I then asked him—I continued to probe and see where I could find a chink in his armor some place.
And I think that the initial chink which I found was regarding his relatives and place of residence in the United States.
I had his passport. I don't recall whether he handed it to me, though he probably did, or whether I asked him for it.
I noted that on the inside of the cover page of his passport his home address had been crossed out.
When I asked him where he lived, he declined to tell me. When I asked him about his relatives—I had noted from his passport that he was 20 years old. When I asked him about his relatives, he also said this was none of my business, and would I please get on with the business.
Well, I told him at that time, or fairly early in the interview, having found this kind of chink I could work on, I told him that I would have to know certainly where he lived in the United States in order to do anything else with his case.
At that stage, he kind of hemmed and hawed a bit and said—well, I live at so and so. And from there on it opened the crack a little bit, and I found his mother also lived at that—that this was the address of his mother, and probing further I found out about his Marine background, and that he had been recently discharged.
I questioned him a bit about where he had applied for his passport, and how he had come to the Soviet Union, and had he gone home to see his mother, and things of this sort.
Some of these questions he answered, and some he didn't. However, he did not seem quite, as I recall—quite so adamant about refusing this kind of question as he did about questions closer to the bone. That is, what knowledge do you have of Marxism, or where did you first come across this, or did you meet someone in the Marines?
Representative Ford. Did you go into those questions in your probing with him?