Mrs. Paine. Whether it is important?
Mr. Jenner. You haven't related this to me. Are these statements you made to the FBI that you are about to relate?
Mrs. Paine. If they asked. I don't recall specifically. I certainly recall that the content of the telephone conversation reported there is accurate and is in sum the conversation that then followed with Lonny Hudkins too, except that it doesn't say what I said in the situation.
Mr. Jenner. Did you report to the FBI that Mr. Hudkins had said to you that the primary purpose of seeing you was an effort to get some confirmation if possible of the possibility Oswald was actually working on behalf of the United States Government prior to the assassination?
Mrs. Paine. I was aware that was his purpose.
Mr. Jenner. That you knew of no such situation, and ventured the opinion to the reporter that the story was wholly unlikely, that you could not imagine anyone having that much confidence in Oswald?
Mrs. Paine. That is accurate. I went on to say that Mrs. Oswald, senior, Mrs. Marguerite Oswald, could well have said to this matron a full year back and more that her son was doing important anti-subversive work for the government. This was 1962 he was talking about, but that this was her opinion or what she may have wished to have true. And I did not consider it terribly creditable, and said to him "You don't think you have a story here, do you?"
Mr. Jenner. You also recall——
Mrs. Paine. May I put in another point here?
Mr. Jenner. In connection with this subject matter?