Mr. Dulles. I asked about Argentinians but I would be glad to have you add the Cubans to it, too.
Mrs. Oswald. There is agreement between the Cuban Government and the Russian Government; and the Cuban Government under this agreement sends Cuban students to study in the Soviet Union.
From what I could tell from what Lee said, many of these Cuban students were not satisfied with life in the Soviet Union, and this Argentinian girl told me the same thing. Many of them thought that, they were not satisfied with conditions in the Soviet Union and thought if Castro were to be in power that the conditions in Cuba would become similar to those in the Soviet Union and they were not satisfied with this. They said it wasn't worth while carrying out a revolution just to have the kind of life that these people in the Soviet Union had.
Representative Ford. Would you have any idea how many Cubans were in school in Minsk?
Mrs. Oswald. I heard the figure of 300 but I never knew even a single one.
Representative Ford. Could you be more helpful in the kind of schools they went to, what were the schools?
Mrs. Oswald. Most of them were in agricultural institutes. Some were in the institute of foreign languages where they spent a year studying Russian in order subsequently to go on into some other institute where they could study some more formal subject or some more formal discipline.
Representative Ford. About how old were these students?
Mrs. Oswald. About between 17 and 21.
Mr. Dulles. Was your husband absent from you during any protracted period after your marriage, and during your stay in Minsk other than the trip I think he took one trip to Moscow without you.