his passport or come back to the United States without the Department having notice?
Miss WATERMAN. Well, in the case of this being a classified file, the file would have been returned to the Classified File Section as I recall, and there would be a note on there to please index the refusal sheet, and then if there were any other instructions, for instance, another office might want the file or ask for it, if no one wanted it, we would ordinarily ask to have the refusal sheet carded and the case filed.

Mr. Coleman.

As a result of the preparation of the refusal sheet, would someone else or you have a responsibility to prepare something which is called a lookout card?
Miss WATERMAN. At that time, at least--I don't know what the procedure is now, I have no idea; at that time, at least, the refusal card as I call it, or lookout card would have been prepared in the Records Section of the Passport Office. In other words, a part of the section which handled the files.

Mr. Coleman.

After you prepared the refusal sheet which is Commission Exhibit No. 962----
Miss WATERMAN. Yes; I wrote that myself.

Mr. Coleman.

Would you then give--how would the records section know that a lookout card should be prepared?
Miss WATERMAN. Well, for one thing the refusal sheet would be placed on top of the file, and I am sure there would be a note to flag the attention of the records people that a refusal was there to be carded. But in any event, it would be on top of the file, and there would have been nothing on the right hand margin. There would have been no name. There would have been nothing put on there in our particular office.

Mr. Coleman.

In other words, you say----
Miss WATERMAN. In our adjudication part.

Mr. Coleman.

Are you saying that Oswald, Lee Harvey, would not have been----
Miss WATERMAN. No, no; the sheet was completely blank as to the margin. At no time would anything have been entered there, in our adjudication part.

Mr. Coleman.

In Commission Exhibit No. 962, you then say when you physically prepared the refusal sheet, the only thing that was prepared is the typewritten material, is that correct?
Miss WATERMAN. The typewritten red sheet. If you have the file, it is right here.

Mr. Coleman.

You say that after you prepared that, you would physically place that red sheet on the top of the passport file, is that correct?
Miss WATERMAN. Well, now this was placed--I think there was a communication which went out at the same time.

Mr. Coleman.

You are talking about the Operations Memorandum dated March 28, 1960?
Miss WATERMAN. I am talking about the Operations Memorandum, yes.

Mr. Coleman.

Which has been marked as Commission Exhibit No. 963?
Miss WATERMAN. Now that would have gone to file, to the file with this Operations Memorandum, and the Refusal Sheet.

Mr. Coleman.

You prepared the Operations Memorandum also?
Miss WATERMAN. Yes; now I see that was mailed 3 days after it was prepared. In the meantime someone else was looking at it.

Mr. Coleman.

Was it your responsibility actually to see that the lookout card was prepared?
Miss WATERMAN. No; I wouldn't think so, no.

Mr. Coleman.

Who would have that responsibility?
Miss WATERMAN. Well, in the first place the cases were examined by the records people before being filed, and no one would certainly be supposed to file a Refusal Sheet without an indication that he had had a card made.

Mr. Coleman.

Would the indication that the card was made be put on the refusal sheet?
Miss WATERMAN. Yes.

Mr. Coleman.

Would you look at the original of the State Department records?

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