(Testimony of Robert Inman Bouck Resumed)
Mr. Stern.
That were in the trip-index file involving the jurisdiction of the Houston field office?
Mr. Bouck.
Yes.
A notation was made at that time for the individual in charge of that section and on the 14th he again checked that file. He pulled out these two cards, and he checked the checkup file and concluded that these in the State of Texas were the only two uncontrolled people that we should alert the field about, and he pulled the case jackets on these two people and reviewed those, and then caused an alert to be prepared on these two people, the original being sent to the White House Detail, and the copy being sent to the field office.
Mr. Stern.
These are the same two Houston cases?
Mr. Bouck.
Yes.
Mr. Stern.
Was there an additional case added on the 14th?
Mr. Bouck.
No; not by our section. There were just the two. There were cases picked up in the field on some of these, but we only sent out the two cases as being in our opinion of protective concern on that trip.
Mr. Stern.
Would you look, Mr. Bouck, please, at the first page of Exhibit 760, the first text page, the third paragraph, the middle of the paragraph, it says, "On November 14, 1963, the above indicated clerical employee prepared an office memorandum advising the name of one PRS subject who had previously been referred to the interested offices and was still of concern and furnishing identifying data on a new PRS subject who had not been previously included in the alert."
Mr. Bouck.
These were the two cases. The one we had alerted on a previous trip, the deputy sheriff one, had not been, that had occurred since a previous trip and so this was the first time that we had told the detail and the field office that this individual should be looked at. Making a total of two.
Mr. Stern.
Were there entries in the trip-index file then for the other cities that the President was planning to visit or the other field office areas, Dallas, San Antonio, and El Paso?
Mr. Bouck.
No; there were no cards on any of the other three cities, indicating uncontrolled people.
Mr. Stern.
So in the four field offices covering the entire State of Texas there were in the trip index only two cards both of them residing in the Houston office area?
Mr. Bouck.
That is correct.
Mr. Stern.
Now, do you know what was done in Dallas to supplement this investigation into potentially harmful people?
Mr. Bouck.
Dallas made contact with the local authorities, they had contact with the FBI, they had contact with the local police in Dallas, and also some of the suburbs, particularly Denton, Tex., in which they received information on several situations and several individuals in addition to, well, they received this information.
Mr. Stern.
Are those cases summarized in Exhibit 762?
Mr. Bouck.
Yes; they are. I think the first one of those is page No. 2 of Exhibit 762, which involved people who had attempted to embarrass Ambassador Stevenson. Also page 3 is a further one. I believe they also received information on some scurrilous literature that was being circulated in Dallas at that time from the FBI.
Mr. Stern.
Now, referring to the visit of Ambassador Stevenson in October, I believe----
Mr. Bouck.
Yes.
Mr. Stern.
Was anything done at the time of that visit in October to identify the people who were participating in the obstreperous conduct that occurred?
Mr. Bouck.
I do not know. It was nothing----
Mr. Stern.
So far as PRS was concerned?
Mr. Bouck.
Nothing was done by PRS.
Mr. Stern.
These individuals did come to light in the liaison activities just prior to President Kennedy's trip to Dallas?
Mr. Bouck.
Yes, sir.
Mr. Stern.
And they were then, as I understand it, placed in your permanent records and are now in-your trip-index files?
Mr. Bouck.
That is correct.
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