(Testimony of Dennis Hyman Ofstein)
Mr. Jenner.
Not a book?
Mr. Ofstein.
No sir.
Mr. Jenner.
Did you tell him where you had learned Russian?
Mr. Ofstein.
No, sir; I just said while I was in e service I had picked it up.
Mr. Jenner.
. Did he at any e ever say or did you ever get the impression at he had studied Russian while he was in the service?
Mr. Ofstein.
No, sir.
Mr. Jenner.
Your impression was what in that connection?
Mr. Ofstein.
Well, that he could either have learned it while in the Soviet Union or at a school.
Mr. Jenner.
At a private school?
Mr. Ofstein.
Yes; private or public school.
Mr. Jenner.
But not while he was in the service?
Mr. Ofstein.
No, sir; he never led me to believe that.
Mr. Jenner.
The information he gave you with r t to the disposition of military units in Russia--that information was of the character you have already related--that the tanks were in one area?
Mr. Ofstein.
Yes, sir.
Mr. Jenner.
And the other types of equipment in another, and did he tell you where these various units were?
Mr. Ofstein.
The best I recall, he mention that, as I say, that he never saw a vapor trail of a plane around Minsk, and he mentioned the location of the tanks, but I am not sure whether he men on whether it was north or south.
Mr. Jenner.
Of what?
Mr. Ofstein.
In the Soviet Union.
Mr. Jenner.
In relating this to you, was it terms of his having seen these units?
Mr. Ofstein.
That was the impression I got, though he never directly said so.
Mr. Jenner.
Did he say anything about--after you 1 that he was married to a Russian woman did he say anything you about how he had met her and courted her or any of the circumstances with respect to his marrying her?
Mr. Ofstein.
No, sir.
Mr. Jenner.
It was just that he had married a Russian citizen?
Mr. Ofstein.
Right.
Mr. And brought her is county?
Mr. Ofstein.
Yes.
Mr. Jenner.
Did he say a thing about his military career?
Mr. Ofstein.
Only at he had served in the Marines and that he had served in Japan.
Mr. Jenner.
Did he say anything about his discharge from the Marines?
Mr. Ofstein.
No, sir.
Mr. Jenner.
By the way when you first met this man, had you ever heard of him before or anything about him to your then recollection?
Mr. Ofstein.
No, sir.
Mr. Jenner.
What else did he say about the military dispositions?
Mr. Ofstein.
He said he felt it was a rather poor way to distribute the military because of the fact that support needed by one type of unit, such as the infantry, needs tanks--took such a long delay because they had to move it from another segment of the country and that he thought this was a rather or situation.
Mr. Jenner.
Did he say anything about the location of the--these units--were they widely disbursed, that is let's take a tank unit--did you get the impression that the unit would be located far away from Minsk or near Minsk?
Mr. Ofstein.
I believe he said the tanks were in the north and I'm-not familiar whether Minsk is in the north of Russia or not?
Mr. Jenner.
Did you get the impression they were not in Minsk, however?
Mr. Ofstein.
Yes sir.
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