Mrs. Paine.

This would have been one of the subjects of the committee meeting.

Mr. Jenner.

Is there, or was there a Russian Friends group in Wallingford, in Philadelphia?

Mrs. Paine.

You mean people who were both Russian and Quakers?

Mr. Jenner.

I am not too sure just what I do mean, because my information is so limited.

Mrs. Paine.

It brings nothing to my mind.

Mr. Jenner.

It does not?

Mrs. Paine.

No.

Mr. Jenner.

It would appear that this was, my notes are a little garbled, I see, that the three Soviet students to whom you made reference yesterday came over here in 1958. Is that correct?

Mrs. Paine.

That fits with my memory of it.

Mr. Jenner.

And it was the Young Friends group in which you were interested which stimulated, in cooperation with the State Department, as I recall it, bringing of these three young Soviet students over here?

Mrs. Paine.

We sought advice from the State Department; yes; and the American Friends Service Committee, also.

Mr. Jenner.

And we covered that yesterday so we needn't trouble you with again. Your only participation or contact with these three Soviet students, I understand from your testimony, was you attended one meeting--was it a dinner--and you had no other contacts with them, either before or after?

Mrs. Paine.

That is correct.

Mr. Jenner.

They went on from--where was this, in Philadelphia?

Mrs. Paine.

Yes.

Mr. Jenner.

And they went on from there to see other parts of America?

Mrs. Paine.

That is right.

Mr. Jenner.

Have you ever met knowingly, that is, that you knew, any Russian people other than these three Russian students and Marina, that is say up to November 22----

Mrs. Paine.

You mean people who had been born there?

Mr. Jenner.

Yes. Well, of course, your golden age group. There were some who had been born in Russia.

Mrs. Paine.

A great many. I am not certain where Mrs. Gravitis was born. I think she was born in Latvia. Any such contact was certainly in very brief passing, as, for instance, I met a group that had come to Dallas to play chamber music. They were all from Soviet Armenia, and talked with these people. That was a year ago. But if there were any other contacts they were of that sort.

Mr. Jenner.

Have you, in these long tedious days that we have had with you, pretty well exhausted all of your contacts with any native Russians or any Russians who were naturalized Americans, and indicated the character of your contacts with them?

Mrs. Paine.

Yes; I believe so.

Mr. Jenner.

You are perfectly free to add any others, if you wish.

Mrs. Paine.

I don't think of any particular contact.

Mr. Jenner.

Would it be a fair summary on my part to say that your contact with these people had been largely either in connection with your interest in the Quaker Friends groups and their activities, and your work in furthering their activities, your avid interest in the study of and improvement of your command of the Russian language and then your contacts with Marina Oswald and Lee Oswald?

Mrs. Paine.

I would say it was mostly the latter. I met very few native Russians through my interest in Friends, but through being interested in Russian there were a good many native Russians at the Middlebury College, for instance, and the Berlitz teachers have to speak natively whether or not they were born in Russia, so that these would be my contacts.

Mr. Jenner.

Your pen pal correspondent in Russia, at least the second was Nina Atarina?

Mrs. Paine.

Aparina, A-p-a-r-i-n-a.