But when you say he switched from 225 to 201, 225 was an outside room, the kind that foreigners have, and it would probably be bugged, and it would be for foreign guests coming in on Intourist. I don't remember room 201, but the chances are it was an inside room. It might have been very small. It might or might not have had a bath attached to it, and the rate for it could have been as low as $1.50 a day. And they could have been either accommodating him because of their interest in him, or because they were simply responding to his financial situation while pending a decision on his request to stay.
Mr. Slawson. While we are on this subject—how much he was paying for his hotel room and his finances generally—I am not clear whether you were able to get some kind of indication out of him whether he was paying the $30 a day or simply the lower, something like $3 a day.
Miss Johnson. You see he said he had been there since 10 days—perhaps what he said was since being there for 10 days on Intourist at $30 a day "I have been paying the standard room and food rate." That is probably how I should read my own notes.
"I want to make it clear they are not sponsoring me." Your question is?
Mr. Slawson. I am trying to establish what your impression was at the time of how much he was paying for that hotel room.
Miss Johnson. At the time I was very unclear what he was paying. I think now he must have been paying $30 for the 10 days after his arrival in October, and $3 a day after that until he left room 225. What he was paying when he moved into room 201 I don't know.
Mr. Mosk. That was $30 a day the first 10 days?
Miss Johnson. Yes, $300 for the first 10 days. Probably after that $3 a day, and after that I don't know.
Mr. Slawson. Are meals included in that $30 a day?
Miss Johnson. Meals are included, but they wouldn't have been included once he went off it.