Mr. Coleman.

Miss JAMES. I don't recall the date. I do recall his informing me that they had had this information from INS that the petition was approved, but that the section 243 (g) waiver was not approved and, therefore, it looked as though Mrs. Oswald would not be able to come directly to the United States. If she came at all she would have to go via another country that did not have this sanction against it.

Mr. Coleman.

Could you explain for the record just what the sanction is under section 243 (g)?
Miss JAMES. Yes; the sanction is that the United States will not issue an immigration visa to a citizen of a country which refuses to accept a deportee from the United States based on the reasoning that if you can't deport to that country, if a person turns out to be an unsatisfactory immigrant, you are stuck with that immigrant.

Mr. Coleman.

Does that mean that the person cannot come into the United States?
Miss JAMES. No; it .means that Mrs. Oswald could have gone to Belgium, France, England, any other country that accepts deportees, and applied for an immigration visa and have been admitted without any question on a section 243 (g) waiver.

Mr. Coleman.

I have marked as James Exhibit No. 2 a memorandum from Robert I. Owen to John E. Crump, under date of March 16, 1962, and the subject of the memorandum is: "Operation of sanctions imposed by Section 243(g) of the Immigration and Nationality Act in case of Mrs. Marina N. Oswald."
(The document referred to was marked James Deposition Exhibit No. 2, for identification.)

Mr. Coleman.

Did you prepare the original of that memorandum.
Miss JAMES. Yes; I prepared it under Mr. Owen's supervision.

Mr. Coleman.

Do you recall Mr. Owen asking you to prepare it?
Miss. JAMES. This was my responsibility, this case, but I had long discussions with Mr. Owen on the case as to how we should proceed with it before I wrote the memorandum.

Mr. Coleman.

Arid Mr. Owen told you, "Why don't you draft a memorandum for Mr. Crump explaining to him the situation?"
Miss JAMES. We came to agreement in a talk as to how to handle the case, and I drafted the memorandum which would go to Mr. Crump because he was the officer in the Visa Office handling the case.

Mr. Coleman.

In the third paragraph of the memorandum it is stated that: "SOV believes it is in the interest of the U.S. to get Lee Harvey Oswald and his family out of the Soviet Union and on their way to this country soon. An unstable character, whose actions are entirely unpredictable, Oswald may well refuse to leave the USSR or subsequently-attempt to return there if we should make it impossible for him to be accompanied from Moscow by his wife and child."

Did you draft that?
Miss JAMES. Yes.

Mr. Coleman.

Was this language that Mr. Owen had discussed with you and told you to put in the memorandum?
Miss JAMES. My way of working is to draft a memorandum in rough draft. I give it to Mr. Owen. He and I-- he might well have put in some few words. I don't know just where he would have changed it or whether he did change it. I can't say. It is impossible to say at this time unless I had the original draft, but I know he was in agreement with this.

Mr. Coleman.

Were you the one that brought up the point that Oswald was an unstable character, or was that something Mr. Owen contributed?
Miss JAMES. I believe the Department--I will say our office was sure that he was an unstable character by the very fact that he had tried to renounce his American citizenship, and then come by the fact he had tricot to renounce his American citizenship, makes him an unstable character to me.

Mr. Coleman.

Was it your thought that once he got out of Russia and back into the United States, that we wouldn't let him go back again?
Miss JAMES. I think we would have-- I would have, based on my work in the office, I would have hoped we would have done everything to keep him from