Miss Waterman. That is signed by Lee Harvey Oswald. And his statement here indicates and shows the performance of no such act as is described on the first page of the application.
Representative Ford. Any one of those conditions, however, in that statement would indicate that he had renounced his citizenship?
Miss Waterman. It could. But, in other words, he now says——
Representative Ford. He says some place in there he is without nationality. Did you have that at the time——
Miss Waterman. "I am described as being without citizenship." That is right. In other words, it is questionable whether the Embassy should have crossed out "have not." In other words, he might have said I have done this, but his explanation——
Representative Ford. That is what the document shows.
Miss Waterman. But his explanation clearly shows that he had not.
Mr. Dulles. Do you know whether that was noted at the time, or deemed to be a clerical error, or how did you interpret that crossing out of that particular line there?
Miss Waterman. Well, in any event—I actually cannot recall, Mr. Dulles. But the questionnaire, which was also under oath, at the Embassy, would be the material part here. And there is no information in here to show that he had been naturalized. He said he was not known as a Soviet citizen, he did not have a Soviet passport. And as for the other items of possible expatriation, I don't see how they could have applied to him, in any event.
Representative Ford. Mr. Coleman, I suggest that, to make the record complete as to what the evidence was in the file, that we have reprinted in the record at this point Commission Exhibit No. 912, because it was a followup statement by Oswald on the status as he saw it of his citizenship at that time.