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Subject claims to speak Georgian with native fluency. He may speak it well but we venture that it is not the same language currently being spoken in Georgia, this probably being so if only because he has never been to Georgia. There is no indication he uses the language much, if at all. He speaks, reads and writes French with native fluency. Actually, French is his native language; at lease he calculates in French. He speaks and reads German well and is capable of expressing himself quite fully in it. Ho understands English and can say simple things in it. Subject says he is able to understand and speak Spanish well enough to get along.Culturally Subject is French. His mannerisms are French, as aré his habits. If there is anything particularly Georgian about Subject, it is not noticeable. We would guess that Subject was brought up in not too well-to-do middle class circumstances but under the influence of his parents who had had a much better, possibly even prosperous, past.4. Character and personality: It is safe to describe Subject as independent and as a man who instinctively prefers to take his chances relying on his own abilities and resources in order to avoid compromising his independence by assuming commitments. He is a long wolf type. We guess that Subject behaves this way partly because he has an exaggerated notion of his competence, and partly because he is impatient with delay and with people who are less quick or able than hộ. Even though Subject needs people and likes company, he does not want to have his affairs, particularly his business affairs, dependent on others. There are several points which support this: By his own admission (which, incidentally, may be quite misleading because he may have quite incorrect opinion of himself) Subject as a student was obstreperous, impatient, and consistently so. As a voluntary worker in Germany when he seems to have struck out on his own is further evidence. Now, rather than taking a steady job of some kind which suits his abilities, Subject is once again striking out on his own, although his record as a convict mitigates this because he has no choice. One of the reasons why Subject does this is that he has an insatiable desire to strike it rich or at least to achieve success and stature. This desire to attain something may be related to the comparison he must be forced to make between his record and that of his brother: His has been unruly, irregular, troublesome, and he has attained very little; his brother became an officer in the French any (even though he was foreign born) and is now a 80-80 successful architect. Also, we suspect that we have not yet gotten the full story on Subject's marriage and divorce. Perhaps Subject married unwisely, lost face with his family, and/or was considered a low type mate by his wife's family even before he was arrested.One of the underlying reasons why subject is so independent is that he is impatient. In conversation we noticed that hớ did not wait for questions we wished to put to him to be fully fonaed. He tends to interrupt in order to supply usually interesting and sometimes even pertinent information. He seems unable to bide his time. He doubt that Subject has any deficable moral or other standards. In any given instance he either rationalizes the facts. in order to reach a conclusion which appealed to him to begin with, or he simply overlooks the certain significant issue. Still, Subject is not amorel or a criminal type. We believe he knows right and wrong, sometimes considers whather any given act would be right or wrong and/or ciccont. His trouble is that not having any fira base point lesis him into coral contradictions which he can't solve and frequently is unaware of because he dcesn't really care. We doubt that Subject's corals concerning drink, women, gasbling and the other vices differ greatly at nest frea the average person of approximately the came background. To repeat, it is not that Subject has no standards his are just different and peculiarly his con.