I am not sure that he sat at all throughout the interview, but certainly in the early part of it he did not.
I asked him—I recall asking him to take a seat, and he said, no, he wanted to stand. He may have relented later on.
At any rate, I did nevertheless probe about and elicited a bit of information about him which was in my report to the Department of State.
Mr. Coleman. Sir, was anyone else present at the time you were talking to Mr. Oswald?
Mr. Snyder. No; I believe Mr. McVickar was in the next room. But there was no one in the room with us at that time.
Mr. Coleman. How long did the interview with Mr. Oswald last, approximately?
Mr. Snyder. Well, I would have to pull it out of the air, really. It would be on the order of magnitude of half an hour. It might have extended to three-quarters of an hour, something of this sort.
Mr. Coleman. Other than the passport, did he give you any other piece of paper?
Mr. Snyder. Yes, yes; he did. He gave me a written statement saying something along the line of what I have said he mentioned to me orally. That is, that he had come to the Soviet Union to live, that he desired to renounce his citizenship, that he was going to become a citizen of the Soviet Union, words to that effect.
Mr. Dulles. We have that written statement, do we not?