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access to the list, they prove to be someone who has a legitimate reason for being where he is and working where he does work, and who acts as an organizer and an active person in the local Communist Party, and also has a contact with the F.B. I. and reports to them regularly. That is, he is not hired by the F.B.I., but he has a contact with them. He's what they call “our contact man.” And if he has made a number of reports which turn out on later examination to be correct, he is put down as “known to be reliable.” F.B.I. has several classifications of people. “T, 25, who is known to be reliable.” That means he's always proved to be right before and we trust him, we think what he says is correct.

Then you'll get “T, 32” who has access to some information and is probably correct, and you'll have “T, 47” who may be correct, and then you'll have “T, 52” who has reported before and is of doubtful validity. That is, there are certain people who report to them all the time and on investigation their reports have been not correct, and whom the F.B.I. classifies. They give you the information, but they classify it as “likely to be incorrect.”

Didn't this bother you, this business of the accuser and the accused never facing each other?

Oh, it bothered me terribly. It bothered me