Mr. STERN. I would like to turn now, Mr. Bouck, to the sources of
information for PRS on potentially dangerous individuals.
Would you describe the various sources you rely upon?
Mr. BOUCK. Yes. If I might refer to this exhibit that is 760 which
would be page 4 of that, the second memorandum. I believe the front
of that lists the sources. No. 1 is mail, packages, telephone calls,
received at the White House, the President's home, on trips, and so
forth, these are screened, and so forth, in PRS and evaluated and if
they meet certain prescribed criteria they are retained by PRS and
become a source of information.
Unwelcome visitors to the White House or anywhere else the President
may be is another source. Information received----
Mr. DULLES. What page are you on?
Mr. BOUCK. That is the page.
Mr. DULLES. The first page?
Mr. BOUCK. Yes, I am reading from the second paragraph or rather the
tabulation.
Mr. DULLES. Yes, I find it.
Mr. BOUCK. Certain information comes directly to us or is developed
by us, item 3. Item 4, reports from other Government agencies, and
officials. Item 5, reports from police departments, State and local
sources, and then we get a certain amount of phone calls, letters and
information that come directly to us from the public.
Mr. STERN. We may get some notion of the volume of the information you
receive from this document, which is entitled "Protective Research
Cases, November 1961 through November 1963," which would be Exhibit
762. Do you recognize that, Mr. Bouck?
Mr. BOUCK. I do, I prepared this document.
Mr. STERN. May it be admitted?
Mr. McCLOY. It may be admitted.
(The document referred to, previously marked as Commission Exhibit No.
762, for identification, was received in evidence.)
Mr. STERN. Turning to the first page in the summary of Exhibit 762, Mr.
Bouck, you have taken the Protective Research cases from November 1961
to November 1963, which involve residents of the State of Texas, and
these were how many cases?
Mr. BOUCK. 34.
Mr. STERN. And you have broken them down by the source of the
information in four categories which are----
Mr. BOUCK. Letters or phone calls; detected by the Secret Service;
reported by Federal agencies; reported by local authorities.
Mr. STERN. Then towards the bottom of that page you have given gross
figures during the same 2-year period of the nationwide activity. Would
you state what the nationwide caseload was?
Mr. BOUCK. Yes. The cases we received nationwide and did not
investigate because they didn't meet the criteria for investigation
were 7,337. The cases we received and investigated were 1,372.
During the same period on these cases we arrested 167 people and 91
investigations were unproductive. They did not solve the cases.
Mr. STERN. You stated that the volume of information received has been
rising. Would you describe the total for the years 1943, 1953, and 1963?
Mr. BOUCK. Yes. These do not represent cases. These represent items of
information reported.
In 1943 we had about 7,000 such items coming to our attention; in 1953
this had increased to somewhat over 17,000 items. By 1963 this had
increased in excess of 32,000 items.
Mr. STERN. Each of those items is examined by one of the five Special
Agents working on this area?
Mr. BOUCK. That is right.