The testimony of Carroll Hamilton Seeley, Jr., was taken at 11 a.m., on
June 17, 1964, at 200 Maryland Avenue NE., Washington, D.C., by Messrs.
William T. Coleman, Jr., and W. David Slawson, assistant counsel of the
President's Commission. Thomas Ehrlich, Esq., Special Assistant to the
Legal Adviser, Department of State, and James L. Ritchie, were present.
Mr. COLEMAN. Would you state your full name, please, sir?
Mr. SEELEY. Carroll Hamilton Seeley, Jr.
Mr. COLEMAN. Would you raise your right hand, please?
Do you solemnly swear the testimony you are about to give in this
deposition is the whole truth, and nothing but the truth, so help you
God?
Mr. SEELEY. I do.
Mr. COLEMAN. Sir, I would like to state that you have been called and
asked to give a deposition because in looking through certain files
supplied us by the State Department, there are indications that you
had something to do with one or more of the documents in the file, and
we also want to ask you concerning what you did after you received
information that a person named Lee Harvey Oswald was at the Soviet
Embassy in Mexico City some time around the first of October. As we
understand it you received such notice on or about the 16th of October.
Mr. SEELEY. I did see the notice. I think that I saw that notice on the
22d, on October 22, 1963.
Mr. COLEMAN. Those are the two subjects that we are going to question
you about.
Mr. SEELEY. Yes, sir.
Mr. COLEMAN. Would you state your address for the record?
Mr. SEELEY. My address is 6944 Nashville Road, Lanham, Md.
Mr. COLEMAN. Are you familiar with the congressional resolution in re
this Commission?
Mr. SEELEY. I am familiar with the newspaper accounts.
Mr. COLEMAN. You are familiar with the resolution?
Mr. SEELEY. I am familiar with it to the extent that I have read in
the newspapers that there is a Commission set up to investigate the
assassination.
Mr. COLEMAN. Would you state whether you are presently employed by the
Federal Government?
Mr. SEELEY. Yes, sir; I am. I am employed with the Department of State.
Mr. COLEMAN. What is your position with the State Department?
Mr. SEELEY. I am Assistant Chief of the Legal Division of the Passport
Office of the Department of State.
Mr. COLEMAN. Who is your immediate superior?
Mr. SEELEY. Robert D. Johnson, chief counsel.
Mr. COLEMAN. How long have you had that position?
Mr. SEELEY. I have been in that position since approximately February
1962.
Mr. COLEMAN. Prior to February 1962, what was your position?
Mr. SEELEY. I was Chief of the Security Branch of the Legal Division of
the Passport Office.
Mr. COLEMAN. How long did you have that job?
Mr. SEELEY. I had held that job since approximately 1957.