Mrs. Paine. That and the fact that as far as I could see had no contacts or any means of getting any information that would have been of any interest to the Soviet Union.
Senator Cooper. Yet he was intelligent enough that he had learned to speak Russian.
Mrs. Paine. His Russian was poor. His vocabulary was large, his grammar never was good.
Senator Cooper. You said that he had, I believe, had the initiative to go to Russia, not as a tourist but as for reasons that he had developed himself, and that he came back when he made up his mind to come and was able to bring his wife.
You knew he moved around rather quickly, didn't you? He was in New Orleans——
Mrs. Paine. In this country?
Senator Cooper. Yes.
Mrs. Paine. No, I knew he had been in Fort Worth and had come to Dallas to seek work and then losing work had gone back to New Orleans and then back to Dallas.
Senator Cooper. What made you willing to have this man, you have said, this very curious man, from all you have described about him, to have him in your house?
Mrs. Paine. He was Marina's husband and I like her, and I, as I have described, was both lonely and interested in learning the Russian language. I would have been happy had he never come out, indeed happier had he not come out on the weekends.