Mr. THORNLEY. Yes; it was practically--well, it was finished by that time but I was thinking about, I was definitely planning to rewrite it. I didn't know how soon, and I thought before I did rewrite it I would go talk to him and see what he could tell me about. There were a lot of gaps in the book, and in the book I was not able to explain how he got from the United States to Russia and things like that. A lot of things I wanted to check out and I thought if I could get him to cooperate with me, perhaps not even in telling him I was writing the book, I could get the information I wanted. Mr. JENNER. And this was the state of mind you had after you had heard that he returned to the United States? Mr. THORNLEY. Right. Mr. JENNER. Which was June of 1962, when he returned? Mr. THORNLEY. Right, and I had finished the book in February. Mr. JENNER. Of 1963? Mr. THORNLEY. 1962. Mr. JENNER. 1962. You were in Mexico and Mexico City in 1963? Mr. THORNLEY. Yes. Mr. JENNER. Cover that for us. What was the motivation, the length of the trip? Mr. THORNLEY. I will have to begin at the beginning on that. On April 17, my parents sent me a gift of $100 on the condition that I spend it for a bus ticket to visit them that summer. Which I did, and I left around--well, I arrived in California on May 5. I remember going along the border and seeing fireworks on the other side of the border. Mr. JENNER. What border? Mr. THORNLEY. From Yuma to San Diego. Mr. JENNER. Mexican border? Mr. THORNLEY. That is Cinco De Mayo. I arrived in California on May 5 and I stayed there until late August. Now, I think in one of these reports that I gave to the FBI the information might be different. Since then I have checked with notebooks that I kept of my activity, and I was on my way back to New Orleans in late August. I went by way of Mexico City because I have taken 5 years of Spanish in school and I never had the opportunity to live in an environment where I would have to use it, depend on it solely, and I wanted to see how I would do. I have always wanted to visit Mexico, to see Mexico City. I checked into the prices. I had found out I had enough money that I would be able to go down to Mexico City and stay a short while. So I went down there for about a week, actually it was 6 days I spent within Mexico, from Tijuana to Mexico City, on a Mexican bus, and then when my money began to run out from Mexico City to Matamoros or Brownsville, Tex., on a Mexican bus. At this time, on my way up on a bus to Matamoros, it was September 2, because I had that in my notes, I have some notes about the bus ride and the date September 2. And I went from Brownsville to New Orleans by way of either Greyhound or Continental. Mr. JENNER. When did you arrive in New Orleans? Mr. THORNLEY. I went directly to New Orleans, so I imagine I arrived in New Orleans on September 3, possibly September 4. Mr. JENNER. So that between approximately May 1, 1963, and September 4 and 5----