Mr. HOSTY. In Dallas.
Mr. DULLES. In Dallas?
Mr. HOSTY. Right, and this communication to New Orleans was a request
that we be made origin.
Mr. STERN. I wonder if I might summarize this?
Mr. DULLES. It is not clear to me.
Mr. HOSTY. You missed a lot of this.
Mr. STERN. The file was closed, sir, until March of 1963 when Mr. Hosty
decided it should be reopened on the basis of two items of information,
one of them the fact that Lee Harvey Oswald was listed as a subscriber
to the Worker newspaper.
Mr. DULLES. This is the Dallas file you are now talking of?
Mr. STERN. Dallas. The case was closed in the Dallas office. He
reopened it in the Dallas office. He subsequently found that Oswald had
moved, apparently permanently, to New Orleans, and had the file and the
case administratively shifted as far as his responsibility, as far as
his primary responsibility, to the New Orleans office.
Mr. DULLES. Does that mean the papers were also shifted?
Mr. HOSTY. No, sir; just those papers which they lacked. I reviewed
our file. I could tell what communications they had and which
communications they didn't. I then gave them all communications which I
was not certain that they had.
Mr. DULLES. But the other communications remained in the Dallas file?
Mr. HOSTY. Right.
Mr. DULLES. But the Dallas file, then, was not, in a sense, reactivated
since the action had been transferred to New Orleans, is that correct?
Mr. HOSTY. To New Orleans; right. Then in October the case was shifted
back to Dallas again.
Mr. DULLES. At what time?
Mr. HOSTY. Well, actually, November 4 would be our request to have the
case transferred back to Dallas office of origin.
Mr. STERN. I think you ought to make clear, Mr. Hosty, to Mr. Dulles,
that early in October you started doing something for the New Orleans
office at their request.
Mr. HOSTY. Yes.
Mr. STERN. New Orleans found that they couldn't locate Lee Harvey
Oswald in New Orleans.
Mr. DULLES. He had left in the meantime?
Mr. HOSTY. Right.
Mr. STERN. Yes; from their leads he seemed to have gone back into the
Dallas area, and they asked the Dallas office to see if they could
locate him. Mr. Hosty was doing this work at the end of October and the
beginning of November when he ran these interviews. Just to complete
that, Mr. Hosty, you expected, did you not, that the case would be
reassigned?
Mr. HOSTY. Oh, yes.
Mr. STERN. To the Dallas office?
Mr. HOSTY. Oh, yes. This was tantamount to requesting it be shifted to
us, yes, when I sent this communication.
Mr. STERN. And you were beginning to think in terms of the case being
your problem again?
Mr. HOSTY. Right.