Senator Cooper. You said that, in answer to counsel that, you either did tell people or probably told them that you believed Lee Oswald was a Communist.
Mrs. Paine. It is my impression I spoke of him as he spoke of himself as a Marxist.
Senator Cooper. And you think, you believe, that has some relationship to communism?
Mrs. Paine. Oh; yes.
Senator Cooper. I think you have stated that you didn't believe it was necessary for a person to actually be a member of the Communist Party to be a Communist in his views?
Mrs. Paine. Yes. But that I considered it something less than actually accurate to call such a person a Communist that went on being——
Senator Cooper. Other than the persons you have named in your testimony as having come to your house, was there anyone else who ever came to your house, who talked to Lee Oswald or Marina?
Mrs. Paine. I recall no one other than the people I have mentioned, sir.
Senator Cooper. Knowing that he was as you have described in your own words, a Marxist, were you concerned at all about that or worried about that, as being in your home?
Mrs. Paine. Well, as I have described in testimony, I asked myself whether or not he might be a spy. I was not at all worried about ideology contrary to my own or with which I disagreed, and it looked to me that he was a person of this ideology or philosophy which he calls Marxism, indeed nearly a religion.