Texan Asks Soviet Union Citizenship MOSCOW, Oct. 31 W- An ex-Marine from Texas told the U.S. embassy today he has applied for Soviet citizenship. "I have made up my mind, I'm through." said Lee Harvey Oswald, 20, of Fort Worth, Tex., slapping his passport on the desk. The embassy suggested he withhold signing papers renouncing his U.S. citizenship until he is sure the Soviet Union will accept him. Oswald's decision on this suggestion was not known. Embassy officials said he refused to give any information about himself. Reporters contacted him but he also refused to give them any information. The former Marine did say, how ever, that he applied for Soviet citizenship alter coming here as a tourist Oct. 13. Oswald is the third American in recent months to apply for Soviet citizenship upon arriving in Moscow. Nicholas Pctrulli of Valley Stream. N.Y., filed a renunciation form, then changed his mind and decided to keep his U.S. citizenship. Robert Webster of Cleveland, Ohio, completed formalities for taking Soviet citizenship 10 days ago. The remainder of this dispatch was held in censorship. Oswald'smother, Mrs. Marguerite Oswald, lives in Fort Worth. He went into the Marines Oct. 24, 195fi. His sister-in-law, Mrs. R. L. Oswald of Fort Worth, said he got out of the Marines about a month ago and returned to Fort Worth for a visit. "He said he wanted to travel a lot and talked about going to Cuba," she said. "This is a stupid thing he's doing." Told that sometimes Americans have changed their minds about taking Soviet citizenship, she said: "I hope he does. I hope he does, soon." tn acquaintance, Mrs. James E. Vaylor, said Oswald was a youth who would rather stay in his room than make friends. "I always pitied him because he seemed such a nice young man um own i seem 10 nave anv friends," she added. Shfi sa ri Dswa ri cnomnrl In K. imewKeni dui snowea little inclination for attending high school.
