Mr. Fain. The Federal Bureau of Investigation or it might have come from the Washington field office here.
Mr. Stern. So the seat of Government can mean any communication from Washington, either from your field office here or from your headquarters?
Mr. Fain. That is the way I have been referring to it as seat of Government.
Mr. Stern. I see. All right. Please continue telling us how this investigation was carried out.
Mr. Fain. I was given the assignment to contact his folks, Mrs. Oswald, his mother, and——
Mr. Stern. By whom, if you recall, Mr. Fain? Was this an assignment that came from FBI headquarters or from——
Mr. Fain. This incidentally, this communication, we got dated September 1, 1961, from the Washington field office. You see the seat of Government is the main headquarters, in D.C.
Then we have a field office there, Washington field office, that we refer to as WFO, which is an office similar to the Dallas division or the Buffalo division or other divisions, a working division that goes out and conducts investigations in the area. I was given the assignment to contact Mrs. Oswald, the mother, and to find out any information that she might have. They had been cooperative, and I wanted to see what the situation was, and especially when this boy was coming home. We wanted to interview him and stay on top of the situation, and in that connection I contacted Robert Lee Oswald again because she wasn't in town, I couldn't locate her.
Mr. Stern. Where in your report is that stated?
Mr. Fain. On page 4. He gave me her address, said she had gone to a ranch around Vernon, Tex., in the western area and our agent at Wichita Falls made contact with her. That is set out in the middle of the page—the results of of the contact.