Mr. Dulles. So that 5 months of the delay in their getting out was American regulations?
Mr. McVickar. Sir, I cannot speak for that part of it because I don't know about that personally. I think it is possible that it may have had something to do with Oswald's personal arrangements and that sort of thing, or maybe the Soviet—I just don't know. I do know that it was our policy to expedite these operations as quickly as possible after these exit visas took place.
Mr. Dulles. I only know that this exhibit that I referred to states, if I can take your date of January 12, 1962, for the date that the exit visa was issued to Mrs. Oswald, the Immigration and Naturalization Service did not agree to the waiver of section 243 (g) until May 9, 1962.
Mr. McVickar. That would have been something that had been going on in Washington then, and I just don't know. It may be. I don't know what considerations would have taken place.
Mr. Dulles. So that if we take the time it took them to get their exit visas, you have got to subtract really 5 months for American regulations.
I am not criticizing the regulations or the study that was given to it or whether they did or did not grant it. I am just referring to the question of the time, so that in considering the remarkably short time it took these two to get out, 5 months were American regulations, or approximately 5 months, if the January 12 date is correct. No; it would be 4 months, wouldn't it, February, March, April, May, 4 months were American regulations.
Mr. McVickar. It does look as though at that time there was a certain amount of consideration.
Mr. Dulles. I am not blaming anyone for giving this the fullest possible consideration. That is all I have.
Representative Ford. Do you have some exhibits?
Mr. Coleman. For the record, Commission Exhibit No. 911 which is the McVickar memorandum of November 17, 1959.