Mr. Coleman.

Would you state your full name, please, sir?

Mr. Seeley.

Carroll Hamilton Seeley, Jr.

Mr. Coleman.

Would you raise your right hand, please?

Do you solemnly swear the testimony you are about to give in this deposition is the whole truth, and nothing but the truth, so help you God?

Mr. Seeley.

I do.

Mr. Coleman.

Sir, I would like to state that you have been called and asked to give a deposition because in looking through certain files supplied us by the State Department, there are indications that you had something to do with one or more of the documents in the file, and we also want to ask you concerning what you did after you received information that a person named Lee Harvey Oswald was at the Soviet Embassy in Mexico City some time around the first of October. As we understand it you received such notice on or about the 16th of October.

Mr. Seeley.

I did see the notice. I think that I saw that notice on the 22d, on October 22, 1963.

Mr. Coleman.

Those are the two subjects that we are going to question you about.

Mr. Seeley.

Yes, sir.

Mr. Coleman.

Would you state your address for the record?

Mr. Seeley.

My address is 6944 Nashville Road, Lanham, Md.

Mr. Coleman.

Are you familiar with the congressional resolution in re this Commission?

Mr. Seeley.

I am familiar with the newspaper accounts.

Mr. Coleman.

You are familiar with the resolution?

Mr. Seeley.

I am familiar with it to the extent that I have read in the newspapers that there is a Commission set up to investigate the assassination.

Mr. Coleman.

Would you state whether you are presently employed by the Federal Government?

Mr. Seeley.

Yes, sir; I am. I am employed with the Department of State.

Mr. Coleman.

What is your position with the State Department?

Mr. Seeley.

I am Assistant Chief of the Legal Division of the Passport Office of the Department of State.

Mr. Coleman.

Who is your immediate superior?

Mr. Seeley.

Robert D. Johnson, chief counsel.

Mr. Coleman.

How long have you had that position?

Mr. Seeley.

I have been in that position since approximately February 1962.

Mr. Coleman.

Prior to February 1962, what was your position?

Mr. Seeley.

I was Chief of the Security Branch of the Legal Division of the Passport Office.

Mr. Coleman.

How long did you have that job?

Mr. Seeley.

I had held that job since approximately 1957.

Mr. Coleman.

As assistant to Mr. Johnson--

Mr. Seeley.

Yes.

Mr. Coleman.

What are your duties?

Mr. Seeley.

My duties are mainly supervisory and to review material that has been prepared in the Passport Office Legal Division, and on some occasions to clear information or material that has been prepared in other divisions of the Passport Office.

Mr. Coleman.

I take it you are a lawyer?

Mr. Seeley.

Yes, sir; I am.

Mr. Coleman.

Are you a member of the Bar?

Mr. Seeley.

Yes, sir; I am.

Mr. Coleman.

Of what State or States?

Mr. Seeley.

I am a member of the Bar of the District of Columbia.

Mr. Coleman.

How long have you been with the Department of State?

Mr. Seeley.

I have been with the Department of State since 1954.

Mr. Coleman.

Could you tell me the first time you heard, read or saw the name Lee Harvey Oswald?

Mr. Seeley.

Well, Mr. Coleman, I don't have an independent recollection of that. I feel that probably the name first appears in the file on March 28, 1961.