Mr. Rankin.

While you are making further search for this last item, would you kindly make another search to see if you do have any copy of Dobbs' No. 13 and also the letter from Lee Harvey Oswald of March 24?

Mr. Dobbs.

That's referred to here?

Mr. Rankin.

Yes.

Mr. Dobbs.

Yes. We will make a recheck.

Mr. Rankin.

We should also like that clipping that is referred to as being enclosed with Mr. Oswald's letter, if you find it.

Mr. Dobbs.

Yes.

Mr. Rankin.

I was not quite clear, Mr. Dobbs, about your response in regard to that. Is that the type of letter you would not expect to have a copy of in the files?

Mr. Dobbs.

Yes.

Mr. Rankin.

Because it is a general form that is followed? Is that the reason?

Mr. Dobbs.

Yes. The reason--I can explain to you, however, our basic procedure in matters of this kind. We receive quite a few inquiries, and we have more or less an established policy of reply along the lines I have indicated to you, so we do not keep an accumulation of the all the letters received and all the replies sent. As I told you, our office work is done essentially by volunteer help. We are a small organization with meager resources, and we have to adjust our proceedings accordingly.

Mr. Rankin.

Do you have any knowledge of any collaboration, association or combination of any of the people in the Socialist Workers Party, Pioneer Publishers, or The Militant, with Lee Harvey Oswald and his action in connection with the assassination of President Kennedy?

Mr. Dobbs.

None whatever. So far as I know, nobody in any of the categories mentioned by you ever knew anything about him other than the written material that we have made available to you.

Mr. Rankin.

With your position in connection with these organizations, would you have such material? Would such information be available to you if it existed?

Mr. Dobbs.

Yes. If anybody in the organization would know, I would know. I am the central executive officer of the party.

Mr. Rankin.

You are satisfied that no one had such an association with Lee Harvey Oswald from those organizations?

Mr. Dobbs.

Absolutely so.

Mr. Rankin.

Do you know of any other communications, either orally or in writing, between any of those organizations and Lee Harvey Oswald, other than what has been produced here?

Mr. Dobbs.

No; I do not.

Mr. Rankin.

We have some information, Mr. Dobbs, that when Lee Harvey Oswald was about 16 years of age, he communicated with the Socialist Party of America and the Socialist Call. I would like to know whether or not those have any relationship with the organizations that I have just described that you have some connection with?

Mr. Dobbs.

No, sir; it is an entirely different organization. Our organization didn't come into being until 1938.

Mr. Rankin.

And these organizations, the Socialist Call and the Socialist Party of America, were not predecessors of your organization?

Mr. Dobbs.

No.

Mr. Rankin.

Or associated in any way?

Mr. Dobbs.

No.

Mr. Rankin.

Do you have any knowledge of any conspiracy or association with Lee Harvey Oswald by anybody with regard to whatever he did in connection with the assassination of President Kennedy?

Mr. Dobbs.

No; I do not, and I would add that it's a matter of historic record, long established, that our organization's philosophy is opposed to individual acts of political terrorism.

Mr. Rankin.

Do you have any. additional information beyond what you have supplied here that might be of assistance to the Commission in regard to the assassination of. President Kennedy?