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everything that could bear on the situation. Then you look at it at leisure, you see, and you follow up leads, in other words, as they appear in the public Press. That's one of the best places to get them.

My impression of the F.B.I. was that they do a pretty good job. They never make a judgment. You never can pull out of them a conclusion. They won't tell you what they think, you see. They tell you what they've found.

They won't tell you where they found it, just what they've found.

No. And they won't tell you what they conclude to be the case.

Did you read that article in Harpers' “How Good is an F.B.I. Report?” He blasted this thing apart.

What, the F.B.I. reports? Well, the F.B.I. reports are not necessarily good. I mean, some of them are very poor, and the F.B.I. knows that. They can't use all have to do with what they've got. Some crackpot may have said, “This man is a Communist,” or “This man was the leader of a Communist riot in Seattle.”

G. Bromley Oxnam ran across this sort of thing.

Yes, he ran across that. Well, of course,