Mr. McVickar. I won't say that it is not possible, and as I say, I don't remember this. But I very much doubt that I would have interviewed somebody in the middle of July and have not written to the State Department about it until the end of August, and I say that honestly. That was not the way we operated.
Mr. Coleman. You referred to some handwritten notes you saw in the file. I would like to show you Commission Exhibit No. 945 and ask you whether that is the copy of the notes that you were referring to?
Mr. McVickar. That is the copy of them. I do not believe they are dated, and it was with a ballpoint pen. I made this copy for myself from the copy that is in the file.
Mr. Chayes. Would it be appropriate to point out that there seems to be more on your copy than on his copy?
Mr. McVickar. No, these are my own notes. This is exactly what it is here.
Mr. Coleman. Sir, I take it that Commission Exhibit No. 945 is some notes you took at a time when you had an interview with Marina Oswald, is that correct?
Mr. McVickar. Yes.
Mr. Coleman. Now you have a notation "was not Komsomol." What does that mean?
Mr. McVickar. That I am confident means that I asked her whether she was a member of the Komsomol, which is the Communist youth organization, and this would have been an ordinary question for me to ask a visa applicant because this had some bearing on her admissibility to the United States under the immigration law, and I was apparently satisfied from what she said she was not. There is no other way of really establishing it under such circumstances.
Mr. Dulles. Did she say whether she had at anytime been a member of the Komsomol?