Representative Ford. During your experience in Fort Worth or otherwise, did you ever have a case similar to the Oswald case, a defector who had returned to the United States?
Mr. Fain. No, sir.
Representative Ford. This was your only one?
Mr. Fain. I had read in the newspapers about them occurring in various areas in the United States but this was the first one I had handled.
Representative Ford. This was the only one of a similar nature that you handled?
Mr. Fain. I believe there were some cases back there too. We did handle one or two of those where the man in the service had made some kind of a remark, and we had interviewed him when he returned. I remember two or three of those cases when he returned to this country.
We contacted him to ascertain what his employment was, what his status was, what his present residence was, what his present attitude was, and whether or not he would report to us if he were contacted under auspicious circumstances abroad or otherwise. We worked on several of those, that type of case.
Representative Ford. Your contacts with these confidential informants, were they prior to or subsequent to this interview with Oswald?
Mr. Fain. This was subsequent. This was the day following. I had also previously interviewed them.
Representative Ford. I think there was a somewhat similar statement in one of your other reports.