Miss Waterman. Yes.
Mr. Coleman. Indicates that the telegram was at least communicated to and cleared by the Soviet desk in Washington before it was sent out?
Miss Waterman. Well yes; I think that one reason that it was always cleared was that the geographic divisions were particularly interested in the wording of our replies. I think they just wanted the general idea of whether or not we were using the proper classification.
Mr. Coleman. And in that telegram of November 2, 1959, you advised the Embassy in Moscow that if Oswald insisted on renouncing U.S. citizenship, that the statute precludes the Embassy from withholding his right to do so regardless of his application pending with the Soviet Government, is that correct?
Miss Waterman. Yes.
Mr. Coleman. Now thereafter did you have anything else to do with the Oswald matter prior to March 1960? To help you, Miss Waterman, March 1960 was the time in which you prepared the refusal card.
Miss Waterman. Yes—refusal sheet.
Mr. Coleman. Between sending this telegram on November 2, 1959, and March 1960, did you personally have any knowledge or anything else that was going on as far as Oswald was concerned?
Miss Waterman. Well, not certainly unless it is in the file. I would think that in the meantime we received some kind of further report from the Embassy, but I am not——
Mr. Coleman. Well, we have had marked and put in the record the various reports that were received, and you say that as all the reports came in that you had opportunity to read them?