Mr. RANKIN. Would you know, then, whether Lee Harvey Oswald was a subscriber to the Worker, of your own knowledge? Mr. ABT. Just say of your own knowledge, whether you actually know it or don't. Mr. JOHNSON. I mean, not of my own knowledge; no. That's the point, I would say. Mr. RANKIN. Did the fact that he was a subscriber come to your attention at some time, through hearsay or otherwise? Mr. JOHNSON. Through hearsay only. Mr. RANKIN. Was that from him or someone else? Mr. JOHNSON. From him in one of the letters. Mr. RANKIN. Did you supply some correspondence that you had with Lee Harvey Oswald to someone in connection with the consideration of the assassination of President Kennedy? Mr. JOHNSON. Yes; I supplied all of it. Mr. RANKIN. About when was that that you did supply that information? Mr. JOHNSON. In the first week of December. Mr. RANKIN. What year? Mr. JOHNSON. 1963. Mr. RANKIN. How did you happen to supply that information? Mr. JOHNSON. Well, I supplied it in the office of John Abt to the representative of the FBI at the time, in the presence of my attorney, John Abt, and it was supplied to the FBI agent who came, and I assume was conducting the investigation on behalf of the Commission at the time. Mr. RANKIN. Now, before you supplied that material to this FBI agent, did you make any search of files to determine what information, correspondence or records you had in regard to Lee Harvey Oswald? Mr. JOHNSON. Oh, yes. Very extensive. We went through every bit of the office. Mr. RANKIN. Did you do that yourself or have it done under your supervision and direction? Mr. JOHNSON. I did it myself. Mr. RANKIN. How large a search was that? I would like to establish how complete, if I can. Mr. JOHNSON. I will admit the files are not exactly in an organized fashion. It's--it was material in which there were a lot of other letters and things like that. So I went through these files several times. Mr. RANKIN. Yourself? Mr. JOHNSON. All the files, back and forth. Mr. RANKIN. You did that yourself? Mr. JOHNSON. Yes. Mr. RANKIN. And those were all the files that you could find that might show any correspondence between---- Mr. JOHNSON. Oh, yes. Mr. RANKIN. The Communist Party and Mr. Lee Harvey Oswald? Mr. JOHNSON. Yes; that would be the complete file, everything, all the correspondence. Mr. RANKIN. About when did you make this search? Mr. JOHNSON. Frankly, I started right after the assassination was announced. As soon as that name appeared, I started to make a search. Mr. RANKIN. Why did you do this? Mr. JOHNSON. Somehow the name struck my memory. Mr. RANKIN. Why did you supply the information to the FBI agent that was investigating? Mr. JOHNSON. Oh, because I felt dutybound to cooperate in the full with the Government in any investigation of this assassination. Mr. RANKIN. Do you know whether or not Lee Harvey Oswald was ever a member of the Communist Party of the United States of America?