Mr. Chayes. Yes; from time to time between the first delivery, which was probably last December sometime, and just last week we have made other papers available to the Commission as they have come to our own notice. A file search of this kind in a place like the Department of State is a pretty elaborate business.
Only last week we got a whole new shipment from the Moscow Embassy in which they said, "We have sent you before everything that you didn't have duplicates of, but here is a whole bunch of duplicates."
And it turned out that some of them weren't duplicates as appeared just this morning. We made those available as soon as they came in.
Mr. Coleman. I take it with the covering letter of May 28, 1964, and the description you made of the file together with the other files that you delivered to us just yesterday, that they constitute all of the files that the State Department has?
Mr. Chayes. As I say, they constitute all that we have been able to find, all the documents we have been able to find after a most diligent search.
I myself did not personally conduct the search, but we directed responsible officers in all the various places where documents might be to give us all the documents they had, and I think we made a very intensive search, and to my knowledge there are no other documents in the Department relating to this matter in any way.
Mr. Coleman. Shortly after the Commission was appointed, you had prepared under your direction, and submitted to the Commission a document entitled "Report of the Department of State Lee Harvey Oswald," is that correct?
Mr. Chayes. That is correct, sir.
Mr. Coleman. And this document is an examination of the various actions taken by people in the State Department, and your judgment as to the legal correctness of the various actions?
Mr. Chayes. Well, as you see, the document consists of five subparts. It is an analysis and summary of the documents in the files. We went through the files, looked at all the documents, tried to summarize them for the Commission so as to give the Commission the fullest possible appreciation of the contacts between Oswald and the Department. Where it was necessary to elucidate policies or matters of law in order to give the Commission that appreciation, we have done so, yes.