Mr. McVickar. I am reading here from the Department of State's report to the Commission, and it cites the text of that. Do you wish me to read it over?
Mr. Coleman. Yes.
Mr. McVickar. All right, it says this looks like it is "Note 3.3. Membership in mass organizations rank and file membership in proscribed mass organizations, in Communist and Communist controlled countries may in general, if police repression or political or economic discrimination is or was the coercive factor bringing about such membership, be considered involuntary within the meaning of section 212(a)28I(i) of the act unless the alien actively participated in the organization's activities or joined or remained connected with it because of political or ideological conviction. When an alien is refused a visa because of voluntary membership in a proscribed organization of this type the report submitted to the Department pursuant to appendix A22 CFR 42.13 on note 1 should show the circumstances leading to the decision."
I should note that the text of that is confidential, as a part of confidential appendix A.
Mr. Coleman. After you interviewed Marina and took the facts, that you determined that her membership in the Soviet Trade Union for Medical Workers was involuntary?
Mr. McVickar. It appeared to be involuntary.
Mr. Coleman. Suppose Marina had told you that she was a member of the Komsomol, what would you have done then?
Mr. McVickar. That comes under a more complicated type of instruction. The membership in the Komsomol may be found to be involuntary and is on occasion found involuntary. But you have to investigate more carefully under the regulations into the nature of the membership, because whereas if a person is a member, works in a factory, everybody in the factory belongs to the trade union.
But if you are going to the university, not everybody is a member of the Komsomol, although a high percentage of them are.
If you are going to say high school, why their membership in the Komsomol is even more in the nature of a minority, and so I had experience in this same matter considering visas for a number of different wives of American citizens, and when the Komsomol was involved, why the results varied considerably.