Mr. Stern. But in any event did you check these files at the State Department?
Mr. Fain. I did not.
Mr. Stern. The passport office?
Mr. Fain. No. My investigative jurisdiction was the Fort Worth area and vicinity.
Mr. Stern. Again would you summarize your recollection of the purpose and direction of the investigation at this stage, at the time covered by this report. What do you recall to have been the purpose and direction of the investigation?
Mr. Fain. At this particular point it seems we were looking at this individual, opened the case to find out who he was and see if he was any kind of an internal threat, a threat to the internal security of our country.
Mr. Stern. What was your evaluation of that question as a result of your investigation?
Mr. Fain. At that time we—there was nothing appearing that he was of any potential danger to the security of—I was trying to find out whether or not, you will notice on page 9 there the last paragraph, to see whether or not he was a member of the Communist Party in Fort Worth, and my check of our confidential sources showed that there was no knowledge available, no information available, that he was a member of the Communist Party. That was supposed primarily my immediate objective, to find out whether or not he was connected with the Communist Party there in Fort Worth, in addition to the developing of the background information on him.
Mr. Stern. And this entered into your evaluation at the time, the fact that he was not a member of the Communist Party?
Mr. Fain. Yes, sir; there was no indication that he was a member of the Communist Party in Fort Worth.