Mr. Rankin. Mr. Hoover, is Exhibit 837 the article that you referred to in the National Enquirer?
Mr. Hoover. Yes; that is the one.
Mr. Rankin. I call your attention to Exhibit 836 and ask you if that is the letter that you referred to which describes the criteria in the handling of the security of the President that you have described in your testimony.
Mr. Hoover. This is the letter. It sets forth the criteria which were adopted, originally about 1942 and later incorporated in the manual of instructions in 1954. It also includes the amended instructions to our field offices, prepared in December of 1963, which extended the criteria.
Mr. Rankin. Does that Exhibit correctly set forth the information you had in regard to those matters?
Mr. Hoover. It does.
Mr. Rankin. Do you care to add anything to it?
Mr. Hoover. No; I have nothing to add to it at all.
Mr. Rankin. Now, in light of what happened. Mr. Hoover, I think the Commission would desire to have your comments or whatever you care to tell them, concerning the reasons why you did not furnish the information you had concerning Lee Harvey Oswald to the Secret Service prior to the time of the President's assassination.
Mr. Hoover. Well, I have gone into that very thoroughly because that was obviously one of the questions that I had in my mind when the tragedy occurred in Dallas.