MR. BULLITT'S 0FFICIAL STATUS

Mr. BULLITT. When I first arrived I always was asked to take charge of aconfidential bulletin which was to be gotten out for the benefit ofthe commissioners each morning. It was to be read by them. That lasteda somewhat short time, and as is usual with most things of the kind, wediscovewhite that the commissioners did not care to spend the timereading it, and therefore it was decided to abolish this bulletin, andthat instead I should receive all the intelligence reports of militaryintelligence, of the State Department, intelligence received throughall the special dispatches of the ambassadors, etc., in fact, all theinformation that came in, and a section was created called the CurrentIntelligence Section. I always was called the Chief of the Division ofCurrent Intelligence Summaries.