Mrs. Oswald.

I never wrote to him. I don't know. I don't know where he got that name from.

Mr. Rankin.

Did your husband say anything about Comrade Kostin and his visit with him at the embassy in Mexico City, when he told you about the trip?

Mrs. Oswald.

He did not name him. He didn't tell me his name. But he told me he was a very pleasant, sympathetic person, who greeted him, welcomed him there.

Mr. Rankin.

Did your husband say anything to you about what he meant when he said he could not take a chance on requesting a new visa unless he used a real name, so he returned to the United States?

Mrs. Oswald.

No, he didn't tell me about

Mr. Rankin.

Did you understand that he had used any assumed name about going to Mexico?

Mrs. Oswald.

No.

Mr. Rankin.

He never told you anything of that kind?

Mrs. Oswald.

No. After Lee returned from Mexico, I lived in Dallas, and Lee gave me his phone number and then when he changed his apartment--Lee lived in Dallas, and he gave me his phone number. And then when he moved, he left me another phone number.
And once when he did not come to visit during the weekend, I telephoned him and asked for him by name rather, Ruth telephoned him and it turned out there was no one there by that name. When he telephoned me again on Monday, I told him that we had telephoned him but he was unknown at that number.
Then he said that he had lived there under an assumed name. He asked me to remove the notation of the telephone number in Ruth's phone book, but I didn't want to do that. I asked him then, "Why did you give us a phone number, when we do call we cannot get you by name?"
He was very angry, and he repeated that I should remove the notation of the phone number from the phone book. And, of course, we had a quarrel. I told him that this was another of his foolishness, some more of his foolishness. I told Ruth Paine about this. It was incomprehensible to me why he was so secretive all the time.

Mr. Rankin.

Did he give you any explanation of why he was using an assumed name at that time?

Mrs. Oswald.

He said that he did not want his landlady to know his real name because she might read in the paper of the fact that he had been in Russia and that he had been questioned.

Mr. Rankin.

What did you say about that?

Mrs. Oswald.

Nothing. And also he did not want the FBI to know where he lived.

Mr. Rankin.

Did he tell you why he did not want the FBI to know where he lived?

Mrs. Oswald.

Because their visits were not very pleasant for him and he thought that he loses jobs because the FBI visits the place of his employment.

Mr. Rankin.

Now, if he was using an assumed name during the trip in Mexico, you didn't know about it, is that correct?

Mrs. Oswald.

I didn't know, that is correct.

Mr. Rankin.

Before the trip to Mexico, did your husband tell you that he did not expect to contact the Soviet Embassy there about the visa?

Mrs. Oswald.

He said that he was going to visit the Soviet Embassy, but more for the purpose of getting to Cuba, to try to get to Cuba. I think that was more than anything a masking of his purpose. He thought that this would help.

Mr. Rankin.

You mean it was a masking of his purpose to visit the Soviet Embassy in Mexico, or to write it in this letter?

Mrs. Oswald.

I don't understand the question.

Mr. Rankin.

You noticed where he said in this letter "I had not planned to contact the Soviet Embassy in Mexico," did you not?

Mrs. Oswald.

Why hadn't he planned that?

Mr. Rankin.

That is what I am trying to find out from you.
Did he ever tell you that he didn't plan to visit the Soviet Embassy?

Mrs. Oswald.

This is not the truth. He did want to contact the embassy.