-percenters in Washington who you can--if
you find the right man you will get a job.
So, he was traveling back and forth to Washington and so on, and
finally he said he got a job in Yugoslavia; he doesn't like it too much
because he's a little afraid going there but he doesn't have any other
way out because he's broke. So, he went to Yugoslavia and stayed there
for about a year. So, that was----
Mr. JENNER. Was he married then?
Mr. VOSHININ. No; he was not married at that time.
Before that, he met that so-called Mrs. Le Gon, who posed as a French
woman, And he met her at the swimming pool of the Stoneleigh Hotel----
Mr. JENNER. He met her.
Mr. VOSHININ. He met her at the swimming pool of the Stoneleigh
Hotel--because he was living at the Stoneleigh Hotel after his divorce
and she was living there----
Mr. JENNER. Excuse me. He was living there after his divorce--and she
was also living there?
Mr. VOSHININ. She was also living there--yes.
She was, as I understand, a fashion designer, and she traveled to
different cities to sell her ideas, you know, for design. She went to
New York to sell--her permanent residence, as I understand, was Los
Angeles or some suburb thereof. But she used to come here and sell her
fashion designs to somebody called Clarke, I guess. She was--so, she
was temporarily here but pretty often. So, they met there and fell in
love, you know, and though she is Russian, of course, she would not say
a word Russian; she would talk English with a French accent and saying
she was a French woman.
Up to now, I think Mr. De Mohrenschildt does not know everything about
his wife. He told me two times that there is something that he doesn't
understand in her former life and he says that's the part before she
came to the United States; and he says the moment he tries to question
her about that--because he says, "It's my wife, I want to know,"--he
says she's just mute; she doesn't want to talk about it at all.
And we know, for example, that every time she meets some Russian from
China, she doesn't want to talk to them at all. What it was, I don't
know--and even De Mohrenschildt told me he doesn't know.
Mr. JENNER. Is she reputed to have been born in or to have lived in
China?
Mr. VOSHININ. Yes; she is. She was born somewhere in China. Her
father's name was Fomenko, she said--[spelling] F-o-m-e-n-k-o--who was
an engineer on the East Chinese Railroad----
Mr. JENNER. All right.
Can you describe De Mohrenschildt's personality?
Mr. VOSHININ. Well, do you want the further travelings as far as I know?
Mr. JENNER. Yes; please.
Mr. VOSHININ. So, after--well, he went to Yugoslavia in the middle of
that year. When he was in Yugoslavia, she went to visit him there.
Mr. JENNER. His present wife?
Mr. VOSHININ. His present wife.
Mr. JENNER. And, at that time, his present wife was not his wife?
Mr. VOSHININ. No.
Mr. JENNER. All right.
Mr. VOSHININ. They were very much in love, you know--and her husband
who was here two times and he was chasing De Mohrenschildt, and George
De Mohrenschildt says, "He will kill me with a revolver"--and there was
some kind of--we took it more or less of a joke, you know, just as very
cheap movie film. But George De Mohrenschildt was so much afraid that
he even slept in a motel somewhere, not in his Stoneleigh apartment.
And, then, her husband, also, as I understand, hired a detective who
was running constantly De Mohrenschildt--and all kinds of things like
that.
Mr. JENNER. A lot of cloak and dagger?
Mr. VOSHININ. Yeah--cloak and dagger stuff. So after that, they
divorced--she divorced her husband--and, you know, he is now in an
insane--had some kind of nervous breakdown after that, and he is now
in some kind of insane asylum or sanitorium, I don't know what.
Mr. JENNER. In California?
Mr. VOSHININ. In California; yes. Bogoiavlensky is his actual name, not
Le Gon.
Mr. JENNER. Why don't we get your spelling on that name? We had
somebody try it yesterday. Would you----
Mr. VOSHININ. If you give me a pencil, I may try it.
(After writing name, as set out above, hands paper to Mr. Jenner.)