Toward the end of July 1924, Boris Savinkov, the well-known SR terrorist who, during and after the Civil War, was active in anti-Bolshevik politics in Paris and in Poland, called on Vladimir Burtsev in Paris to announce his decision to leave for Russia. He told Burtsev that he had received letters from his underground agents inside Russia, urging him to return at once to assume command. He said: "I must go. . . . I am going to Russia to die in the struggle with the Bolsheviks. I know that if I am arrested I shall be shot, but I shall show those who remain abroad how one should die for Russia. By my trial and death I shall protest against the Bolsheviks." (V. Burtsev, The Slavic Review, vol. VI, no. 16, p. 265). Apparently the letters he received from Russia were inspired or dictated by the GPU. On August 20, 1924, Savinkov crossed from Poland into Soviet territory, where he was promptly arrested when his train reached Minsk. A day later, he made a written deposition in which he confessed his errors and admitted that the Bolsheviks had popular support in Russia. At his short public trial before the Military Collegium of the Supreme Court of the USSR (August 27-29, 1924), he pleaded guilty to most charges and made a statement addressed to V. Burtsev, urging him to abandon the struggle against the Bolsheviks. The sentence was amazingly mild; the death penalty was commuted to ten years in prison. (For the text of Savinkov's depositions and the sentence, see Protsess Borisa Savinkova, Berlin, Russkoe Ekho, 1924.) In his reminiscences of the NEP, to be published in Russian by the Hoover Institution, N. V. Valentinov-Volsky (1878-1964) presents a letter by Boris Savinkov addressed to Felix Dzerzhinsky, head of the GPU and simultaneously of the Supreme Council of National Economy. The letter has some historical and psychological interest. Valentinov-Volsky writes that when he was working for the Supreme Council of National Economy he heard Dzerzhinsky remark in April 1925 to one of his colleagues that he was quite willing to employ Savinkov as a minor accountant. Allegedly, he said: "He [Savinkov] told me that he wants to work, so long as he does not have to remain in prison and can be useful. I'll give him work. Let us