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?
Miss WATERMAN. Yes; I am looking at it.
Mr. COLEMAN. Was it put on the refusal sheet?
Miss WATERMAN. Well, it looks to me as if someone started to handle
this for the refusal card, or lookout card as you call it, because the
name was typed on.
Mr. COLEMAN. It was written on.
Miss WATERMAN. Written on, yes. I believe that to complete that
operation, the designation of the citizenship designation of the
Department of State at that time at least, 130, should have been placed
on there.
Mr. COLEMAN. What does 130 mean?
Miss WATERMAN. That is the Department's classification of citizenship.
Mr. COLEMAN. By looking at that file, is there anything else that you
can examine to be able to tell the Commission whether in your judgment
the actual lookout card was ever prepared?
Miss WATERMAN. No; I wouldn't be able to say. I do notice here that the
case was called for from the files a few days after it went to file,
and that apparently was occasioned by a new communication coming in
from our Embassy at Moscow.
Mr. DULLES. Who called for it, can you tell from that?
Miss WATERMAN. Apparently we received--this was called for from--here
is a call slip right here. I am looking at it. Which means that
something new had been received and we wanted the file again.
Mr. COLEMAN. Could you tell me the number that is on that call sheet?
You are looking at file X. It is file X she is looking at?
Mr. EHRLICH. Yes.
Miss WATERMAN. X-64.
Mr. COLEMAN. X-64.
Miss WATERMAN. I might say that in the meantime during the time from
November 1959 up into 1960, beginning about early in February 1960, I
was replaced in this section or branch by an attorney and a member of
the bar, and at this time I was then the assistant of the section, and
not the head of it.
Mr. COLEMAN. Well, was the attorney that replaced you G. W. Masterton?
Miss WATERMAN. Yes.
Mr. COLEMAN. I would like to ask you to identify Commission Exhibit No.
983.
Is that a copy of the sheet you referred to, to indicate the file had
been called for?
Miss WATERMAN. That is right. A new report had been received and our
control clerk, we call her, our person looking after the records in our
particular section had made that call slip for the file.
Mr. COLEMAN. Is there anything else in the original file which you
could look at to try to advise us whether you think in your judgment a
lookout card was ever prepared?
Miss WATERMAN. Well, I wouldn't be able to know. All I could say is
it is very surprising, because it seems to me that we had--well, I
could not say how many lookout cards and refusal cards on all kinds
of subjects. And I can only guess that this file was caught up in
some large number of files that were on hand to have refusal cards or
lookout cards made, or something of that nature, or that the process of
having the card made was interrupted by the receipt of the new material
from our Embassy at Moscow.