During the same period on these cases we arrested 167 people and 91 investigations were unproductive. They did not solve the cases.
Mr. Stern. You stated that the volume of information received has been rising. Would you describe the total for the years 1943, 1953, and 1963?
Mr. Bouck. Yes. These do not represent cases. These represent items of information reported.
In 1943 we had about 7,000 such items coming to our attention; in 1953 this had increased to somewhat over 17,000 items. By 1963 this had increased in excess of 32,000 items.
Mr. Stern. Each of those items is examined by one of the five Special Agents working on this area?
Mr. Bouck. That is right.
Mr. Stern. Now of the 34 Texas cases in this 2-year period——
Mr. Dulles. Could I ask a question before you get on the Texas cases, on this record, it indicates that about 6,000 cases were "received but not investigated" it seems to me for the record it would be well to have a little more on that as to why they weren't investigated, and so forth.
I suppose in a great many cases, you couldn't find who it was. It was an anonymous letter that came in. Would that be included?
Mr. Bouck. Not for the cause of this, sir. I assume you are speaking of this 7,337 cases.