Mr. Ofstein. No; he mentioned the last day he was with Jaggars-Chiles-Stovall—I asked him what he was going to do, where he would go to work, and he said he didn't know. He liked the type of work at the company and that he would like to stay with this type of work and he would look around and if he didn't find anything else he could always go back to the Soviet Union, and sort of laughed about it.
Mr. Jenner. Do you think that comment of his with respect to returning to the Soviet Union was jocular?
Mr. Ofstein. Yes; it was sort of a flippant remark—"If I don't get a job here, I can go someplace else," and I mentioned at the time to him of a couple other shops around town that did that kind of work and suggested that he go see them.
Mr. Jenner. What was his response, if any, to that?
Mr. Ofstein. He said he might give them a try.
Mr. Jenner. This was at the tail end of his employment with this company?
Mr. Ofstein. Yes; this was the last day.
Mr. Jenner. How did he appear that day or react to the news which he received that his employment was being terminated?
Mr. Ofstein. He seemed like he was calm, just like any other day except that he told me this was his last day with the company and more or less like it was just the end of the job and he was going to try to find another one.
Mr. Jenner. Did he say anything of whether he had been let out or whether he had quit?