Mr. Fain. Subject, particularly if it is something other than routine; yes, sir.
Mr. Stern. This, as far as you were concerned, was something other than routine?
Mr. Fain. In internal security cases, in a case of this magnitude and this importance, we would always have two agents present.
Mr. Stern. When you say a case of this magnitude and a case of this importance, what do you have in mind?
Mr. Fain. Well, this man had been to Russia, and we wanted to try to find out whether he had been recruited by the Russians to do a job against the United states.
Mr. Stern. So this, in relation to your other cases, was an important case?
Mr. Fain. It was important.
Mr. Dulles. Do you often conduct interviews in a car or was this rather unusual?
Mr. Fain. We felt that in this case we could get his cooperation better if we could show to him that we weren't trying to embarrass him. I explained to him that afternoon, "We didn't contact you at your place of employment; we didn't want to embarrass you before your employer," and didn't want to upset his wife and, therefore, I hadn't bothered his wife, and we just felt if we talked to him there in the car informally, he would better cooperate with us.
Mr. Dulles. It wasn't because he showed reluctance to have you go in the house or didn't invite you or anything of that kind?