Mr. Snyder. With reference to his visit on the 8th, it is possible that he telephoned. Again, I don't know quite what our record shows on that.
Mr. Coleman. Well, to help you refresh your recollection, sir, there has been marked as Commission Exhibit No. 935 a Foreign Service Despatch dated July 11, 1961, in which you described the meeting with Oswald. Perhaps you would want to be reading that.
(The document referred to was marked Commission Exhibit No. 935 for identification.)
Mr. Snyder. This is the interview which I thought I had on the 10th.
Representative Ford. What does it mean in this questionnaire [Commission Exhibit No. 938] where Oswald says, and I quote, "I recived [sic] a document for residence in the U.S.S.R. but I am described as being 'Without Citizenship'"?
Mr. Snyder. This undoubtedly refers to his so-called internal Soviet passport, Mr. Ford. Every Soviet citizen living in urban areas, and also in the border areas, bears an internal passport which identifies him, has certain other information about him, and bears a notation of nationality. There are, as I recall, three varieties of this. One is for Soviet citizens, one is for citizens of foreign countries, I believe, and another is for stateless persons.
The Chairman. What is the last category?
Mr. Snyder. Stateless persons. My mind is not clear at this stage as to whether the passports for foreigners and stateless persons is the same or not. I don't quite recall. At any rate, there is an entry in there which asks to state his nationality. No, it is a separate passport. As I recall the title of it, it is called—it is a separate passport.
Mr. Dulles. Did the Soviet Union ever indicate to the Embassy, as far as you know, that they considered Oswald as stateless, or is that Oswald's own statement?
Mr. Snyder. The only indication is the internal passport which he had, which was made out by local officials, and which may have been based upon a statement that Oswald himself made to them. He may have regarded himself as being stateless, I don't know, at the time he applied for that document.