Mr. Dulles. May I ask one question? This is a formal opinion of your office as Legal Adviser to the State Department?

Mr. Chayes. I take responsibility for this as my present opinion, yes, sir, and it goes out over my signature. We are not quite like the Attorney General. We don't have opinions that get bound up in volumes.

Mr. Dulles. I realize that it is not a formalized opinion from that angle. Was this ever submitted to the Department of Justice for consideration?

Mr. Chayes. No; it was not.

Mr. Ehrlich. Actually this report did go to the Department of Justice because it was submitted before the Commission was formed.

Mr. Chayes. Yes; but it wasn't submitted to the Department of Justice for consideration.

Mr. Dulles. For concurrence or anything of that kind.

Mr. Chayes. For concurrence, no.

Mr. Coleman. Now, the first section which I assume you address your attention to was section 349(a) (1).

Mr. Chayes. We could do it that way.