Mr. De Mohrenschildt. I never would believe that any government would be stupid enough to trust Lee with anything important.
Mr. Jenner. Give me the basis of your opinion.
Mr. De Mohrenschildt. Well, again, as I said, an unstable individual, mixed-up individual, uneducated individual, without background. What government would give him any confidential work? No government would. Even the government of Ghana would not give him any job of any type.
Mr. Jenner. You used the expression "unstable." Would you elaborate on that?
Mr. De Mohrenschildt. Well, unstability—his life is an example of his instability. He switched allegiance from one country to another, and then back again, disappointed in this, disappointed in that, tried various jobs. But he did it, you see, without the enjoyment of adventure—like some other people would do in the United States, a new job is a new adventure, new opportunities. For him it was a gruesome deal. He hated his jobs. He switched all the time.
Mr. Jenner. Now, let's assume he switched jobs because he was discharged from those jobs. Does that affect your opinion? That is, assume now for the purpose of discussion that he lost every one of his jobs.
Mr. De Mohrenschildt. Well, frankly, if I—you always base your opinion on your own experience. If I had my own country since my childbirth, and my government, I would remain faithful to it for the rest of my life. He had a chance to be a marine. Here was a perfect life for him—this was my point of view. He was a man without education, in the Marines—why didn't he stay in the Marines all his life? You don't need a high degree of intelligence to be a marine corporal or a soldier.
Mr. Jenner. That is, it was your thought——
Mr. De Mohrenschildt. That was my idea.
Mr. Jenner. That if he had an objective that he could have had, it would be to stay in the Marines and become a marine officer, and have a career in the Marines.