This, as I understand it, is the new specifications with regard to persons with respect to whom you wish to have alert information.
Mr. Rowley. Yes, sir.
Mr. Dulles. It is called, "U.S. Secret Service Protective Information Guidelines." The top of page 2 of this exhibit is a paragraph that reads, "The interest"—and that is the interest of the suspect, I assume——
Mr. Rowley. Yes, sir.
Mr. Dulles. "The interest must be towards the President, or others named, or other high Government officials in the nature of a complaint coupled with an expressed or implied determination to use a means other than legal or peaceful to satisfy any grievance real or imagined."
I wonder if you could explain that a little more? I ask this question because I have been studying the previous assassinations a good deal. And in many of these cases, it seems to me this definition would not have covered the assassin. That is, there has been in some cases opposition to government, opposition to people in authority, but there has been no expressed hatred toward or animus against a particular President. And I was wondering whether this went too far on a definition to meet your purposes.
Mr. Rowley. This is a beginning, as I indicated to you here. We hope to improve it. But this is one of the things where we want to include the Oswald-type individual.
Now, Oswald wrote to the Governor intimating that he would use whatever means was necessary to obtain the change of his undesirable, or as he called it, dishonorable discharge. All legal means had been used in his case, where the Navy Review Board had examined it and came to a decision.
And this is an example of what we were trying to include in the area of this type of individual. Now, the other people——
Mr. Dulles. But that was not a threat directed against the President. That was directed against the Secretary of the Navy.