a baby, but, anyway, I wasn't satisfied, but by that time I couldn't understand how they got out. But, I said, well, if they let them out, they went through the Embassy obviously, and if they were doing things he was not supposed to do, they would be trailing him.

Mr. Liebeler.

You thought this?
Miss MURRET. Well, any time anybody comes out of Russia, you think it, naturally.

Mr. Liebeler.

But you didn't say anything to Lee about it?
Miss MURRET. No; definitely not. I had just asked him if it was difficult to get out, and so then I said, well, if he were up to anything, you know, they would obviously be trailing him, so we could just forget about that because he might really have realized that he made a mistake, and he was coming back over here. I mean, you don't try to antagonize him--I mean you try to help him, and figure, thinking that if he realizes that he made a mistake and he wanted to come back here, you would do everything you could to help him.

Mr. Liebeler.

Did he indicate that he had been given trouble about getting out of Russia by the Russians or by the Americans? Or did he distinguish between them because he thought he had been harassed by the two authorities?
Miss MURRET. I don't think he really said, but I don't remember that he--I think, or I thought he meant the Russians, because the Americans gave him the money, evidently they were willing to give it to him anytime.

Mr. Liebeler.

Where did you learn about the fact that the Americans had given him the money? Did he tell you that?
Miss MURRET. He told my mother that.

Mr. Liebeler.

Can you remember any more about it than just that he had received money from the United States? Did he tell you any more details, or did your mother repeat them to you?
Miss MURRET. Well, and then I read something about it.

Mr. Liebeler.

After the assassination?
Miss MURRET. Yes; I think it was in Life, that he had renounced his citizenship, but that the American Embassy said that he didn't, and that that was why he got back here; or that if he had renounced it, he couldn't have gotten back, so he was an alien. I don't know.

Mr. Liebeler.

Did you know about this at all, or have any conversation with Lee about it before the assassination?
Miss MURRET. About what?

Mr. Liebeler.

About this time that he renounced his citizenship and these difficulties?
Miss MURRET. Well, they had articles in the papers that my mother showed me after I came home, Fort Worth papers, that he threw the passport on the desk. But I didn't ask him about that at all.

Mr. Liebeler.

And he didn't tell you anything about it?
Miss MURRET. No.

Mr. Liebeler.

Did it seem extraordinary to you that he had been able to obtain money from the State Department or whomever he obtained it from to return to the United States?
Miss MURRET. Extraordinary in the fact that I didn't know how he could get out with a Russian wife and baby, whose uncle was in the military, and an uncle I don't know what he was at the time--but I thought he was affiliated with the military, but I have read something since then that the father was with the intelligence service. But then I didn't really think too much that--well, your first reaction, but then you don't think too much about that after because he had to go through the Embassy. So you figure that it was one of two things, he either really realized that he wanted to live here again, or they let him out for a purpose. And if they did, then they would certainly be trailing him.

Mr. Liebeler.

Did it occur to you that he might be an agent of the Soviet Union?
Miss MURRET. At first; yes.

Mr. Liebeler.

You mean when you first----
Miss MURRET. The first reaction.

Mr. Liebeler.

You mean when you first----
Miss MURRET. Well, the fact that he got out.

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