Now, the first category is by far the biggest. There are 250,000 lookout cards, and by far the overwhelming majority of those is in the first category, that is people as to whom there is evidence which would warrant a determination that they should not be issued a passport.
Mr. Coleman. Does the State Department have any regulations which set forth the circumstances under which they will refuse a person a passport?
Mr. Chayes. Yes; we have regulations which are set forth, a copy of which is attached to question 17. They appear in volume 22 of the Federal Register.
Mr. Coleman. Volume 22, title 22?
Mr. Chayes. Yes; title 22, part 51 of the Code of Federal Regulations.
Mr. Coleman. I take it then that in 51.135 you have the regulation which says that you can deny a passport to a member of a Communist organization, is that correct?
Mr. Chayes. Well, I think you have to be careful how you read that. It is a member of a Communist organization registered or required to be registered under section 7 of the Subversive Activities Control Act of 1950, as amended.
This 51.135 is a regulation which implements section 6 of the Subversive Activities Control Act, which denies passports to members of organizations required to register.
The only such organization so far against which a final order of registration is outstanding, is the Communist Party of the United States. So, not only technically but actually, membership in the Communist Party of the Soviet Union would not bring you within this paragraph of the regulation.
Mr. Dulles. Or the Communist Party of any other country.