Mrs. Paine. Briefly.
Mr. Jenner. And what conclusions did you come to on that score and why?
Mrs. Paine. I thought that he was not very intelligent. I saw as far as I could see he had no particular contacts. He was not a person I would have hired for a job of any sort, no more than I would have let him borrow my car.
Mr. Jenner. Did you give consideration in that connection? Did his level of intelligence affect your judgment as to whether the Russian Government would have hired him?
Mrs. Paine. Yes.
Mr. Jenner. How did it affect you?
Mrs. Paine. I doubted they would have hired him. I kept my mind open on it to wonder.
Mr. Jenner. And you had doubt why?
Mrs. Paine. Simply because he had gone to the Soviet Union and announced that he wanted to stay, and then came back, and I wasn't convinced that he liked America.
Mr. Jenner. Did your judgment of him, and as to his level of intelligence, affect your decision ultimately that the Russian Government might not or would not have hired him because he was not a man of capacity to serve in such a way for the Russian Government?