Senator RUSSELL. No; she testified she quit the Youth Movement.*
*Mrs. OSWALD. I was dismissed.
**I was expelled from Komsomol.
Senator RUSSELL. Why--for what reason?*
*Mrs. OSWALD. The reason given to me for being expelled from Komsomol was because I did not get my card, because I did not take out my Komsomol card for 1 year. That was the reason given to me, but I believe the true reason why they expelled me from Komsomol was because I married an American.
It also happened about the time when I visited the American Embassy. I was expelled the following week after I visited the American Embassy in Moscow.
Senator RUSSELL. Did you pay any dues to the Komsomol?

Mrs. Oswald.

Yes; 30*
Yes; 30* every month.
Senator RUSSELL. I thought that practically all young people belonged to the Komsomol?* **

Mrs. Oswald.

No.
Senator RUSSELL. There are many more of them than there are members of the Communist Party, aren't there?*

Mrs. Oswald.

Oh, yes.
Senator RUSSELL. Nearly every city in Russia has a big building, there is a Youth Komsomol Building?*
*Mrs. OSWALD. Yes; I was persuaded or talked into joining the Komsomol organization.
Senator RUSSELL. I thought that was automatic?**

Mrs. Oswald.

No.
No one has to be accepted into Komsomol. It is not automatic.

Representative Boggs.

One further question, and this is off the record.
(Interrogatories and answers off the record at this point.)

Representative Boggs.

In response to Senator Russell, I gathered that you plan to stay in the United States?*
*Mrs. OSWALD. Yes; if possible.

Representative Boggs.

Do you aspire to become a citizen of the United States, or are you a citizen?*
*Mrs. OSWALD. I am not a citizen. I wish to become an American citizen.
Senator RUSSELL. Mrs. Oswald, when you were before us before, you testified that you were not a member of any church, but you had your own religion in your own heart, as I recall?* **
*Mrs. OSWALD. In Russia I did not belong to any church. No one belongs to any church in Russia.
Senator RUSSELL. Except old women?
*Mrs. OSWALD. I'll say this--that I believe it's unhealthy in the Soviet Union to openly belong to any church. While there is no persecution of religious belief in Russia, the officials look at it with much disfavor.
Senator RUSSELL But you are not actually a member of the church, are you?***
**Mrs. OSWALD. In Russian churches, they don't have a fee or they don't have any membership, they have dues in Russian churches.
Senator RUSSELL. But you've not been baptized in any church?*

Mrs. Oswald.

Oh, yes; I have been baptized.
Senator RUSSELL. When were you baptized?

Mrs. Oswald.

I don't remember.
Senator RUSSELL. Are you actually a member of the church?* **
**Mrs. OSWALD. Actually, I am not a member as you know in the United States. However, I belong to the church, the Russian church here in Dallas, and I don't pay dues.
Senator RUSSELL. You are more of a communicant now than you are a member of the church?

Mrs. Oswald.

I think the understanding of church membership is different in the Soviet Union or in the understanding of a person that was brought up in the Soviet Union.
Senator RUSSELL. I am concerned about this testimony, Mrs. Oswald, about

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