Mr. Mcvickar.

some coaching from somebody; but also, I must say, he was an unusual person and apparently sort of an ingrown person, and so it may be that he had conceived and carried out all these things by himself.
But I think that that paragraph in a way sums up that same idea, that it seemed that there was a possibility that he had had some guidance in carrying out this line of action.

Mr. Coleman.

Does that also explain the sentence in the same paragraph where you say: "On the other hand, there also seemed to me to be the possibility that he was following a pattern of behavior in which he had been tutored by person or persons unknown"?

Mr. Mcvickar.

Yes; the same applies.

Mr. Coleman.

You had no independent evidence of this at all, did you?

Mr. Mcvickar.

I was asked to explain this attitude I had as best I could, and I wrote another memorandum. dated April 7, 1964, in which I described to go into this line of thought.

Mr. Coleman.

Could we have.marked as Commission Exhibit No. 958 a three-page memorandum from Mr. McVickar to Mr. Ehrlich, dated April 7, 1964?
(The document referred to was marked Commission Exhibit No. 958 for identification.)

Mr. Coleman.

Is that the memorandum you just referred to?

Mr. Mcvickar.

Yes; that is the same memorandum.

Mr. Coleman.

You say this memorandum, Commission Exhibit No. 958, was written in April 7, 1964, after you had been asked to explain your earlier statement concerning following a pattern of behavior in which he had been tutored by person or persons unknown?

Mr. Mcvickar.

Yes; that is correct. I believe that the Commission asked for this clarification from' the Department of State, and it was relayed out to me in Bolivia.

Mr. Coleman.

In that memorandum you first indicated that you felt that Oswald probably would not know that Helsinki would be a good place to go to try to get a visa into Russia.

Mr. Mcvickar.

Yes; I think so. It is a well enough known fact among people who are working in the Soviet Union and undoubtedly people who are associated with Soviet matters.
But I would say that it was not a commonly known fact among the ordinary run of people in the United States.

Mr. Coleman.

You also placed some reliance upon the fact that he didn't come in under a $30 per day individual tour or he didn't join a group, is that correct?

Mr. Mcvickar.

Well, now, when you say that he did not do these things, I don't know that he did not do these things. I was merely discussing the fact that the particular type of visa that he obtained might have some significance, and I went into a little bit maybe not in complete detail and maybe not knowing all of the factors, but I tried to go into a little bit of the different kinds of Possibilities there might have been.

Mr. Coleman.

Well, if it is established that Oswald got a tourist visa, then I take it that paragraph 2 of your memorandum pretty much disappears because the assumption is that he didn't get a tourist visa, is that correct?

Mr. Mcvickar.

No; I don't think entirely so. I think you would have to take a look at the amount of time that it would take him to get a tourist visa or any kind of a visa.
But as I say, I can't be sure that it would be very significant. But I think it is a point, however.

Mr. Dulles.

How long is the ordinary tourist visa good for?

Mr. Mcvickar.

Tourist visas are usually issued for specific periods of time, specific tours. That might be a week or might be a month, and they vary in price with the length of time and where they are going, and also how many people are in the group. If you are going by yourself it is very expensive. If you are going with larger and larger groups it becomes less expensive.

Mr. Coleman.

You also indicated in the memorandum in paragraph No. 4 that according to your experience Oswald's application to remain in the Soviet Union was relatively quickly accepted by the Soviet authorities?