Mrs. Paine.

I think most people are sensitive about using a language where the person they are with can understand them in the language they use better. She also talked with my immediate neighbor for a short time, when only she and the neighbor were present. I went to see about a child.

Mr. Jenner.

Could your neighbor understand Russian?

Mrs. Paine.

No.

Mr. Jenner.

But there was a measure of communication?

Mrs. Paine.

There was some communication, not a great deal. My neighbor told me after she saw Marina on television in January, whatever it was, "that girl has learned a great deal of English." She was amazed at the change.

Representative Ford.

The improvement from October to January?

Mrs. Paine.

Yes.

Mr. Dulles.

How would you appraise her general intelligence, her level of intelligence for a girl of that age in the early twenties?

Mrs. Paine.

I think she certainly had above average intelligence.

Representative Ford.

What prompted her, if you know, to ask about Madam Nhu?

Mrs. Paine.

She was interested in the family. She was worried about what Madam Nhu would do. Madam Nhu and the children still in her country. She wanted to know were these children going to come out either in Paris or the United States. She was concerned, and her concern for world affairs seemed to go this way, of what is this mother and children going to do.

Mr. Jenner.

Was she concerned about the conflict between the North Vietnamese and the South Vietnamese?

Mrs. Paine.

No; this didn't interest her, it didn't appear to.

Mr. Jenner.

It was the human side rather than the political side?

Mrs. Paine.

Strictly that.

Mr. Jenner.

Thank you; that is what I wanted to bring out. I offer in evidence, Mr. Chairman, as Exhibits with those numbers, the documents marked Commission Exhibits 409, 409-A, and 409-B.

Mr. Mccloy.

It may be admitted.
(The documents referred to previously, marked Commission Exhibits Nos 409, 409-A, and 409-B, were received in evidence.)
(At this point, Representative Boggs entered the hearing room.)

Mr. Jenner.

Now, Mrs. Paine, turning to this series of correspondence which has now been admitted in evidence, have you made an interpretation for the Commission of Exhibit 409-B?

Mrs. Paine.

Yes; I have.

Mr. Jenner.

Where does that appear on your summary you furnished to me last evening?

Mrs. Paine.

That begins in the middle of page 6, marked second letter from New Orleans.

Mr. Jenner.

All right. Your interpretation of the letter dealing with the night club visit of the Oswalds, you have interpreted that for the Commission and that appears on page what of your summary?

Mrs. Paine.

That appears on page 3 marked first letter from New Orleans.

Mr. Jenner.

All right. Were you concerned about Mrs. Oswald, about Marina's condition and her receiving proper medical attention?

Mrs. Paine.

I was very concerned about it.

Mr. Jenner.

Did you write her at any time about it?

Mrs. Paine.

I would like to refer you to my letter of June 1st which was returned in the document you just admitted in evidence.

Mr. Jenner.

You did write her about it?

Mrs. Paine.

I wrote particularly in that letter to Lee.

Mr. Jenner.

You wrote both Lee and Marina?

Mrs. Paine.

In this letter I addressed each, and a particular portion of that letter is in English.

Mr. Jenner.

And that is Commission Exhibit No. 409?

Mrs. Paine.

That was to Lee, that particular portion.

Mr. Jenner.

You incorporated, did you not, in that letter, a direct communication to Lee Oswald?