Mr. COLEMAN. Did you note in his passport application for his 1963 passport that he indicated that one of the countries that he intended to travel to was Russia? Mr. SEELEY. I don't have an independent recollection of that. I presume I did note that. Mr. COLEMAN. And you are saying with all that information that you would look at that file, I take it you did it on October 22? Mr. SEELEY. Yes, sir. Mr. COLEMAN. Read it and just put it back and did nothing about it? Mr. SEELEY. I did nothing about it other than to note the fact that I had read the telegram. Mr. COLEMAN. All I am saying, just asking for your best recollection---- Mr. SEELEY. Yes, sir. Mr. COLEMAN. I realize you did nothing, but wouldn't that cause you to at least do something, to talk to somebody and say, "Can we do something about this?" Mr. SEELEY. Mr. Ritchie and I undoubtedly talked about this, or at least we both saw it. I was well aware of the file. But there was no particular passport significance to the fact that a man shows up down at the Soviet Embassy in Mexico City. He was married to a Soviet citizen. I think there is an indication somewhere she was supposed to report or something. I don't know what the score was on that. Mr. COLEMAN. But the problem is, sir, that---- Mr. SEELEY. But even if she was to report, I don't get the significance of an individual appearing at a Soviet Embassy, either here or anywhere else in the world, by itself meaning anything insofar as passports is concerned. Mr. COLEMAN. Sir, the problem is, if there is a problem, that on June 24, 1963, when Mr. Oswald applied for his passport, the State Department issued it routinely because under the lookout system there was nothing on Oswald, so, therefore, it went out the next day. Mr. SEELEY. Yes, sir. Mr. COLEMAN. And we think, from what we know, that as of June 24 or 25 no one looked at the file, so, therefore, there is no reason why the passport wouldn't go out. Mr. SEELEY. I would presume from looking at this file, that that is absolutely correct. Mr. COLEMAN. But our problem is that if on June 24 or June 25 someone had looked at the file, would you have issued the passport based upon what was in the file as of June 24 or 25, or would you have at least talked to people to see whether some action should be taken? Mr. SEELEY. If I had seen this application on June 24 or 25, before it had been issued, I think I probably would have discussed it. But that would have been the end of it. We have no basis upon which to deny him or hold up his passport. There would have been a discussion. Mr. COLEMAN. Are you saying, then, it is your opinion that after reviewing the file that if the request for a passport had come in and you had looked at the file before the passport was issued, there was no regulation or legal basis on which you could refuse him a passport? Mr. SEELEY. That is correct. That is absolutely correct.