*Mrs. OSWALD. He told me about it. Lee told me that the Soviet Union
offered him Soviet citizenship, but he turned it down. He told me
that he turned it down. At the same time, other developments as I
recall, left the impression with me that he actually wanted to become
a Soviet citizen, but I didn't connect the two. There is a discrepancy
between the two, but at the time, I couldn't reconcile these apparent
differences in what he said.
Mr. RANKIN. You know he told the reporters that he talked to in
Moscow in November, that the Government was going to let him stay,
but his diary says he didn't get that word until January the 4th of
the following year. Now, do you know anything about that, how that
happened?*
Mrs. OSWALD. 1960?
Mr. RANKIN. 1959 in November is when he told the reporters, and it was
January 4, 1960, that he actually put it in his diary that he had the
first learning of it?*
Mrs. OSWALD. That they would let him stay in the Soviet Union?
Mr. RANKIN. Yes.
Mrs. OSWALD. Newspaper reporters?