Senator Cooper. Did she ever tell her what her political views were, if any?
Mrs. Paine. She said she didn't consider herself a person interested in politics. She——
Senator Cooper. Did she ever refer to Lee being a Marxist or a Communist?
Mrs. Paine. I don't recall such a reference ever.
Senator Cooper. Did she ever tell you whether or not she was a Marxist or a Communist?
Mrs. Paine. No. I assumed she was not either.
Senator Cooper. What?
Mrs. Paine. I assumed she was not either. She did at one point poke fun at the Party faithful who attended a Young Communist meeting in Minsk, whom she considered a dull lot and the meetings quite dull.
Senator Cooper. I missed the early part of your testimony so you may have testified to this, but I thought that I recalled that you did answer a question addressed to you by someone, a member of the Commission or counsel, in which you said that you were attracted to the Oswalds when you first met them, one, because you wanted to perfect your own Russian, and did you say, too, that you were interested because of the fact that he had been a defector and had returned and it was an unusual circumstance which interested you?
Mrs. Paine. It made him an odd person.