Miss WATERMAN. Refusal sheet.
Mr. COLEMAN. Has been marked as Commission Exhibit No. 962, what would
be the next step in the system to make sure that Mr. Oswald could
not use 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.