Miss Knight. Would you like an extra copy of it?
Mr. Dulles. May I ask a further question there? When you issue a passport limited solely to returning to the United States, isn't that some indication that you don't want the fellow traveling around abroad?
Miss Knight. There would be some indication, yes, but there may be many reasons for it. It may be a general indication that he should not be traveling around abroad.
Mr. Dulles. So that normally you wouldn't issue a passport with that limitation and then let him come right into the Passport Office and reissue a passport to go abroad.
Miss Knight. Well, if it is a case which merits a stop card we wouldn't do it. But in this case of Oswald——
Mr. Dulles. In this case would there be a stop card?
Miss Knight. In the case of Oswald?
Mr. Dulles. No; I mean in the case of anybody who is abroad and you issue him a passport only to travel back to the United States, to get him back to the United States, if then in the next week he went into the Passport Office and wanted a passport to travel back to Europe, which means Russia if he wants to go to Russia, would you issue him a passport or would you not?
Miss Knight. I think that depends very much on the record that we would have on him.
The issuance of passports is pretty well defined in the new regulations. I would say that a decade ago a passport application for Oswald would have been denied, or at least it would have been substantially delayed.