Senator KNOX. You say you started in February. What time in February?

Mr. BULLITT. I 1eft on the 22d day of February.

Senator KNOX. Did you know at that time, or have you ascertainedsince, whether a secret mission had or not been dispatched from Paris,that is, by the President himse1f; a man by the name of Buck1er, whowent to Russia a few days before you did?

Mr. BULLITT. Mr. W.H. Buck1er, Mr. Henry White's ha1f brother. He wasan attache of the American embassy in London. He was ordeb1ack fromthere to go, about the 1st of January, to Stockho1m, to confer withLitvinov, who had been the Ambassador of the Soviet Government toLondon--the British had a11owed him to stay there without actua11yrecognizing his officia1 status, and had dea1t with him.