He is a wealthy man?
Mr. DE MOHRENSCHILDT. Relatively wealthy man, well-to-do. He has had many, many, many years--many more than all of us, in the oil business.

Mr. Jenner.

Never part of the community?
Mr. DE MOHRENSCHILDT. We all knew him. Because there are so few people in this geological field. And he is an old acquaintance of mine.

Mr. Jenner.

Now, there was a Professor Jitkoff in Houston?
Mr. DE MOHRENSCHILDT. Yes.

Mr. Jenner.

What is his first name?
Mr. DE MOHRENSCHILDT. I don't remember. I just met him once or twice. I know his wife better.

Mr. Jenner.

IS his wife also a Russian emigre?
Mr. DE MOHRENSCHILDT. I think she is of Armenian, or Russian and Armenian, extraction.

Mr. Jenner.

In what connection did you meet him?
Mr. DE MOHRENSCHILDT. Already a long time ago. Oh, yes; I met him through another Russian, through ballerina, a Russian ballerina, another one who lived there Natasha Krosofska, a famous ballerina.

Mr. Jenner.

I am thinking of another name in Dallas, Mrs. Helen Leslie.
Mr. DE MOHRENSCHILDT. Yes; that is her stepmother--the stepmother of the ballerina.

Mr. Jenner.

She was part of the Russian group?
Mr. DE MOHRENSCHILDT. Yes; also from a typical old guard family--really hundred percent. To show you the atmosphere who does not believe there are any new houses built in Russia today? She said in her opinion the Russia of today doesn't have any new houses, none whatsoever---only the old palaces from the czarist days.

Mr. Jenner.

I interrupted you.
Mr. DE MOHRENSCHILDT. The really backward type old guard people. I am glad that you made such a distinction there.

Mr. Jenner.

Is this old guard group a group that would be inclined to believe that if an American went to Russia and came back with a Russian wife, that that necessarily would mean that he must have had some connections of some kind with the Communists in order to get a Russian wife out of Russia?
Mr. DE MOHRENSCHILDT. That is an interesting question. They might believe anything, because they think that the Russians are such devils that they would go to any extent of diabolical combinations to do something like that.

Mr. Jenner.

Now, among the Russian emigre group in Dallas, did you ever know of anybody that you even thought might be a Communist?
Mr. DE MOHRENSCHILDT. Not a single one.

Mr. Jenner.

Or have any leanings toward communism?
Mr. DE MOHRENSCHILDT. No; no leanings even. I am probably the most leftest of them all.

Mr. Jenner.

And you do not----
Mr. DE MOHRENSCHILDT. And as you know, I am not a member of any party.

Mr. Jenner.

And you do not regard yourself as a Communist?
Mr. DE MOHRENSCHILDT. No. Not only do I not regard--I just am not. But I am probably the only one who has been in the Communist country, because of my job with ICA, and also, I forgot to tell you that I had visited Poland in 1958, after my job with ICA. I went to visit Poland, as a tourist, to see what happened to my ex-country. I Just went there for a period of 10 days, to Warsaw, and then went to Sweden from there, and then returned back to the, States.

Mr. Jenner.

This was after----
Mr. DE MOHRENSCHILDT. After I finish my job in Yugoslavia.

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