Mr. Coleman. I show it to you and ask you is this a copy of the letter which you wrote to Mr. Oswald?
Mr. Snyder. Yes, sir.
Representative Ford. Mr. Chairman——
Mr. Dulles. Could we have some indication of what that letter is, for the record.
The Chairman. Referring back to Exhibit No. 912, where I was acting apparently under some misapprehension I read the first three lines and it said "Nov. 3, 1959. I, Lee Harvey Oswald, do hereby request that my present United States citizenship be revoked." Well, that is consistent with what was said.
Representative Ford. I think that is a pretty categorical statement.
The Chairman. Yes; it is.
Representative Ford. He subsequently, in Exhibit No. 912, makes a protest about the fact that he was not accorded that right previously. But I don't see how we could come to any other conclusion but the first three lines are a specific request for the right to revoke his American citizenship.
The Chairman. Yes; but I had misread that first sentence, and I had asked if it wasn't a revocation of his original request. I was in error when I said that. You are correct, absolutely, on your interpretation of it.
Mr. Coleman. As a result of receiving Commission Exhibit No. 912, you wrote Mr. Oswald a letter which has been—a copy of which has been marked and identified as Commission Exhibit No. 919, is that correct?