Our agents in the field are instructed to accept any invitation to teach in a police school of any level or security school, and we have prescribed exact outlines of material they should get across. One of the main topics being the protection topic.
We teach in Marine schools here in Washington. We teach in some of the State activities; a number of the different military activities. We have had students from most of the bigger agencies of government, CIA, State, and so forth, who have attended these portions of our training schools.

Mr. Stern.

What requests do you make to other Federal agencies?

Mr. Bouck.

We make this same request--that we desire any and all information that they may come in contact with that would indicate danger to the President.

Mr. Stern.

How are these requests communicated?

Mr. Bouck.

They are fundamentally communicated by personal contact of varying degrees with the FBI. We have a personal liaison contact in which an individual, a liaison officer actually makes daily contact.
With the other agencies, other security agencies and enforcement agencies, we are--people on my staff have personal relationships where we can call on the telephone and do call on the telephone very frequently, sometimes some agencies everyday, and they in turn call us.

Mr. Stern.

What agencies do you have these liaison relationships with--Federal agencies?

Mr. Bouck.

We have on a commonly used basis, we have some liaison with almost all of them but on a common using basis we have these relationships with CIA, with the several military services, with the Department of State. I have mentioned the FBI.

Mr. Stern.

Central Intelligence Agency?

Mr. Bouck.

Oh, yes; very much so. They are, especially on trips very, very helpful.

Mr. Dulles.

Foreign trips?

Mr. Bouck.

Foreign trips, yes.

Representative Ford.

How often do your people check to see procedures which are used by these various agencies for the determination of whether an individual is a dangerous person?

Mr. Bouck.

We don't do that systematically. We frequently have such discussions but they are usually on a specific basis. Our representative will call up and say, "We just received this information. Would this be of interest to you."
In these borderline cases, we have much of that, and after discussion we decide whether it would or would not be. But outside of raising this question as it comes in connection with business between our agencies we do not make a practice of just simply querying them on this. We have not done that, as I recall.

Representative Ford.

You don't lay down a particular criterion for Agency X, Y, or Z?

Mr. Bouck.

No. We have the one general criterion that we have advocated for many years. I think it is quite well understood. We do not see signs that there were any lack of knowledge that this was our job and we wished this kind of information.

Mr. Dulles.

Have you made any study going back in history of the various attempts that have been made, and successful and unsuccessful attempts, that have been made against Presidents or----

Mr. Bouck.

Rulers.

Mr. Dulles.

Or people about to be President, or who have been President?

Mr. Bouck.

Yes, yes. We have not only studied all of our own but we have studied all of the assassinations that we could find any record of for 2,000 years back. And strangely enough some of the thinking that went on 2,000 years ago seems to show up in thinking of assassinations today.

Mr. Stern.

Do you increase protection on the Ides of March?

Mr. Dulles.

Is that available? Is that--I don't know.

Mr. Bouck.

It is available in a rather crude form. It has not been boiled down to a concise report.