Except that you were working for the International Cooperation Administration when you were in Yugoslavia first, that had no political, capital P, implications whatsoever?
Mr. DE MOHRENSCHILDT. No; it was purely business.

Mr. Jenner.

And your second venture in Yugoslavia for the Cardwell Tool Corp., that was strictly business?
Mr. DE MOHRENSCHILDT. Yes.

Mr. Jenner.

No politics involved?
Mr. DE MOHRENSCHILDT. No.

Mr. Jenner.

Have you ever been in any respect whatsoever an agent
Mr. DE MOHRENSCHILDT. Never have.

Mr. Jenner.

Representing----
Mr. DE MOHRENSCHILDT. Never, never.

Mr. Jenner.

Any government?
Mr. DE MOHRENSCHILDT. You can repeat it three times.

Mr. Jenner.

Any government?
Mr. DE MOHRENSCHILDT. No I could take what you call the fifth amendment, but, frankly, I don't need to.

Mr. Jenner.

I should say to you, Mr. De Mohrenschildt, that any time you think that your privacy is being unduly penetrated, or that you feel that your constitutional rights might be invaded, or you feel uncomfortable, you are free to express yourself.
Mr. DE MOHRENSCHILDT. You are more than welcome. I have never been an agent of any government, never been in the pay of any government, except the American Government, the ICA. And except being in the, Polish Army--$5 a month.
Well, maybe I made a mistake. Maybe I am working for the Haitian Government now. It is a contract. But it has no political affiliations.

Mr. Jenner.

Subject to that.
Mr. DE MOHRENSCHILDT. Again, no political angle to it.

Mr. Jenner.

What I am driving at--whether you work for a foreign government or not, whether you ever have in your lifetime have you at any time had any position, which I will call political, in the capital P sense, in which you sought to advance the interests of a movement or a government or even a group against a government?
Mr. DE MOHRENSCHILDT. Never have. Never was even a Mason. Never part of any political group.

Mr. Jenner.

And any views you have expressed during your rather colorful life have been your personal views?
Mr. DE MOHRENSCHILDT. Personal views; yes.

Mr. Jenner.

Not induced or fed or nurtured by any political interests, with a capital P, on behalf of any group?
Mr. DE MOHRENSCHILDT. That is right. Sometimes I criticize things, like in Texas--I criticize the lack of freedoms that the Mexicans have, the discrimination, and things like that. But nobody pays me for that. I say what I think.

Mr. Jenner.

Whether they pay you or not----
Mr. DE MOHRENSCHILDT. I have never been a member of any group of any kind. My life was too busy, as you can see, in order to be involved in anything like that.

Mr. Jenner.

Now, we covered your two Yugoslav ventures, your Ghanian venture the time that you had the company when you were a young man in Europe, traveled around Europe.
We covered all your employments in the United States, from the time you came here in May of 1938.
I think we have reached the point of your great venture which you started to tell us about, and I had you hold off--your trip down into Mexico and the

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