Was it put on the refusal sheet?
Miss WATERMAN. Well, it looks to me as if someone started to handle this for the refusal card, or lookout card as you call it, because the name was typed on.

Mr. Coleman.

It was written on.
Miss WATERMAN. Written on, yes. I believe that to complete that operation, the designation of the citizenship designation of the Department of State at that time at least, 130, should have been placed on there.

Mr. Coleman.

What does 130 mean?
Miss WATERMAN. That is the Department's classification of citizenship.

Mr. Coleman.

By looking at that file, is there anything else that you can examine to be able to tell the Commission whether in your judgment the actual lookout card was ever prepared?
Miss WATERMAN. No; I wouldn't be able to say. I do notice here that the case was called for from the files a few days after it went to file, and that apparently was occasioned by a new communication coming in from our Embassy at Moscow.

Mr. Dulles.

Who called for it, can you tell from that?
Miss WATERMAN. Apparently we received--this was called for from--here is a call slip right here. I am looking at it. Which means that something new had been received and we wanted the file again.

Mr. Coleman.

Could you tell me the number that is on that call sheet? You are looking at file X. It is file X she is looking at?

Mr. Ehrlich.

Yes.
Miss WATERMAN. X-64.

Mr. Coleman.

X-64.
Miss WATERMAN. I might say that in the meantime during the time from November 1959 up into 1960, beginning about early in February 1960, I was replaced in this section or branch by an attorney and a member of the bar, and at this time I was then the assistant of the section, and not the head of it.

Mr. Coleman.

Well, was the attorney that replaced you G. W. Masterton?
Miss WATERMAN. Yes.

Mr. Coleman.

I would like to ask you to identify Commission Exhibit No. 983.
Is that a copy of the sheet you referred to, to indicate the file had been called for?
Miss WATERMAN. That is right. A new report had been received and our control clerk, we call her, our person looking after the records in our particular section had made that call slip for the file.

Mr. Coleman.

Is there anything else in the original file which you could look at to try to advise us whether you think in your judgment a lookout card was ever prepared?
Miss WATERMAN. Well, I wouldn't be able to know. All I could say is it is very surprising, because it seems to me that we had--well, I could not say how many lookout cards and refusal cards on all kinds of subjects. And I can only guess that this file was caught up in some large number of files that were on hand to have refusal cards or lookout cards made, or something of that nature, or that the process of having the card made was interrupted by the receipt of the new material from our Embassy at Moscow.

Mr. Coleman.

But----

Mr. Dulles.

Could I ask one question?
Who would make out lookout cards in the normal process? Would it be quite a number of people, or one particular office?
Miss WATERMAN. I am not sure about that, Mr. Dulles. That was completely another area, and I don't know.

Mr. Dulles.

Outside of the Passport Department entirely, was it?
Miss WATERMAN. Oh, no.

Mr. Dulles.

In the Passport Department?
Miss WATERMAN. Oh, yes.

Mr. Dulles.

Miss Knight could tell us that.
Miss WATERMAN. In the records part of the Passport Office.
Now, at one time I know that the cards were made in a certain area. Then I know that later on, and probably prior to this time, we had been requested not to

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