Mr. Jenner. I see. You did not discuss the United States of America as such?
Mr. Thornley. No.
Mr. Jenner. And the Soviet Union as such, and compared the two countries?
Mr. Thornley. Well, as I say, you couldn't do this with Oswald because whenever you tried to make any statement about the Soviet Union he would challenge it on the grounds that we were probably propagandized in this country and we had no knowledge of what was going on over there.
Mr. Jenner. Did he purport to know what was going on over there?
Mr. Thornley. No.
Mr. Jenner. Did he show any interest in what was going on over there?
Mr. Thornley. He definitely showed interest.
Mr. Jenner. Give us some examples and tell us.
Mr. Thornley. I would say he took an agnostical approach to this. It seemed that he didn't know whether to believe what he read in his Russian newspaper, not that he used those exact words, or what he heard in this country. He took the attitude that "Well, they may be right and we may be right but I suspect they are right." This, of course, once again, I always got the impression in any of these discussions that part of his slight bias toward the Communist way of life was an act of rebellion against the present circumstances.