Mr. De Mohrenschildt. Yes. I thought he was born in 1900.
Mr. Jenner. Well, his records at the passport office give his birth as March 29, 1902, and he gives his birth in his biographical material at Dartmouth and Yale.
Mr. De Mohrenschildt. Well, anyway, he was a young edition of a midshipman. He was a midshipman in 1918, which is like graduation from Annapolis here.
Mr. Jenner. And did he actually serve in the Czarist Navy?
Mr. De Mohrenschildt. All the time you are in that school you are in the navy, all the time—even when you are 12 years old, you are a member of the navy. It is not like here.
Mr. Jenner. Did he participate in World War I, in the late 1918 period of fighting.
Mr. De Mohrenschildt. Yes.
Mr. Jenner. Do you recall where?
Mr. De Mohrenschildt. I don't recall where. He joined anti-Communist groups, was finally caught by the Communists, and sentenced to death in a town called Smolensk.
Here we were coming back to our—we were already in Minsk at the time, that was not too far. My brother was in Smolensk in jail, in a Communist jail. My father also in jail. And I was the only one at liberty. And my mother was running around trying to help both of them.