Mr. Coleman. Do you draw any significance from the fact that he was able to come from Minsk into Moscow on July 8, apparently without any difficulty?
Mr. Snyder. No; I cannot say that he came without any difficulty. He may have had considerable difficulty. It was my feeling that he would have some difficulty in coming to Moscow.
Representative Ford. Did you make any inquiry about that? Did that rouse your curiosity, that he was able to come?
Mr. Snyder. No; because I expected that he would be able to come, Mr. Ford. As a matter of fact, the letter which I wrote to him in reply to the first letter to me which I received was very carefully worded with this in mind. It was written, for one thing, partly addressed to the Soviet authorities who would read it. And partly to Oswald—which could be used by him in a sense should he run up against real difficulties in getting permission to come to Moscow.
At any rate, I think it was my feeling at the time that he probably could come to the Embassy, although it might cost him considerable difficulty. But I saw no reason to spare him this difficulty.
Mr. Coleman. Is there any other information you have which you think the Commission would be interested in in connection with its work and its investigation?
Mr. Snyder. I can't really—well, let me say that I don't know of any other facts pertinent to the investigation, or pertinent to Oswald in any way which I have not presented, at least not knowingly.
There may well be—there is much that I could elaborate on, on what I have said, relating to Oswald. There are a good deal of small things which perhaps under further questioning might be elicited.
But I am not aware of anything which I have not mentioned and which is in any way pertinent, and which ought to be mentioned.
There are other observations about Oswald and this sort of thing I suppose I could elaborate on to some extent.