Mr. Dulles. Could the Passport Office itself prepare a lookout card on its own initiative on the basis let's say of a file like the Oswald file?
Mr. Chayes. It would have prepared a lookout card on any person as to whom the file suggested that there were grounds for withdrawal, or denial of the passport.
Mr. Coleman. Mr. Chayes, at this point could we mark as Commission Exhibit No. 951 the existing standard operating notice which was in effect on February 28, 1962, of the Department with respect to the lookout card system?
(Commission Exhibit No. 951 was marked for identification and received in evidence.)
Mr. Chayes. Yes.
Mr. Coleman. Would you describe Commission Exhibit No. 951?
Mr. Chayes. This is the standard operating notice which covers the categories, and if you look at them they relate each category to a ground of potential disqualification.
Mr. Dulles. As of what date does this read?
Mr. Coleman. February 1962.
Mr. Chayes. Now we have added by the Schwartz to Knight memorandum of recent date a defector category which differs slightly from the others in that in all of the other categories something in the file already suggests that the person may be ineligible for a passport. The defector category would simply stimulate further investigation in the case of application by such a person, and would automatically trigger notification of the other security agencies.