Mr. BOUCK. Analysis.
Mr. McCLOY. Flowing from that the mere fact that a man or woman was a
defector, or a man is a member of a political organization doesn't in
itself embody the threat to the United States, to the President, the
person of the President of the United States.
Mr. BOUCK. Right.
Mr. McCLOY. It is only as there is some additional element that causes
you to fear that there is a potential menace that you put in that
category you have been talking about?
Mr. BOUCK. Yes, sir.
Mr. STERN. I think we might illustrate that, Mr. McCloy, by a series of
abstracts of cases that Mr. Bouck has prepared. I show you Commission
Exhibit No. 766 for identification.
Mr. BOUCK. Yes.
Mr. STERN. And would you describe that and summarize very briefly the
cases involved there which I think are intended to typify, are they
not----
Mr. BOUCK. Yes; I prepared this and the thought was that the Commission
might be interested in a couple of examples of how the PRS function has
been helpful in protection, and so three cases have been presented in
this paper.
Mr. STERN. Mr. Bouck, have you anything you would like to add, any
clarification, any amplification of the matters we have discussed this
morning?
Mr. BOUCK. I don't believe so. I think Mr. McCloy's summary probably
exceeds anything I could give, and I think it is quite good and
reflects, I believe, what we were trying to get at here.
Mr. STERN. Have you reviewed the memoranda and other exhibits that
you have identified this morning and do you have any corrections or
additions to make to those?
Mr. BOUCK. No, sir; I think they are accurate.
Mr. STERN. Mr. Chairman, I would like to request the admission of all
the exhibits that Mr. Bouck has identified for us this morning. I have
no further questions.
Mr. McCLOY. They may be admitted.
(The documents referred to, previously marked as Commission Exhibit
Nos. 760 through 766, were received in evidence.)
Mr. McCLOY. I have one more question I would like to ask you. In the
light of what you know now about the whole episode, have you come to
any conclusions as to how you ought to operate in the future other than
you did in the Dallas situation?
Mr. BOUCK. As Mr. Carswell has mentioned, of course, a great deal
of study is being conducted. I think there are a number of other
things that can be done. Great problems arise as to human rights and
constitutional rights and costs and resources and just sheer--dealing
with just sheer volumes of millions of people, and I do not feel I
would want to give final judgment as to whether we should do these
things until we have completed all of these studies, but perhaps there
will be some that will----
Mr. McCLOY. Do you at this stage have any definite ideas about any
steps that ought to be taken for the added protection of the President?
Mr. BOUCK. Well, I have quite a lot of them which are incorporated in
this study. I have been, and as I understand it, the Commission perhaps
will have the benefit of that but I have been very heavily involved
in many, many ways in this study, and as to the final conclusions, of
course, I think maybe it goes all the way to the Congress to decide the
practicality of some of this.
Mr. McCLOY. I am sure it does.
Mr. BOUCK. I just don't quite feel in a position to say that I would
want to recommend most of these things without reservation at this
time. If I might, without presuming to evade your question, if we could
delay that a little bit until we have completed this rather massive
look that we are now taking.
Mr. McCLOY. Very well. Thank you very much for your cooperation, and
very much obliged to you and the Treasury Department for helping us.
Mr. BOUCK. Thank you, sir.
Mr. McCLOY. To achieve our--perform our duties.
Thank you.
We will adjourn until 2 o'clock.
(Whereupon, at 1 p.m., the President's Commission recessed.)