Mr. DULLES. Would you kindly rise and raise your right hand.
Do you swear the testimony you will give before this Commission is the
truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth so help you God?
Miss WATERMAN. I do.
Mr. DULLES. Would you please advise Miss Waterman of the general
purpose of the testimony we will ask of her.
Mr. COLEMAN. Miss Waterman was with the Department of State until 1962,
at which time she retired. Miss Waterman was the adjudicator in the
Oswald case, and she is being called to testify with respect to certain
memorandums and actions she took in connection with Lee Harvey Oswald.
These actions dealt with the question whether he had expatriated
himself, and whether a passport should be reissued to him in 1961. And
also she has some information concerning the waiver for Marina under
243(g).
Mr. DULLES. Miss Waterman, I wonder if you would just give us a brief
outline of your experience with the State Department.
Miss WATERMAN. Well, I entered the Passport Office in March of 1926,
and I was there until I retired in February 1962, and during that time
I progressed from the position of typist to working on citizenship
cases, and became an adjudicator.
Mr. DULLES. Can you hear?
Miss WATERMAN. Then I became in charge of a section adjudicating
citizenship cases from certain places. I continued in citizenship work
until I retired.
Mr. DULLES. Would you proceed, Mr. Coleman.
Mr. COLEMAN. Miss Waterman, I have had marked 25 documents beginning
with Commission Exhibit No. 957 and going through Commission Exhibit
No. 982, and just before you came in, I showed you a set of those
files. Have you had opportunity to review those files?
Miss WATERMAN. Yes; I did look over the State Department file. I don't
mean State Department files, I mean Passport Office files on Oswald.
Mr. COLEMAN. And I take it that you would agree that every one of the
documents I showed you was a document which you prepared, or was a
document which was sent to you and you had occasion to read it prior to
the time I gave it to you today?
Miss WATERMAN. I believe so.
Mr. COLEMAN. Now would you tell the Commission the first time, to the
best of your knowledge, that you heard the name Oswald and in what
connection?