Mr. COLEMAN. In the third paragraph of the memorandum it is stated that: "SOV believes it is in the interest of the U.S. to get Lee Harvey Oswald and his family out of the Soviet Union and on their way to this country soon. An unstable character, whose actions are entirely unpredictable, Oswald may well refuse to leave the USSR or subsequently attempt to return there if we should make it impossible for him to be accompanied from Moscow by his wife and child." Did you draft that? Miss JAMES. Yes. Mr. COLEMAN. Was this language that Mr. Owen had discussed with you and told you to put in the memorandum? Miss JAMES. My way of working is to draft a memorandum in rough draft. I give it to Mr. Owen. He and I--he might well have put in some few words. I don't know just where he would have changed it or whether he did change it. I can't say. It is impossible to say at this time unless I had the original draft, but I know he was in agreement with this. Mr. COLEMAN. Were you the one that brought up the point that Oswald was an unstable character, or was that something Mr. Owen contributed? Miss JAMES. I believe the Department--I will say our office was sure that he was an unstable character by the very fact that he had tried to renounce his American citizenship, and then come--by the fact he had tried to renounce his American citizenship, makes him an unstable character to me. Mr. COLEMAN. Was it your thought that once he got out of Russia and back into the United States, that we wouldn't let him go back again? Miss JAMES. I think we would have--I would have, based on my work in the office, I would have hoped we would have done everything to keep him from going back. Whether the passport regulations would have made this possible, I don't know. Mr. COLEMAN. You never wrote a memorandum to the Passport Office, though? Miss JAMES. No; that if he applies again, don't let him go back--no; we did not. Mr. COLEMAN. Why didn't you do that in the light of the fact---- Miss JAMES. Because there was no reason at this time. He was in the Soviet Union trying to get out, and it would not have occurred to me to predict that 5 years from now he might want to go back and we should put a stop on his passport. In fact, I don't ever recall taking such action. Mr. COLEMAN. After you drafted this memorandum, did you send the telegram to the Embassy which you suggest in the last paragraph should be sent? Miss JAMES. I did not send any telegram as far as I know. If it had been sent, it would have been sent by the Visa Office on the basis of our recommendation. I would assume if they agreed to this memorandum, they sent it.