Mr. Dulles. How do you define the defector category, do you know?
Mr. Chayes. I think we have the——
Mr. Dulles. Would that have covered Oswald? That is what I am interested in.
Mr. Chayes. Yes; well, it was in fact designed to cover Oswald, so that——
Mr. Dulles. It probably would have.
Mr. Chayes. It would, but defector is not a statutory term or one that has real technical significance. I have said in my own discussions with people who have asked for guidance in administering this memorandum and others that it is not necessarily related to an attempted renunciation of citizenship or anything else. It involves the kind of thing that if there were a war on would be treason.
In other words, it involves something like aid and comfort to the enemy or attempted aid and comfort to the enemy. The only thing is the enemy isn't technically an enemy because we are not at war. But that requires some judgment to decide which ones you put in and which ones you wouldn't.
Mr. Dulles. There is a definition we could get though and put it in the record.
Mr. Chayes. No, no.
Mr. Dulles. There is no definition?