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(Testimony of Igor Vladimir Voshinin)
Mr. Jenner.
All right. You give me his background as you learned it reputation among the people you have described.
Mr. Voshinin.
Yeah.
Well, De Mohrenschildt comes from a Swedish family.
Mr. Jenner.
You mean, by reputation, he was born in Sweden?
Mr. Voshinin.
No. He was born, as I heard, in Baku in Azerbaijan. This is part of Southern Russia and Baku is in Azerbaijan on the Caspian Sea.
Mr. Jenner.
Yes.
Mr. Voshinin.
And I understand that his father was a nobleman and born in Russia somewhere from Swedish parents---and that he was a rich man and.
Mr. Jenner.
His father was a rich man?
Mr. Voshinin.
Yes; and they had some big land, too, and probably some other interests which led him to go to Baku, because Baku is the oil town in Russia.
So, probably a very substantially rich man.
As he said, during the revolution, his father was arrested--I don't know by whom--and I think his mother, too, as I understand, and he, as a small boy, was running on the streets, was completely wild and hungry. And then his father somehow managed, and his mother, managed to get out of prison, and they moved to Poland.
He told us that he got his high school education in Poland and then went to the military school in Poland and finished the military school and became a Polish cavalry officer--and he was proudly showing his picture, you know, of him on a horse in a wonderful uniform. So--but, somehow, he did not like the military life, so he resigned and went to school in France and Belgium, I guess, and, as he told us--I never saw his diploma--but he told us he has a Ph.D. degree in economics.
Mr. Jenner.
From a school in Belgium?
Mr. Voshinin.
Belgium or in France. I don't know. I--you know, I don't like to question people too much.
Mr. Jenner.
No. All you're doing is giving me what he said and what is at large in the community we talked about.
Mr. Voshinin.
Yeah. So--but I don't know exactly, you know, if I would think if it would be of interest for anybody I would try to remember, of course, better but--somewhere, I don't know. He probably told me from which school it was, but I don't remember.
After that, he decided to emigrate to the United States, came here and saw that what he learned was of no use, so he went to school again--and he went to school in Austin.
Mr. Jenner.
Austin, Tex.?
Mr. Voshinin.
Austin, Tex.--and in Colorado. Now, whether it was Colorado the University or Colorado the School of Mines, I don't know. But he finally became a petroleum engineer. As I understand, he earned his master's degree.
After that, he went to work in some southern American country or--I think he was sometime in Mexico and in some other country--I think it was Venezuela, which I'm not sure again, it might be something else. And--uh--then I think he returned here again during the war.
Mr. Jenner.
That's the Second World War?
Mr. Voshinin.
Yes; during the Second World War, and----
Mr. Jenner.
When you say, "returned here," do you mean returned to the Dallas area or to the United States?
Mr. Voshinin.
To the United States.
Mr. Jenner.
All right.
Mr. Voshinin.
What he did during the war, I don't know; but, after the war, he was working for some oil company. I think he had connections with the oil company in which his father-in-law, Sharples, had some interest--because he was receiving some money from that company even after he divorced his wife until it finally stopped. But he was--I remember that he was saying, "Well, they stopped my money I received from the Sharples Co." He says, "Now, they got me with this thing. I am not a consultant any more."
He was some kind of consultant for that company--I don't know what of, the
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