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# 13-00000Mr. BELMONT. I have covered that in some considerable detail, Mr. McCloy, and I will make a positive statement that Oswald was not, never was, an agent or an informant of the FBI.Mr. MCCLOY. In the course of your investigation do you have any reason to make you believe that he was an agent of any other country?Mr. BELMONT. No, sir; we have no reason to believe that he was an agent of any other country.Mr. MCCLOY. Or any other agency of the United States?Mr. BELMONT. Or any other agency of the United States.Mr. MCCLOY. You said this morning, I believe, or at least I guess Mr. Hosty said, that the assassination of the President and any leads in connection with it are still of constant concern to the FBI.Do you feel there are any areas as of the present time that you feel at the present time require or justify further investigation other than routine check- ups that have not already been undertaken?Mr. BELMONT. No, sir; frankly, I don't. I will say that from the requests we have received from the Commission, you have explored this most thoroughly. We do not have any unexplored areas in this investigation that should be explored. There are some pending requests that you have made, and we are running them out as rapidly as we can.Mr.. MCCLOY. Maybe this isn't a fair question to ask you, but, after all, you have had a long record of criminal investigation, and you have had a long exposure to investigation in this case.As a result of your investigation do you feel that there is any credible evidence thus far which would support a conclusion or an opinion that the death of the President was the result of a conspiracy or anything other than the act of a single individual?Mr. BELMONT. No, sir; we have no evidence, and I could support no conclu- sion that this was other than an act of Oswald.Mr. MCCLOY. Now, the investigation does lead you to the conclusion that he was the President's assassin?Mr. BELMONT. Yes, sir.Mr. MCCLOY. Did you ever at any time have any connection whatever—you or the agency—have anything to do with the Walker, General Walker, case?Mr. BELMONT No, sir; that was a matter handled by the Dallas police. I am drawing on my recollection of it now, but, as I recall it, after the incident, we offered to examine the bullets that were recovered—Mr. MCCLOY. Bullets.Mr. BELMONT. And the police apparently wanted to retain them, so that we did not conduct the examination of the bullets until subsequent to the assassina- tion itself.Mr. MCCLOY. Until recently.Mr. BELMONT. No; we had no connection with it, with that investigation.Mr. MCCLOY. In your investigation of the President's assassination, did you have occasion, after the event, to make an investigation of Ruby's background or Ruby's relationship to Oswald?Mr. BELMONT. Yes, sir; we went into that very thoroughly.Mr. MCCLOY. Have we got all your reports on that?Mr. BELMONT. Yes, sir.Mr. MCCLOY. Have you come to any conclusions or opinions in regard to Ruby and his connection with Oswald, if any?Mr. BELMONT. The reports, of course, speak for themselves. But in summa- tion, we did not come up with anything of a solid nature, that is anything that would stand up to indicate that there was any association between Ruby and Oswald. We had numerous allegations which we ran out extensively and care- fully, but there is nothing, no information, that would stand up to show there was an association between them.Mr. MCCLOY. Maybe this is in the record, but do you by reason of your very close association with this investigation, I venture to ask this question—do you, from your knowledge of the investigation find was there any evidence in27