Mr. Bouck. Yes.
Mr. Stern. Would they also be listed individually?
Mr. Bouck. They would be listed individually if they were of interest to us as individuals. Sometimes we would get the membership of a group of people that attended a lecture, let's say, where very derogatory information was given out about the President, but most of these people seem like ordinary citizens and it doesn't seem like worth investigating. We might have 200 people listed in that, this would not be normal, but it would be a few cases like that.
Mr. Stern. Now, as I understand it you by no means investigate every individual who is in one of these 50,000 cases?
Mr. Bouck. That is correct.
Mr. Stern. And what are the criteria that you use?
Mr. Bouck. The criteria for investigation are feelings that there is indeed an indication that there may be a danger to the President.
Mr. Stern. But there has to be some indication of a potential danger to the President to get that individual into a case to begin with, I take it. If it were clear he was not?
Mr. Bouck. Yes; but not necessarily a current indication. We take many of these where we think an individual is becoming hostile and a little bit disgusted with the President, we take many of those cases to watch these people. We keep getting information here and there along, and frequently after we get the second or third piece of information, we decide indeed this individual is perhaps—does perhaps constitute a menace, and at that point we would investigate it.
Mr. Stern. As I understand it, one of the main purposes of your investigation is to attempt to deal with the dangerous individual at that time?