Now, I might say that the CIA has been most helpful. The equipment we used in the early days were from that organization and the State Department.
But now they have gotten so busy, as you well know, that they haven't got much time to assist us.
So that we feel we want to have our own equipment, our own experts, and people that know our work, and devote their time to it.
Representative Ford. When you talk about technical specialists here, you are referring to electronics specialists?
Mr. Rowley. Yes, sir.
Representative Ford. You are not referring to a general research and development program, however?
Mr. Rowley. No, sir; this confusion is why it was refused a year ago.
Representative Ford. Let me ask this, then, Chief Rowley. Would these technical experts, or technical specialists, have been on duty in Dallas on this particular trip if you had had the funds and had employed them?
Mr. Rowley. Yes; but they would have been employed in something entirely different.
Representative Ford. They wouldn't have had any relationship to the motorcade?