Representative Ford. Is this unusual or different?
Mr. Kellerman. If they evaluated this information, there would have to be a degree of seriousness.
Representative Ford. But, as far as you can best recollect at this point, you were never so informed.
Mr. Kellerman. No, indeed.
Representative Ford. The report does go on to say, and I quote, "One involved scurrilous literature already in the hands of the Secret Service, Exhibit 4. The second involved possible picket trouble which the local police were aware of." That is the picket trouble you were talking about?
Mr. Kellerman. Apparently so.
Representative Ford. The report also says on page 8, "Special Agent Lawson, SAIC Sorrel, and Special Agent Howlett met with Dallas law-enforcement officials. Special Agent Howlett also met with an informant. They followed up all leads and tips and checked scurrilous literature, Exhibit 4." Did you have any information personally about this activity by Lawson, Sorrel, and Howlett?
Mr. Kellerman. No, sir.
Representative Ford. Was it their responsibility to do it, to undertake that kind of an operation?
Mr. Kellerman. Everybody but Lawson. These other two gentlemen you are speaking of are field agents out of Dallas. Yes; they would investigate the seriousness of this thing, through the information furnished by the FBI. And, depending on the degree now, this would be furnished our Protective Research Section here in Washington.