Mr. Bouck. Nothing was done by PRS.
Mr. Stern. These individuals did come to light in the liaison activities just prior to President Kennedy's trip to Dallas?
Mr. Bouck. Yes, sir.
Mr. Stern. And they were then, as I understand it, placed in your permanent records and are now in your trip-index files?
Mr. Bouck. That is correct.
Mr. Stern. Mr. Bouck, since the Stevenson trip received a great deal of publicity and I take it you knew about it at the time or PRS knew about it, can you tell us why there was no effort in October to determine who these people were for possible use if President Kennedy or a later President should consider a trip to Dallas?
Mr. Bouck. Well, there are a great many disturbances and activities around, and we have never felt that we should document those per se inasmuch as they did not constitute a jurisdiction—they were not within our jurisdiction except when the President went to an area, so it has always been something that we attempted to resolve when we had jurisdiction in the area because the President was going there, rather than engage in investigative activity that was not within our jurisdiction just per se, whenever there was a disturbance.
Mr. Stern. I am not sure I follow that. I take it your jurisdiction is to determine, perhaps not to act upon, but to determine people who might be threats to the President or Vice-President.
Mr. Bouck. These people were not judged at that time to be threats to the President, necessarily.
Mr. Stern. I see. Their activities in connection with Ambassador Stevenson's visit did not seem to you at that time——