(The document referred to was marked James Exhibit No. I for identification.)
Miss JAMES. Yes; I remember seeing it in this form [pointing to document in the file].

Mr. Coleman.

That [James Exhibit No. 1] is a photostatic copy?
Miss JAMES. Yes; I mean the yellow [copy in the file] I recall.

Mr. Coleman.

Do you know why you asked them to send you a copy of the telegram of November 2?
Miss JAMES. Again, it is in accordance with my continuing responsibility to follow these cases of visa and passport matters, and the only way we can be informed is to have all the incoming and outgoing correspondence.

Mr. Coleman.

After you received that document which has been marked as James Exhibit No. 1, did you receive other material from Miss Waterman in connection with Oswald during the period November 2, 1959, to July 1961?
Miss JAMES. I don't recall having received anything from Miss Waterman, but I am sure that we would have had copies of anything coming back and forth, back from the Embassy on the case which we would have read.

Mr. Coleman.

So, therefore, you would say that you or someone in your office should have received in the normal course every Embassy Despatch dealing with Oswald that went to the Department of State?
Miss JAMES. Routine. In fact, it would have been out of order if we hadn't gotten it.

Mr. Coleman.

Did you early in December 1959 draft a letter for Mr. Davis' signature to Mr. Snyder dealing with the general question of how he should handle people who want to renounce their citizenship in the Soviet Union?
Miss JAMES. May I ask is that the letter in which we tried to give him helpful advice in handling cases of people who tried to renounce?

Mr. Coleman.

Yes.
Miss JAMES. Yes; and, as I recall--if it is the letter I think--it included several paragraphs that had been contributed by Mr. Hickey in the Passport Office. I am not sure that is the one. I would like to see it, please.

Mr. Coleman.

I Show you a photostatic copy of a letter which has already been marked Commission Exhibit No. 915. It is from Nathaniel Davis to Richard E. Snyder, and it is under date of December 10, 1959, and it is State Department File Document No. XIII-40. I ask you whether you drafted that letter.
Miss JAMES. As I recall, I did. I am sure I did, in fact.

Mr. Coleman.

You were replying to Mr. Snyder's letter to Mr. Boster, under date of October 28, 1959, which has already been marked as Commission Exhibit No. 914, is that correct?
Miss JAMES. As I read this letter, it didn't refer specifically to the Oswald case.

Mr. Coleman.

That is because the Oswald case hadn't yet occurred.
Miss JAMES. Yes; I mean the effect of renouncing. I mean it had no relation; yes. He had called that in. Yes; I remember that. This isn't the one, though. You just handed me one by Mr. Snyder to Mr. Davis.

Mr. Coleman.

Yes.
Miss JAMES. Now, you asked me if I drafted it. I did draft it.

Mr. Coleman.

Miss James, I take it that after you drafted the letter of December 10, Commission Exhibit No. 915, that from that time until some time in July 1961 that you had no knowledge of any actions with respect to Oswald.
Miss JAMES. As I recall, I did not, unless, as I say, there had been something in from Moscow in the ordinary routine way it would have gone across my desk.

Mr. Coleman.

On July 11, 1961, or shortly thereafter, perhaps on July 12, the State Department received a Foreign Service Despatch dated July 11, 1961, from the American Embassy in Moscow, which has already been marked as Commission Exhibit No. 935. I show you a photostatic copy of Commission Exhibit No. 935 and ask you whether you have seen the original or a copy of that document?
Miss JAMES. Yes; I recall this.

Mr. Coleman.

Now, after you saw that, what did you do?
Miss JAMES. As I recall, at that time, in 1961, through that period there were

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