I do not recall that the file, the passport folder, contained any information that would tag Oswald as a U.S. Communist, or a Communist sympathizer prior to his visit to the U.S. Embassy in Moscow, and there is no record that he engaged in any public denunciation of the United States.

During the time Oswald's citizenship status was in question, that is from the time he had advised the U.S. consul in Moscow that he wished to renounce his citizenship, to the time it was determined he had not committed an expatriative act, a period of almost 2 years, his file was flagged and according to our records a lookout card was ordered for the lookout file.

On March 28, 1960, the Passport Office advised the U.S. Embassy in Moscow that "An appropriate notice has been placed in the lookout card section of the Passport Office in the event that Mr. Oswald should apply for documentation at a post outside the Soviet Union."

Mr. Coleman. We will note for the record that document you are referring to—I think it is the Operations Memorandum of May 23, 1960—has been given Commission Exhibit No. 963.

Miss Knight. In view of the volume of our work it would be impossible at this late date for a clerk in the Passport Office to remember whether a card was actually made or not made. Apparently no card was found in the 1961 search of the lookout file, but again it is possible that such a card was misfiled. It is also possible if a card was made it was destroyed in error, but whether there was a card made or not has no bearing on the final outcome of the decision regarding the Oswald citizenship.

Mr. Dulles. May I ask a question there. Would you prefer to read this entire document first?

Miss Knight. No; it is easier——

Mr. Dulles. Is it conceivable that the lookout card could have been removed in 1961 when his passport was extended to return to the United States?

Under your procedure would that have been done?

Miss Knight. Under our procedure when he was issued the passport that card would have been removed; yes. So that in 1961 there would not have been a card in the file.