Mr. Rankin. FBI?
Mr. Wade. There was an inspector of the FBI who called me two or three times. I don't remember.
Mr. Rankin. Did they tell you how to handle the case in any way?
Mr. Wade. I don't think so. I mean it wasn't really up to them.
Mr. Rankin. The only time you ever talked to Barefoot Sanders about it was in regard to this conspiracy, possibility of, that you have already described?
Mr. Wade. Frankly, that is hard to say. I think we talked off and on every day or two about developments in it, because, you see, well, I don't know whether we talked any more but before the killing by Ruby, but we had nearly a daily conversation about the files in the Oswald case, what we were going to do with them. You see, they were going to give them all to me, and at that stage we didn't know whether it was going to be a President's Commission or a congressional investigation or what. After the President's Commission was set up, I arranged through him and Miller here in the Justice Department that rather than give the files to me, to get the police to turn them over to the FBI and send them to you all, or photostat them and send them to you all.
Barefoot and I talked frequently, but I don't know of anything significant of the Oswald angle that we discussed, and we spent the last 2 months trying to get some of the FBI files to read on the Ruby trial. I mean we talked a lot but I don't know anything further about Oswald into it or anything on Ruby of any particular significance.
Mr. Rankin. Was Barefoot Sanders suggesting how you should handle the Oswald case except the time you already related?
Mr. Wade. I don't recall him doing, suggesting that.
Mr. Rankin. Any other Federal officers suggesting anything like that to you?