Mr. Coleman. Read it and just put it back and did nothing about it?
Mr. Seeley. I did nothing about it other than to note the fact that I had read the telegram.
Mr. Coleman. All I am saying, just asking for your best recollection——
Mr. Seeley. Yes, sir.
Mr. Coleman. I realize you did nothing, but wouldn't that cause you to at least do something, to talk to somebody and say, "Can we do something about this?"
Mr. Seeley. Mr. Ritchie and I undoubtedly talked about this, or at least we both saw it. I was well aware of the file. But there was no particular passport significance to the fact that a man shows up down at the Soviet Embassy in Mexico City. He was married to a Soviet citizen. I think there is an indication somewhere she was supposed to report or something. I don't know what the score was on that.
Mr. Coleman. But the problem is, sir, that——
Mr. Seeley. But even if she was to report, I don't get the significance of an individual appearing at a Soviet Embassy, either here or anywhere else in the world, by itself meaning anything insofar as passports is concerned.
Mr. Coleman. Sir, the problem is, if there is a problem, that on June 24, 1963, when Mr. Oswald applied for his passport, the State Department issued it routinely because under the lookout system there was nothing on Oswald, so, therefore, it went out the next day.
Mr. Seeley. Yes, sir.