Mr. Rowley. It would not, unless it was furnished by the Navy Department or Secretary of the Navy's office.
Just like you gentlemen get letters that never come to our attention. But you might pick up a paper some day and read that this fellow hit somebody, and he was in to see you or wrote you letters.
Representative Ford. Would this criteria be circulated among the 50 Governors, for example, or their staffs, so that if threats are received against a Governor, then the Governor's staff in that particular State would so notify the Secret Service?
Mr. Rowley. It could. In this case it would be a help. But they refer all their complaints to the FBI. Threats of this kind.
Representative Ford. The State?
Mr. Rowley. The Governors do in most cases. So that the FBI under this system would bring it to our attention.
Mr. Dulles. I would think, Mr. Rowley, this might be subject to misinterpretation as being rather narrower than you suggest.
Mr. Rowley. Well, this is something—actually, we have to develop something, and we have to, if you will, have a crash program; we are working constantly to develop the categories and breakdowns as I indicated earlier.
(At this point, Senator Cooper entered the hearing room.)
Mr. Rankin. Chief Rowley, did you supply to us the statements of the Secret Service agents who were informed about the assassination in Dallas? You gave us written statements, did you?