[xxvii] Ruth's activity with the East-West Contacts Committee led her to organize a 2500 mile walk in 1957 by five Americans and three Russians. This included working with the Committee of Soviet Youth Organizations: FBI memo by SA Kenneth Pettijohn on interview with Wilmer Stratton, p. 3, 1/21/64, Commission Document 435 - FBI McDonald Report of 05 Feb 1964 re: The Paines,
[xxviii] The Director of East-West Contacts within the State Department that approved this 1958 exchange was Frederick Merrill: CIEE History: Part 1, 1947-1960, p. 12.
www.ciee.org/home/about/documents/history1.pdf
[xxix] Merrill worked with the Free Europe Committee, which funded Radio Free Europe and other projects to ensure the flow of funds to Soviet exile groups: Greg Parker's research at the Education Forum. http:
//educationforum.ipbhost.com/index.php?showtopic=1812&st=0&p=160818&hl="robert webster"&fromsearch=1entry160818
[xxx] Michael Paine allowed that Ruth may have written the State Department to set up this exchange: Warren Commission Testimony of Michael Paine, Volume 2, p. 387.
[xxxi] The next year, Merrill informed the chief of CIA East-West Contacts that the Rand Corporation was asking the State Department about Robert Webster's whereabouts when he defected to the Soviet Union: Memorandum for the Record, by SR/COP/FI REDACTED, 10/8/59.
HSCA Segregated CIA Collection (microfilm - reel 17: Ruiz - Webster)/NARA Record Number: 104-10181-10128.
[xxxii] While Ruth attended Russian classes for seven weeks during the summer of 1959 at Middlebury College in Vermont": Interview with Helen Mamikonian (Ruth Paine's Middlebury roommate in 1959), Commission Document 342 - FBI Warden Report of 16 Jan 1964 re: Ruth & Michael Paine, 1/16/64, p. 3. http://www.maryferrell.org/mffweb/archive/viewer/showDoc.do?mode=searchResult&absPageId=344920
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