class="smcap">Raigorodsky. Well, it's a peculiar thing that the people, as I understand it, who helped Mrs. Oswald, were people from St. Nicholas Church.

Mr. Jenner. Largely?

Mr. Raigorodsky. So—I don't know how that came about—perhaps she is Russian. I can understand so much—she is a Russian and St. Nicholas is Russian and St. Seraphim is Eastern Orthodox.

Mr. Jenner. Did I understand you correctly, sir, that the parishioners, by and large, of St. Nicholas are exclusively anti-Communists?

Mr. Raigorodsky. There's no question about it.

Mr. Jenner. Because of the history, there's no question about it—largely?

Mr. Raigorodsky. Largely.

Mr. Jenner. There are other reasons, but that substantially is one major motivating force?

Mr. Raigorodsky. That's right.

Mr. Jenner. And while they would be interested in assisting persons who are of Russian birth, who would come into this community, would they also be interested in ascertaining at least what they thought might be the political views of someone who came fresh from Russia, with in turn the thought in mind that if that person or persons or family in their opinion had some affiliation with or even sympathetic to what we in America call the Communists in control of Russia, that these people in St. Nicholas would have an aversion to them?

Mr. Raigorodsky. Correct. You see, he asked the question you are getting to—that is the first time I heard she was Russian—they told me they were interrogated by different branches of the Government and that is the first time they told me that they know of Marina Oswald, how they helped her and everything else and I asked them—"How did it happen?" Now, she went to the church to have her child christened.

Mr. Jenner. She went to St. Nicholas?

Mr. Raigorodsky. No; St. Seraphim's.

Mr. Jenner. And that caused what?

Mr. Raigorodsky. That caused them to think and to know, as they understood it, that she did it practically at the peril of her life.

Mr. Jenner. She did what?

Mr. Raigorodsky. She did it at the peril of her life——

Mr. Jenner. You mean they objected?

Mr. Raigorodsky. Because he told her she cannot do that, she had to sneak out with that child to be christened and since Communists are atheists, they knew that she could not possibly be Communists.