Mr. DULLES. Could I ask a question before you get on the Texas cases,
on this record, it indicates that about 6,000 cases were "received but
not investigated" it seems to me for the record it would be well to
have a little more on that as to why they weren't investigated, and so
forth.
I suppose in a great many cases, you couldn't find who it was. It was
an anonymous letter that came in. Would that be included?
Mr. BOUCK. Not for the cause of this, sir. I assume you are speaking of
this 7,337 cases.
Mr. DULLES. That is right.
Mr. BOUCK. In the bottom table.
Mr. DULLES. Of those 1,372 were received and investigated?
Mr. BOUCK. We receive a great deal of information on people that we do
not feel at that time intended to harm the President, but that would
bear watching. We aren't quite sure whether they will become worse in
the future, and this is----
Mr. DULLES. Is that among about the 6,000 cases I am referring to?
Mr. BOUCK. The 7,000.
Mr. DULLES. Well, there are 7,337 cases received, but not investigated.
Mr. BOUCK. These are two separate ones. The investigated cases are in
addition.
Mr. DULLES. This is in addition to that?
Mr. BOUCK. Yes.
Mr. DULLES. I see.
Mr. BOUCK. The 7,000 cases are cases that we received, we looked at,
and felt that we will file it and see if anything more happens on this,
but it doesn't warrant investigative attention until we get something
more alarming than we have.
Mr. DULLES. Who makes that judgment, is that made in your department?
Mr. BOUCK. That is made in my department by one of these five agents
that are listed in this document.
Mr. DULLES. Do you review their determination?
Mr. BOUCK. I do not review all of them. I review a percentage of their
determinations, and I am consulted on any that are borderline or that
are difficult.
Mr. STERN. Of the 34 Texas cases, almost half or 15 were reported by
Federal authorities. Is this typical of all information received by PRS
in the course of a year?
Mr. BOUCK. No, this would be typical of the investigated cases but not
typical of the entire quantity of cases received.
Mr. STERN. I see.
Representative FORD. Are the 34 listed here included in the 7,337 or
the 1,372?
Mr. BOUCK. 1,372.
Mr. STERN. Do you have a judgment, Mr. Bouck, as to the proportion of
cases coming to you from other agencies, Federal agencies, State and
local agencies, of the total number of cases you have?
Mr. BOUCK. About 90 percent of the cases generated would be other
than from agencies. The 10 percent that come from Federal and local
agencies, the majority of that come from Federal agencies. I wouldn't
know quite the percentage. But the majority of the 10 percent would be
Federal agencies.
Mr. STERN. And predominantly from any one agency?
Mr. BOUCK. Yes, predominantly from the Federal Bureau of Investigation.
Mr. STERN. As to the 90 percent that is generated internally, as it
were, do you have an opinion as to how many of those arise because of
correspondence with the White House by the subject?
Mr. BOUCK. The great majority of them arise from telegrams, telephone
calls, unwelcome visitors, letters to the White House.
Mr. STERN. Unwelcome visitors at the White House?
Mr. BOUCK. Yes.
Mr. DULLES. Do you know how many cases within the 7,337 noted here,
which I understand is nationwide, were from Texas?
Mr. BOUCK. Yes. I believe we show that in the third paragraph, 115
cases were in Texas.
Mr. STERN. Yes.
Mr. BOUCK. In addition to the cases investigated. It is up in the third
paragraph from the top, right under the table, the second paragraph
under the table, sir; right where your finger is, the first line there.
Mr. DULLES. 115?
Mr. BOUCK. Yes.
Mr. DULLES. Did the name of Lee Harvey Oswald appear in your files at
any time prior to the 22d of November 1963?
Mr. BOUCK. No, sir; we had never heard of him in any context.
Mr. DULLES. His name doesn't appear at all?
Mr. BOUCK. Not as of that time. Prior to Dallas, it did not appear in
any fashion. We had no knowledge of the name.
Mr. DULLES. You had no report from the State Department or the FBI that
covered his trip to Russia or anything of that kind?
Mr. BOUCK. No, sir.
Mr. McCLOY. Or of the CIA?
Mr. BOUCK. No, sir.
Mr. STERN. Mr. Bouck, what kind of information do you look for, what
are the criteria you apply, in determining whether someone is a
potential danger to the President? What do you ask other agencies,
Federal, State, and local to be on the lookout for?
Mr. BOUCK. Our criteria is broad in general. It consists of desiring
any information that would indicate any degree of harm or potential
harm to the President, either at the present time or in the future.
Mr. STERN. Had you ever prior to Dallas had occasion to--for any part
of your activities--list criteria that you would apply in trying to
determine whether someone is a potential danger?
Mr. BOUCK. We had not had a formal written listing of criteria as such
except in this general form of desiring everything that might indicate
a possible source of harm to the safety of the President. We had some
internal breakdown of information for the processing of certain kinds
of material where the criteria were involved.
Mr. STERN. I didn't mean to restrict my question to criteria for
external sources, but those you used internally as well.
Mr. BOUCK. We had some internal, as well.
Mr. STERN. I show you now a one-page document entitled "The following
criteria are used as guides in determining whether White House mail
is to be accepted for PRS processing," which has been marked for
identification as Commission Exhibit No. 763. Can you identify that?
Mr. BOUCK. Yes, sir; this is a document that I helped draft some years
ago. It is a document I prepared for the Commission. It is a document
that was used up to and at the time of Dallas.
Mr. STERN. For what purpose?
Mr. BOUCK. For the purpose of screening White House mail. The White
House gives us a considerable quantity of mail, not all of which
we--it is desirable that we keep, and this is a guide to the agents in
determining what we should keep and what should go back to be answered
by the White House staff.
Mr. STERN. This guide is not used by the White House mailroom? This is
an internal guide for your own agents?
Mr. BOUCK. My own agents.
Mr. STERN. What instructions does the White House mailroom have as to
mail that is to be sent to you?
Mr. BOUCK. The White House mail has two general instructions: One,
we supply them with identification information on all existing cases
in which mail is concerned; that any further mail in those cases is
automatically referred to us.
Their criteria are the same as our other general criteria--that in
addition to these known cases we desire letters, telegrams, or any
other document they receive that in any way indicates any one may have
possible intention of harming the President.