Mr. Dulles. Did they try to recruit you at all or to get you to be a member or attend or join meetings?
Mr. Paine. No; they were glad to meet Lyman's son. That is he would introduce me to friends or people he knew there, and I liked—I had some favorable attitudes to the zeal of the group or the zeal of the assembled people.
They were fully committed to what they believed in. I had my own dreams of how I would like to see society at the time and it wasn't along the same line.
So, I felt happy to have them there and I would go my course and just—I didn't feel opposed to them; neither did I feel drawn to them, although I tried to read some of Das Kapital at that time and Communist manifesto.
Mr. Liebeler. Did you ever join any of these organizations?
Mr. Paine. Well, I didn't know of any organization as such.
I went to this meeting in downtown New York. I didn't know—so therefore I knew three groups. Maybe it was the Socialist group and the Stalinist group and I think the group that Lyman was in, I don't know, maybe he was a Socialist.
Mr. Liebeler. Which was the second group, was it the Stalinist?
Mr. Paine. I mentioned the Stalinist, Dubinsky, David Dubinsky, was the only name I remember aside from Stalin, was a name I remember there, and I can't now remember whose side who was on.
Mr. Liebeler. Do you have any clear recollection of what particular group your father was associated with?