Mr. Secretary, I will ask you if this document. dated August 31, 1964, is a copy of the letter that you have just referred to now?
Secretary DILLON. That is correct.

Mr. Rankin.

Mr. Chief Justice, I ask that this letter dated August 31, directed "Dear Kermit," from the Secretary be marked the next number in order and offered in evidence as part of the record.

The Chairman.

It will be admitted.
(Commission Exhibit No. 1053-B was marked for identification and received in evidence.)
Secretary DILLON. It is marked "limited official use." and I think that should be declassified for this purpose.

Mr. Rankin.

Now, Mr. Secretary, will you very briefly describe the general plan of your planning document. We have that so we can use it in considerable detail, but if you can just summarize briefly.
Secretary DILLON. Well, in brief, this asks for a total of 205 additional agents, which is about--not quite but nearly--a 50 percent increase from the 415 agents they now have. It asks also for 50 clerks to add to the 171 that are presently there. Those are stenographers, typists and other clerical workers. And for five technicians. Of this the idea is to put 17 agents and the 5 technicians in the PRS. Five would be used to maintain 24-hour coverage in the IRS which is not presently in force because of lack of personnel. One would add to the Research and Countermeasures Unit to fill out three full units that could be operating all the time. Six of them would do advance work for PRS with local agencies and institutions. One of the new things we have instituted is that each time they do an advance, someone from the PRS goes out and works with the local law enforcement agencies. I think that is obviously a very important thing. They need more people in view of the volume of traveling. Then they also need five more employees to expand our liaison with the other law enforcement and intelligence agencies. We now have one man assigned really full time to that. We found even in the period that we have been doing this that while that is a great help much the best way would be to have individuals assigned to each agency that work full time with the agency, know the people in the agency, and that is the only way we can be sure we have adequate liaison.

Mr. Dulles.

May I ask, would that include the FBI?
Secretary DILLON. Oh, yes.

Mr. Dulles.

And the CIA and military intelligence services?
Secretary DILLON. Oh, yes.

Mr. Dulles.

And the State Department possibly?
Secretary DILLON. Yes.

Representative Ford.

Could you specify those agencies. I was interested what agencies you were referring, to.
Secretary DILLON. Well, I would think certainly it would be the military, the FBI, the security services of the State Department and the CIA.
Now, there may be additional ones. There are additional ones within the Treasury Department. I think we probably have one, for instance, with the intelligence section of the Internal Revenue Service, Alcohol and Tobacco Tax Unit, and so forth, which a good deal can come out of.
In addition we recommend here five technical specialists. two of which would be highly trained computer technicians, programers, and three less well trained to work with these others. The purpose of this is to automate the whole PRS operation. We have been thinking of that for some time. It was something that obviously needed to be done.

Mr. Rankin.

Excuse me, Mr. Secretary. Will you describe a little more what you mean by automate.
Secretary DILLON. I mean using electronic processing, punchcard systems, so that they would be able to pull out of their files for any locality, various different types of people that might be a danger or might have made threats to the President or to other high officials, so that they would be able to function rapidly and well in planning protection as the President travels to these various cities.

Mr. Rankin.

Does that include computer systems?

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