Mr. JENNER. Then, I'll ask you this general question--would you please state all you know about George De Mohrenschildt, and you are free, in making the statement, to give your impressions and take it as chronologically as you can, and I should say to you that this testimony is privileged. You are not subject, unless you have an evil heart and evil intent, to any litigation, that is, slander, libel, or otherwise.
Mr. MAMANTOV. No; only I know about the man, like I told you, that we were being closer acquainted with him and his present wife.
Mr. MAMANTOV. Because of his characteristics, of his frivolous life, his behavior in the presence of ladies--to us suspicious political trips supposedly related to his business and this is the extent I can say of him.
Mr. JENNER. Have you told us everything you said to the FBI when you called them on the 22d of November before you were contacted by the Dallas office?
Mr. MAMANTOV. I haven't told them anything except I know of the assassin and if I can be of service I would like to relate the knowledge I have.
Mr. JENNER. Now, was there an occasion on which your mother-in-law, Mrs. Gravitis made some comment or gave an opinion to you, her opinion as to Lee Oswald with particular reference to his possible political leanings, and does that serve to refresh your recollection enough--I don't want to suggest the conversation to you.
Mr. JENNER. In relation to Oswald, whether he was a Communist or what his political leanings were in her opinion?
Mr. MAMANTOV. Well, on many occasions that came up, the conversation, after her conversations with Mrs. Paine, and after hearing through Mrs. Paine and my mother-in-law what he was saying and how he was opposed to our way of life and knowing that he came from that country, she and I stated that he is a Communist--we didn't hesitate.
Mr. JENNER. That was based upon the reports to you from your mother-in-law as to what Mrs. Paine might have or did say to her and from, I gather, your general knowledge at that time that he had gone from this country to Russia?
Mr. JENNER. And had returned with Marina as his wife?
Mr. MAMANTOV. That's correct, and not only through Mrs. Paine, because after we found out--many people of Russian descent were somehow acquainted with Lee Oswald and Marina, so we heard later from different sources of him and his political opinions.