“Mr. Belmont. This is a letter dated March 31, 1964, to the Commission from the FBI to which is attached the instructions contained in our manuals as to the type of information which should be disseminated to Secret Servic …”
“… of our manual of instructions which are available to all of our personnel in the field as well as the seat of Government, and also in the FBI handbook which is in possession of the individual agent in the field. "These instructions require that any information indicating the pos …”
“… e no problem because in those countries there is not a free society such as we enjoy, and the people who are detained have no redress. The FBI approaches this whole field of security—I am not boring you with this, am I? The Chairman. No, indeed. This is tremendously important. M …”
“… ation and will continue to do so, we are uneasy. Again, if I may be permitted to continue, this is inherent in the entire approach of the FBI to the security field. 19”
“… at because that is the broad field of our policy, and I say it with complete sincerity, because I know. I have been in this work with the FBI both in the actual investigative field and in the policymaking and supervisory field for 27 years, and I know the policies and the proced …”
“… ent whose duty it is to stay directly in touch with Secret Service, to cut redtape and produce results both for Secret Service and for the FBI; to see that the problems are handled immediately. He has direct access to Mr. Rowley, and we have on a number of occasions at the reques …”
“… ne, this agent going with Secret Service is done, at the invitation and request of Secret Service. Representative Ford. 169 agents of the FBI who have assisted since the assassination. Did Secret Service make a specific request for their help in these instances? Mr. Belmont. Ye …”
“… h requests before. Mr. Stern. At the level at which the requests have been made so far, have they proved to be a difficult burden for the FBI? Mr. Belmont. Mr. Stern, any time that we have a pending caseload of some thing like 115,000 investigative matters, which is what we hav …”
“… could ask him to just briefly define for us, going back to the assassi nation day, a clear definition of the respective functions of the FBI and the Secret Service prior to and immediately after the assassination. There seemed to have been at one time a little confusion there. …”
“… . Do you have any information whatever that would cause you to believe that Oswald was or could have been an agent or an informant of the FBI? 26”
“… ome considerable detail, Mr. McCloy, and I will make a positive statement that Oswald was not, never was, an agent or an informant of the FBI. - - Mr. McCLOY. In the course of your investigation do you have any reason to make you believe that he was an agent of any other country …”
“… ut any foundation for them, who will disagree violently with whatever findings the Commission makes. But I think it is essential that the FBI investigate the allegations that are received in the future so it can’t be ■ said that we had ignored them or that the case is closed and …”
“… 00 erence in the Department files to the alleged letter from any Department of Justice official to Chief Curry nor any reference that an FBI official was asked to request , the Dallas police not to arrest Oswald or Ruby. A letter is being sent to the Commission today setting fo …”
“… l so it can be made a part of the record. Representative Ford. Under your authority from tne President, the authority which gave you the FBI, the responsibility to conduct this investigation it is not an authority with a terminal point It is an authority that goes on indefinite …”
“publicity purposes or otherwise, that will raise some new angle or new aspect of it. I think we must, and certainly we intend in the FBI to continue to run down any such allegations or reports of that kind. Representative Boggs. Mr. Chairman. The CHAIBMAN. Yes, Congressman …”
“13-00000 Congressman Ford ask you as I came into the room, because I think this is the . crux of our investigation. I read the FBI report very carefully and the whole implication of the report is that, number one, Oswald shot the President; number two, that he was not …”
“else allegedly involved in this assassination. -— Representative Boggs. The FBI interviewed practically everybody who ever associated with Oswald? Mr. Hoover. It did. Representative Boggs. You didn’t find any indicat …”
“… has made a substantial sum. Representative Boggs. And the allegations she has made about this man being an agent either of the CIA or the FBI are false? Mr. Hoover. Well, I can certainly speak for the FBI that it is false, and I 105”
“… y from individuals who, when they get into some kind of difficulty, will claim they were working for the CIA or they were working for the FBI. Representative Boggs. Surely. Mr. Hoover. Now, no one can work for the FBI without the approval being given at Washington and a record …”
“13-00000 FBI never at any time had Oswald as an agent, as an informant, or in any . other way. Mr. HOOVER. That is correct. I couldn't make it more em …”
“indicating employment by the FBI. Representative Ford. And you were not under any limitation or restriction from any other authority in this regard? Mr. Hoover. Absolute …”
“… swered it, but in your examination of this aspect as to whether or not Oswald was an informer or employee or held any relationship to the FBI, you, yourself, have looked into all of the means you have of determining that fact when you make the statement to us? Mr. Hoover. I hav …”
“anything, and the affidavits are on file here that they had not. Senator COOPER. I think you have said there is no sum available to the FBI which would enable these men, these agents, to employ him out of any funds that are made available to them. Mr. Hoover. Oh, no; it must …”
“… ector, beginning when he left the United States and when he returned.. Mr. HOOVER. Yes, sir. Senator COOPER. During that period, did the FBI have any jurisdiction over intelligence regarding him, or any capacity to know? Mr. Hooves. While he was in Russia? - Senator COOPER. Ye …”
“… f they want our assistance and ask for it we, of course, will always cooperate. .In regard to CIA, there are many cases which CIA and the FBI work jointly on, of individuals that may have been recruited over in Europe by the CIA, not by us, because we don’t have authority to do …”
