Mr. McCLOY. Mr. Bouck, you know the purpose for which you are here?
Mr. BOUCK. Yes, I do.
Mr. McCLOY. And we are very happy to have you help us to acquit
ourselves of our responsibility here in determining all of the relevant
circumstances in connection with the assassination of the President.
I believe you are going to give us something of the routine by which
Presidents are protected?
Mr. BOUCK. Yes.
Mr. McCLOY. I will ask you to rise and hold up your right hand.
Do you solemnly swear the testimony you give in this hearing will be
the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth, so help you God?
Mr. BOUCK. I do.
Mr. STERN. Mr. Bouck, I would like to outline first the order of
questioning I have in mind to give you a notion of how I would like to
proceed and how you might respond to particular questions.
I would like to cover first your biographical background, then
the functions of the Protective Research Section, generally the
organization of the Section, the sources of information on which you
rely regarding potentially dangerous people, the criteria you employ
to determine when an individual might be dangerous, what you do with
the information once you receive it, and then some detail on how your
filing system is set up and operates, how do you get at data.
Then based on all that background information, the preparations that
were actually made for the President's trip to Texas.