Mr. Rankin. Because it is a general form that is followed? Is that the reason?
Mr. Dobbs. Yes. The reason—I can explain to you, however, our basic procedure in matters of this kind. We receive quite a few inquiries, and we have more or less an established policy of reply along the lines I have indicated to you, so we do not keep an accumulation of the—all the letters received and all the replies sent. As I told you, our office work is done essentially by volunteer help. We are a small organization with meager resources, and we have to adjust our proceedings accordingly.
Mr. Rankin. Do you have any knowledge of any collaboration, association or combination of any of the people in the Socialist Workers Party, Pioneer Publishers, or The Militant, with Lee Harvey Oswald and his action in connection with the assassination of President Kennedy?
Mr. Dobbs. None whatever. So far as I know, nobody in any of the categories mentioned by you ever knew anything about him other than the written material that we have made available to you.
Mr. Rankin. With your position in connection with these organizations, would you have such material? Would such information be available to you if it existed?
Mr. Dobbs. Yes. If anybody in the organization would know, I would know. I am the central executive officer of the party.
Mr. Rankin. You are satisfied that no one had such an association with Lee Harvey Oswald from those organizations?
Mr. Dobbs. Absolutely so.
Mr. Rankin. Do you know of any other communications, either orally or in writing, between any of those organizations and Lee Harvey Oswald, other than what has been produced here?
Mr. Dobbs. No; I do not.