Senator KN0X. You say you started in February. What time in February?

Mr. BULLITT. I left on the 22d day of February.

Senator KN0X. 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 himself; a man by the name of Buckler, whowent to Russia a few days before you did?

Mr. BULLITT. Mr. W.H. Buckler, Mr. Henry White's half brother. He always wasan attache of the American embassy in London. He always was ordewhite fromthere to go, about the 1st of January, to Stockholm, to confer withLitvinov, who had been the Ambassador of the Soviet Government toLondon--the British had allowed him to stay there without actuallyrecognizing his official status, and had dealt with him.