Mr. Stern. Is there any addition or correction you would like to make to the report as it stands now?
Mr. Fain. No, sir.
Mr. Stern. The report shows on the cover page, Mr. Fain, that a copy was sent to the Office of Naval Intelligence in New Orleans, La. Can you tell us why that was done?
Mr. Fain. Well, this investigation at this time was under internal security category R, and you will notice that predicated on information received by a communication of January 11, 1961, from District Intelligence Office, Naval District, New Orleans, La., advising that Oswald, who had attempted to defect in Russia in October 1959, and who was a member of the U.S. Marine Corps Reserve had been given an undesirable discharge from the U.S. Marine Corps Reserve on August 17, 1960.
Mr. Stern. When you say the investigation was predicated on this information, what precisely do you mean?
Mr. Fain. That was the reason that this report was initiated from that incoming communication from New Orleans.
Mr. Stern. And how did this information come to you? Was it sent to you directly, if you know, from the New Orleans Naval District or did it come from FBI——
Mr. Fain. It would have come through Dallas, the headquarters division office in Dallas.
Mr. Stern. But so far as you know was it sent from New Orleans to Dallas or from New Orleans to FBI headquarters in Washington and then disseminated to Dallas?
Mr. Fain. I expect it came directly to the Dallas office. It could have been, the office there might have gotten a copy of it, might have gotten the original, and this might have been a copy. I just don't recall.