Mrs. Paine.

I say in Russian a few words to Lee now about hospital and money.

Mr. Jenner.

But incorporated in your note in that letter to Lee Oswald you used the English rather than the Russian language, did you not?

Mrs. Paine.

I wanted to speak of things I couldn't say in Russian. I didn't
have the vocabulary to do it with any ease in Russian.

Mr. Jenner.

I see.

Mrs. Paine.

And further I particularly wanted to tell him I thought it important she get to a doctor and have prenatal care and felt he would be the one who actually got her there. It was his concern that would produce a visit to the doctor.

Mr. Jenner.

I see. That explains that portion of the letter which is Commission Exhibit No. 409.

Mrs. Paine.

409.

Mr. Jenner.

I won't go into the details, Mr. Chairman, because these are recommendations of Mrs. Paine for medical care of Marina Oswald.

Mr. Mccloy.

Do I understand you are going to read all of these into the record at the noon hour?

Mr. Jenner.

At the noon hour I will read all of these into the record rather than do it now. Now you, last night, Mrs Paine, suggested to me you would like to make an explanation of this series of letters, and I direct your attention to page 7 of your notes.

Mrs. Paine.

Well, the commentary on page 7 by me is--

Mr. Jenner.

Refreshing your recollection from having read it, you would like to make a statement to the Commission and you may proceed to do so.

Mrs. Paine.

It doesn't refresh me enough. I could say this. That when I received 409-B, her letter, I read it through. I glanced at 409, her corrected--my letter which she had corrected, and at the note at the back which began, "You write well" and assumed this to be commentary on my letter; it was not until I sat down nearly a month later to write a proper reply to her, I read this through more carefully and found in the middle of the paragraph discussing my writing a comment by her saying, "Very likely I will have to go back to Russia after all."

Mr. Jenner.

For the purpose of the record there appears the red crayon to which I earlier drew your attention on the back of page 3.
Would you read that entire notation of hers so that the Commission may now know that to which you are now directing your attention?

Mrs. Paine.

In the back of my letter she writes in red pencil, "You write well, when will I write that way in English. I think never. Very likely I will have to go back to Russia after all. A pity."

Mr. Dulles.

What was the last?

Mrs. Paine.

"A pity."

Mr. Jenner.

I take it when you first read that notation on the back of the third page of the letter you had not noticed the sentence, "Very likely I will have
to go to Russia after all. A pity."

Mrs. Paine.

Yes.

Mr. Jenner.

Would you proceed with your comment?

Mrs. Paine.

This was early July when I read this letter more carefully and I was shocked that I hadn't noticed this. That my poor Russian made a scanning of the letter not adequate to picking that up, and I wrote her immediately apologizing for my bad understanding, and I don't have that letter, but I have three which followed it, and--

Mr. Jenner.

Excuse me. Do you have a draft, have you produced for the Commission your immediate preceding draft of that letter?

Mrs. Paine.

I have no rough draft of my first letter explaining my shock and
my worry at this statement of hers.

Mr. Jenner.

I see.

Mrs. Paine.

But I have rough drafts of three letters I wrote subsequently.

Mr. Jenner.

Have you ever seen at any time a copy or the original of the

letter that you wrote, a draft of which you do not have?

Mrs. Paine.

No; I haven't.

Mr. Jenner.

Would you please relate to the Commission your present recollection of the substance and content of that letter?