Now, like I said I read this memorandum, and I read the memorandum, and asked the chief what he was going to do with it and he said, "I don't know."
And then the next morning I heard on television Chief Curry, I don't know whether I heard him or not, he made some kind of statement concerning this memorandum on television, and then later came back and said that wasn't to his personal knowledge, and I think that was—he said that what he said about it he retracted it to some extent but I guess you all have got records of those television broadcasts or at least can get them.
Mr. Rankin. Do you remember whether he said just what was in this Exhibit No. 709 or something less than that or more or what?
Mr. Wade. I don't remember. You see, things were moving fast, and it is hard, there are so many things going on. I will go on to my story.
Mr. Rankin. Yes.
Mr. Wade. I will answer anything, of course.
Mr. Rankin. You can tell us the rest that you said to Chief Curry and he said to you at that time, first.
Mr. Wade. I asked him how the case was coming along and as a practical matter he didn't know. You probably have run into this, but there is really a lack of communication between the chief's office and the captain of detective's office there in Dallas.
Mr. Rankin. You found that to be true.
Mr. Wade. For every year I have been in the office down there. And I assume you have taken their depositions. I don't know what the relations—the relations are better between Curry and Fritz than between Hanson and Fritz, who was his predecessor. But Fritz runs a kind of a one-man operation there where nobody else knows what he is doing. Even me, for instance, he is reluctant to tell me, either, but I don't mean that disparagingly. I will say Captain Fritz is about as good a man at solving a crime as I ever saw, to find out who did it but he is poorest in the getting evidence that I know, and I am more interested in getting evidence, and there is where our major conflict comes in.