I make repeated trips to the passport & visa office, also to Ministry of For. Affairs in Minsk, also Min. of Internal Affairs, all of which have a say in the granting of a visa. I extrackted promises of quick attention to us.722

For September through October 18, "No word from Min. ('They'11 call us.')." 723

Marina testified that when the news of her visit to the American Embassy in July reached Minsk, she was dropped from membership in "Komsomol," the Communist Youth Organization, 724 and that "meetings were arranged" at which "members of the various organizations" attempted to dissuade her from leaving the Soviet Union.725 Her aunt and uncle did not speak to her for "a long time." 726 Paul Gregory, to whom Marina taught Russian in the United States, testified that she once referred to this period of her life in Minsk as "a very horrible time." 727

Oswald wrote to the Embassy again on October 4, to request that the U.S. Government officially intervene to facilitate his and his wife's applications for exit visas.728 He stated that there had been "systematic and concerted attempts to intimidate [Marina] * * * into with-