“… ountry itself. Whereas in this country you have separate agencies covering espionage activities. CIA covers the foreign activity, and the FBI the domestic activities, and they must be interlocking. An espionage agent of the Soviet Government can arrive in New York today by plane …”
“… and forth. In order to orally relay information which has come to his? attention, our representative can immediately phone it over to the FBI, and if ( there is need, for instance, to meet a plane coming in to New York or a boat that is docking at New York, it is all accomplishe …”
“… u went through this letter-writing process and the paper war that goes on so often in the Government it might take a week or 10 days. The FBI does have 10 legal attaches attached to 10 embassies abroad. Their purpose is not operational. They don’t investigate in those countries a …”
“… rred; that he received no phone call or any request of any kind oral or by phone or in writing from the Department of Justice or from the FBI. As I stated earlier, the report from the Department of Justice indicated that they made no request. Mr. Rankin. Mr. Chairman, I offer in …”
“… our Dallas Office dated December 23, 1963. This report was not prepared for this Commission but rather for investigative purposes of the FBI and, therefore, the information concerning Hosty's name, telephone number and license number was not in cluded in the report as the circ …”
“… r and name, and Mrs. Oswald for some reason took down the license number. I don’t know whether she was convinced this was an agent of the FBI, or why she did it. 112”
“… facts justifying detention but the public conception is that you have a full right to go out and do these things. We have stressed in the FBI that there must be full compliance”
“… re are some groups that are very violent against the decisions of the court while others are very much in favor of them, it is not for the FBI to take sides. We have a job to do and we do it under the rulings of the courts and we have been able to do it effectively. I know when …”
“… d the information we had run- down in Chicago and had furnished to the Dallas Police Department. If the case had been in the hands of the FBI none of that information would have been given out: Because of the publicity you had to face the charge that the prejudice of the communi …”
“… olicited. From this date through the 2d of July daily information reports were furnished to the State Department, the Secret Service, the FBI and the military services. That is from the 1st of June to the 2d of July, a period of 31, 32 days. On the Sth of June the Secret Service …”
“… f Investigation or the Secret Service is quite adequate. I am not informed as to whether the exchanges between the Secret Service and the FBI are equally adequate. I have not gone into that. I would -have no means to know. Certainly it is most important that it be done. Mr. DULL …”
“… e for espionage, subversion, assassination and other acts of violence, we would, and we do exchange this information immediately with the FBI. Representative Fobd. But in this particular case, Oswald in the Soviet Union, whose responsibility was it to transmit the information, w …”
“… have witnesses today who are Thomas J. Kelley of the Secret Service; Leo J. Gauthier, Lyndal L. Shaneyfelt, and Robert A. Frazier of the FBI. They are going to testify concerning certain 129”
“You consider that the criteria as now furnished by you to the FBI and other investigative agencies would cover a case like Oswald’s? Mr. ROWLEY. Yes, sir.. Mr. DULLES. You think they would? Mr. ROWLEY. …”
“… ere furnished promptly by the different agencies the information on the individual’s name. And this was done in voluminous reports by the FBI, and the other agencies. When they got any information, they would notify the local office, notify their liaison, who notified us by tele …”
“… rrect that now a defector does come within the scope of your Service? Mr. ROWLEY. Yes, sir; we are furnished the names of defectors by the FBI. And they investigate these people. And then in their report, if it shows that the individual has emotional instability or propensity for …”
“… I would think that fact alone would make- it important to watch his activities when he came back. Mr. ROWLEY. It would. And I think the FBI properly conducts the inves tigations, from the standpoint of internal security, and furnishes us a report. And then if there is somethi …”
“beginning of the cooperation, when I was at the White House, with the FBI. Now, in the years subsequent to World War II, anytime we were abroad, I made personal contact with Mr. Dulles, and I think for national …”
“… ropaganda in con- nection with the assassination of President Kennedy. 26 November 1963 DIR 85176 Subject: Marina Nikolaeva OSWALD. (A) (B) FBI RECIPIENT(S) FBI, State, White House, Secret Service”
“6 Subject: Marina Nikolaeva OSWALD. (A) (B) FBI RECIPIENT(S) FBI, State, White House, Secret Service "The following information on Marina Nikolaeva OSWALD, wife of Lee Harvey OSWALD, was …”
“… 0940 hours Mexico City time on 26 November 1963 as reported from sensitive source." (See Chronological Summary on Silvia Tirado de DURAN.): FBI, State, White House, Secret Service NW 65990 Docld:32396775 Page 3 DESCRIPTION OF DOCUMENT (A) (B) RECIPIENT(S) 27 November 1963 CSCI-3/778 …”
“… ir Play for Cuba Committee since its organization in 1960. In Switzerland he has been involved in the publication La Revolution Africaine." FBI FBI, State, White House, Secret Service [Warren Commission] 2 NW 65990 Docld:32396775 Page 4 26 November 1963 DIR 85246 DESCRIPTION OF DOCU …”
“… urn to the USA because there were several indictments outstanding against him. Instead he preferred to live in 3. (A) (B) RECIPIENT(S) USIS FBI, State, White House, Secret Service FBI USEMB London FBI, State, White House NW 65990 Docld:32396775 Page 5 DESCRIPTION OF DOCUMENT”
“vice FBI USEMB London FBI, State, White House NW 65990 Docld:32396775 Page 5 DESCRIPTION OF DOCUMENT relative luxury in a Cuban prison. While SANTOS …”
“… ing the travel to Mexico of Soviet diplomatic couriers Valentin Germanovich PONOMAREV and Aleksey Nikolayevich POPKOV. (A) (B) RECIPIENT(S) FBI FBI FBI, State, White House, Secret Service [Warren Commission] NW 65990 Docld:32396775 Page 6 DESCRIPTION OF DOCUMENT”