Would you raise your right hand and be sworn?
You solemnly swear the testimony you are about to give before the Commission will be the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth, so help you God?
Mr. Rowley. I do.
The Chairman. Will you be seated, please. Mr. Rankin will conduct the examination.
Mr. Rankin. Mr. Chief Justice, before starting the examination, I would like to make a brief statement for your benefit and for the benefit of the Commission, of the problems that are probably going to develop in this area with regard to the security of the country, and a suggestion about how we might handle them as we proceed with the witness.
I have suggested to Chief Rowley that as he moves along in his testimony he might have various matters that he would think should not be on the record because of the security of the country, and if he would just suggest that, when he came to that point, and say specifically that it did involve the security of the country, then we would proceed to go off the record, if it was satisfactory to the Commission, and consider those questions off the record. And then return to the record as soon as we had completed those security matters.
Would that be satisfactory?
The Chairman. I think that is an appropriate way to proceed.
Mr. Rankin. Chief Rowley, will you state your name and address for the record, please?
Mr. Rowley. James J. Rowley, 3501 Rittenhouse Street NW., Washington, D.C.