Senator Russell. Over $450 or more to the State Department and some amount to his brother Robert.
Mrs. Oswald. Around $100.
*It was $100.
It was probably $100.
Senator Russell. That's $550, and a person that's earning $200 a month part of the time, and having to support a family, that's a rather remarkable feat, isn't it, of financing?*
*Mrs. Oswald. I think that at the time we were leaving Russia, some of the rubles were exchanged for dollars, and maybe he kept part of that money, of which I have no knowledge, when we arrived in the United States. The only thing I know is that we lived very, very economically and Lee was saying all the time that the debts have to be paid as quickly as possible.
Senator Russell. I was under the impression that there was a very drastic limit on the number of rubles that could be exchanged, that it was a hundred or 130 or something in that area?*
*Mrs. Oswald. According to the law in the Soviet Union, they allow about 90 rubles per person to be exchanged into foreign currency or dollars—$180 in our case because Lee was including the baby, and she——
Senator Russell. For each of them—the exchange.
Mrs. Oswald. Not for Lee.