Mr. Rowley.

Well, we never have enough agents for the activities that the President today is engaged in. We draw from the field to supplement or augment the agents from the White House detail. We move the agents from one point to another where we can--particularly in the area of the advance men.
But in Dallas we had sufficient agents with prior experience in Presidential protection who assisted Mr. Lawson in the advance preparations.

Mr. Rankin.

Did you furnish to the Commission a statement of the preparations that were made £or the trip?

Mr. Rowley.

Yes, sir.

Mr. Rankin.

And that included the various protective activities, did it?

Mr. Rowley.

Yes, sir.

Mr. Rankin.

I hand you Commission Exhibit No. 1021, and ask you if that is the report you made in regard to the trip.

Mr. Rowley.

Yes, sir.
(The document referred to was marked Commission Exhibit No. 1021 for identification.)

Mr. Rankin.

Do you have any corrections or additions that you care to make to it?

Mr. Rowley.

No, sir.

Mr. Rankin.

Mr. Chairman, I offer in evidence Commission Exhibit No. 1021.

The Chairman.

It may be admitted.
(The document heretofore marked for identification as Commission Exhibit No. 1021, was received in evidence.)

The Chairman.

Chief, I have wondered about this question. Some months before Ambassador Adlai Stevenson had been handled very roughly in Dallas. Did you make did your people make any investigation as to that group that caused that disturbance for him, to see if there might be some possibility of the same thing happening to the President?

Mr. Rowley.

Not immediately at the time of the incident that occurred to Mr. Stevenson, but when the advance man came down, that was one of the things that we assigned a local agent to inquire into, to ascertain the hard core of that group, if you will, that were responsible for stimulating that activity. And he contacted an informant, and with the local police, who are members of a special squad that are involved in this kind of activity, they went and identified through pictures, which they saw in the newsreel, the principal members. They had photographs made, and they issued them to the agents on their visit there, to be on the lookout for these men as potential troublemakers.
(At this point, Representative Boggs entered the hearing room.)

The Chairman.

Did they do the same thing concerning the incident that Vice President Johnson had a year or so before that?

Mr. Rowley.

No, sir; not at that time. That was more or less in the heat of a political campaign. I don't think that was a similar type of activity.

The Chairman.

I see.
But you did do it with the Stevenson matter?

Mr. Rowley.

That is right.

Mr. Rankin.

Chief Rowley, did you make a report to the Commission with regard to the publicity concerning the trip of the President?

Mr. Rowley.

Yes, sir.

Mr. Rankin.

And is Commission Exhibit No. 1022 that report?

Mr. Rowley.

Yes, sir.
(The document referred to was marked Commission Exhibit No. 1022 for identification.)

Mr. Rankin.

Do you wish to make any additions or corrections of that letter?

Mr. Rowley.

Of that letter? No.

Mr. Rankin.

Mr. Chairman, I offer in evidence Commission Exhibit No. 1022.

The Chairman.

It may be admitted.
(The document heretofore marked for identification as Commission Exhibit No. 1022, was received in evidence.)

Mr. Rankin.

Chief Rowley, could you inform the Commission about the advance publicity concerning trips of the President to various parts of the country? There has been the question raised as to whether that is a threat to the President,