Mr. LATONA. First of all, I saw him touch it, but I am not even sure he left a print there. Representative BOGGS. Well, I can see it. Mr. LATONA. As to the quality of the print, there again it is simply a matter of what material you have in your hands that made that print, as to how long it will last, how long it will take for it to evaporate. Actually, when it dries out, it may, in itself, leave a print with such clarity that it would not--even though it would not accept the powder, still by highlighting it, the way you did to see that the print was there, we could photograph it so it would come out just as clear as though it were black on white. Representative BOGGS. Does the material that one touches have any effect? Mr. LATONA. Very definitely. It depends on how hard or smooth the material is. Representative BOGGS. Now, does a weapon lend itself to retaining fingerprints? Mr. LATONA. This particular weapon here, first of all, in my opinion, the metal is very poorly finished. It is absorbent. Believe it or not, there is a certain amount of absorption into this metal itself. It is not finished in the sense that it is highly polished. Representative BOGGS. So this would be conducive to getting a good print, or would it? Mr. LATONA. It would not. Representative BOGGS. I see--because it would absorb the moisture. Mr. LATONA. That's right. Now, there are other guns--for example, Smith and Wesson, which have exceptionally nice finishes, the blue metal finishes are better surfaces for latent prints. Where you have a nickel-plated or silver-plated revolvers, where it is smooth--they are much more conducive to latent prints than some of these other things, say like the army type, the weapons used in wartime that are dull, to avoid reflection--things of that type--they are not as good. Mr. DULLES. I wonder if you would like to look at the fingerprints we have gone over. They are quite apparent there with the glass. Representative BOGGS. I would like to look at them. That is all I want to ask right at the moment. Mr. DULLES. I would like to ask a general question. Mr. LATONA (addressing Representative Boggs). This is one of the fingerprints developed on the brown wrapper. It is this print here. Mr. DULLES. You can see these prints quite clearly, and the palmprint. Representative BOGGS. This is a photograph of that? Mr. LATONA. This is approximately a time and a half enlargement. This is the left index finger. Here is the palmprint that was developed. Representative FORD. Mr. Boggs--each of us here, Mr. Dulles, Mr. Murray, and myself, have said on the record that we have seen the prints on the wrapping. We did this because, as Mr. Latona has indicated, such prints may disappear over a period of time. We thought it might be well for the record to indicate that we saw them. If you wish to do the same---- Representative BOGGS. I would like to do the same, having just seen it.