**Mrs. OSWALD. Yes.
Senator COOPER. At Kharkov?
Mrs. OSWALD. At Minsk.
Senator COOPER. With whom did you file your declaration for an exit
visa?** *
*Mrs. OSWALD. There is a special institution in Minsk where prospective
departees filed application for exit visa. They leave the application
in that institution, and that institution transmits it to Moscow where
the decision is made whether to grant or to deny the exit permit. The
reply then comes to the MVD in Minsk.
*I want to assure the Commission that I was never given any assignment
by the Soviet Government or the American Government, and that I was so
surprised myself that I got the exit visa.
Senator COOPER. When you talked to Colonel Aksenov, what did he tell
you when you asked him about the exit visa?*
*Mrs. OSWALD. When I went to see Colonel Aksenov, I went to ask him
about the state in which my application is for exit visa, and he
replied----
Mr. GOPADZE. No. "Was it favorable or not," and he said it was
favorable.