Mr. Secretary, are you familiar with the method of selection of the Secret Service personnel?
Secretary DILLON. Only somewhat. They do get young men who meet their qualifications. They do hire them at GS-7 and they stay there for 1 year. If they have a year of satisfactory service, they are promoted two grades. Then if they have 2 more years of satisfactory service, they are promoted another double jump to GS-11.
These individuals do not have the legal qualifications that some other law enforcement agencies such as the FBI require, where you have to be a lawyer or an accountant, because they do other kinds of investigative work and that wasn't thought to be necessary in the case of the Secret Service.
But the Secret Service has felt, and I have inquired into this, that they have no difficulty in getting young men of the highest type to come and to take these jobs under the present setup.

Mr. Rankin.

Do you have a printed or written list of the various qualifications that you seek in regard to the Secret Service?
Secretary DILLON. I don't---I am not aware of that. There probably is such a list; yes.

Mr. Rankin.

If you have such a list will you please supply it to us?
Secretary DILLON. Yes; I will be glad to.

Mr. Rankin.

Mr. Chief Justice, I would like to ask leave to give the next number of exhibits to that document once supplied and make it part of the record.

The Chairman.

It may be admitted.
(The document referred to was marked Commission Exhibit No. 1053-E for identification and received in evidence.)

Mr. Rankin.

Mr. Secretary, are you familiar in a general way with the investigation that the Commission has been making with regard to this matter?
Secretary DILLON. Yes; In a general way, I have followed it through Mr. Carswell, who has followed it more closely, and through the Secret Service, so I am generally aware of it.

Mr. Rankin.

And are you generally aware of the investigation in connection with the assassination, the entire matter?
Secretary DILLON. Oh, yes.

Mr. Rankin.

Have you made any inquiry in the Secret Service to determine whether or not Lee Harvey Oswald was ever an agent of that Service?
Secretary DILLON. Yes. I heard rumors of this type of thing very early, and I asked the direct question of Chief Rowley and was informed that he never had any connection with the Secret Service.

Mr. Rankin.

Do you know of any evidence in regard to Lee Harvey Oswald being an agent of any part of the government?
Secretary DILLON. I am not aware of any evidence myself in that way, but I don't think I necessarily would be fully competent in that.

Mr. Rankin.

But you have never heard of any such evidence?
Secretary DILLON. I have never heard it.

Mr. Rankin.

Do you know of any area of the investigation of the Commission that you would like to suggest that we do more than we have insofar as you are familiar with it?
Secretary DILLON. No. As far as I know, the investigation has been very thorough.

Mr. Rankin.

Do you know of any credible evidence that would lead you or anyone to believe that there was a conspiracy, foreign or domestic, involved in the assassination of President Kennedy?
Secretary DILLON. No. From all the evidence I have seen, this was the work of one deranged individual.

Mr. Rankin.

And who would that be?
Secretary DILLON. Lee Harvey Oswald.

Mr. Rankin.

Do you know of any evidence in regard to any connection between Jack Ruby and Lee Harvey Oswald?
Secretary DILLON. No, no.

Mr. Rankin.

Is there anything that you would like to call to the attention of the Commission at this time that we should know or that we should cover?

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