Mr. Liebeler. Did you talk to Marina again on the telephone after this first time?
Mrs. Ford. Yes; I talked to her on the telephone because through my husband's brother who is a professor in one of the universities in California, he had a friend by the name of Isaac Levine who does write, who speaks Russian and writes rather—he wrote a book of on the mind of the assassin, Trotsky's story. He wanted to contact me and to find out if Marina had signed a contract on writing a book. So I told him that I would call the managers, since there was published in the newspaper at that time, and to find out if they did, and I did call. I called her lawyer and I asked if she signed for a book, and I called Levine long distance and told him she did not have a contract signed. Then he told me that he would like—he wanted to know if he could arrange to see Marina, and I told him that I would ask the manager and he told me to contact, for Levine to contact, the attorney and the manager. I saw later on they have somehow gotten together. I think he wrote to them.
Mr. Liebeler. Did there come a time when Marina came to your house to visit?
Mrs. Ford. Yes; she brought a letter she wanted me to translate. It was after this, after I had a contact about the writer Marina called me, this is the first time, the first time after the assassination that she called me on the telephone and we talked about that and I told her that the man had contacted me and he speaks Russian. I thought it would be a good opportunity for her to write if she wanted to since she could communicate easily with a writer that speaks Russian. I read his book that he sent me, and he makes real sense. I invited her to come out to dinner and, of course, I didn't expect that there would be a whole company with her.
Mr. Liebeler. Did she come out?
Mrs. Ford. Yes; they did, they came out, the Secret Service and the manager were there and everybody so I cooked a Russian dinner.
Mr. Liebeler. Can you tell us approximately when that was?
Mrs. Ford. It was shortly before the Commission, maybe about 2 weeks before the Commission.
Mr. Liebeler. Late in January sometime?
Mrs. Ford. Yes.