Mr. Coleman. This is 3 days before he came.
Mr. Dulles. The first time?
Mr. Coleman. Yes, sir.
Mr. Snyder. I recall writing. I think probably the letter you have in mind—
Mr. Coleman. I show you Commission Exhibit No. 914 which is a letter dated October 28, 1959, from Mr. Snyder to Mr. Boster, and ask you whether that is a letter you sent.
(The document referred to was marked Commission Exhibit No. 914 for identification.)
Mr. Coleman. Is that a copy of the letter that you sent to Mr. Boster?
Mr. Snyder. Yes, sir.
Mr. Coleman. Doesn't that letter, at the bottom, indicate that you were attempting to get advice on how to handle an attempted renunciation of American citizenship? At the bottom of the first page.
Mr. Snyder. Yes; this is a letter which I wrote to Gene Boster. This letter, I might add, did not refer to any particular case, but was a letter in which I had put down ideas which had been circulating in my mind for some time, based on my initial handling of cases in Moscow. And it was by way of putting down, as I say, some general ideas on the subject, and asking Gene what the Department felt about this general area of notions. It wasn't directed at any particular case.