Representative Ford.

This is 1963?

Mrs. Paine.

Right. Again, "He has become much more attentive and we hardly quarrel. True I have to give in a great deal. It could not be otherwise. But if one wants peace then it is necessary to give in. We went to the doctor, my condition is normal."
And she thanks me for the invitation and thanks Michael also and says: "I would try to take advantage of it if things really become worse, if Lee. becomes coarse with me again and treats me badly."

Mr. Jenner.

I direct your attention to the paragraph following that one, Mrs. Paine.

Mrs. Paine.

Now another question: "If as is possible it becomes necessary for-me to come to live with you in order to say that I am a dependent of Michael's surely it would be necessary to have an official divorce, isn't that so? But I think Lee would not agree to a divorce, and to go simply from him to become a burden to you that I don't wish. Surely Michael would need to have a paper showing that I am living at his expense but no one would just take his word for it, right?"
And I realized much later-that in the Soviet Union you don't do anything without the proper papers, and just having a person under your roof for anyone to see, having them in fact eating at your table is not, would not be, sufficient proof--would not be sufficient there in Russia.

Representative Boggs.

It might not be here.

Mrs. Paine.

It might not be here. Well, in any case I judged she felt, reading my invitations this was of some importance to me whether Michael counted her as a deduction, and so on, whereas in fact this wasn't the point at all, but that had hoped to somehow make, if possible, for her to accept such help.

Mr. Jenner.

Have you finished your observations?

Representative Boggs.

As a matter of fact, there are certain limitations under our law as to how you can claim a dependent.

Mrs. Paine.

Well, I asked a few people who didn't know much about it before I wrote it.

Representative Boggs.

Yes.

Mr. Jenner.

The tenor then of this letter was as I gather from your testimony and as you have related to me last evening whether she would come to live with you in the fall or generally was something which now became subject to reconsideration?

Mrs. Paine.

Pardon?

Mr. Jenner.

The matter of her coming to live with you, the possibility of her living with you on a more extended basis than--

Mrs. Paine.

Was an invitation 1 had made to her.

Mr. Jenner.

And that her response was not acceptance but one that she would now defer?

Mrs. Paine.

It was a "thank you" and a refusal basically.

Mr. Jenner.

Did you respond to that letter?

Mrs. Paine.

Yes; I did. My letter is dated July 12.

Mr. Jenner.

Mr. Liebeler will mark that Commission Exhibit 416, which consists of how many pages, Mr. Liebeler, three pages. You have that exhibit, is that exhibit all in your handwriting?

Mrs. Paine.

Yes; it is.

Mr. Jenner.

Is that the draft of letter to which you have reference being your response to Marina's letter of--

Mrs. Paine.

Undated letter.

Mr. Jenner.

Undated letter which would be somewhere just prior to July 21?

Mrs. Paine.

Right.

Mr. Jenner.

And is that a draft of letter in the same condition now as it was when you completed it?

Mrs. Paine.

Yes.

Mr. Jenner.

Have you supplied the Commission with a translation of that letter?

Mrs. Paine.

I have.

Mr. Jenner.

We will mark as Commission Exhibits 417 and 418 two exhibits, the first being a one-page exhibit entitled "Translation from Russian", and