Miss Knight. 250 now.
Mr. Dulles. 250. It is different.
Miss Knight. We had reduced it to 450,000 and we culled it some more and it is now 250,000.
Mr. Dulles. That is a reduction from the earlier 450,000?
Miss Knight. That is right. This project was very time-consuming and tedious but it had to be done, and it was completed in 1962, at which time we transferred all the data on the cards we considered active onto a permanent IBM key punch card system which was coded and legible.
To relate this file, this tremendous file, to the Oswald case, I think it should be remembered that the Passport Office is not a police organization, nor is it an investigative agency. We must depend on other sources in and out of the Government to supply us with the information which we must adjudicate under the criteria of the passport regulations.
When we issued a passport to Oswald in June 1963 we felt that he had not expatriated himself and that determination was made.
Mr. Coleman. In 1963 you didn't make any judgment at all. He just wasn't in the lookout file so you just issued it. You didn't make any independent judgment at that time in 1963, did you?
Miss Knight. If we had thought he had expatriated himself we would have had a card in his file.
Mr. Coleman. Yes; but in 1963 no decision was made.