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104-10096-10218 JFK Assassination Records Archives 1 (1/25/1952)

handle is hein.jfk/jfkarch37784 and id is 1 raw text is: 104-10096-10218 Office Merorandn* UNITED STATES GOVERNMENT To File DATE: 25 January 1952 FROM Horse Allen RETURNTD CIA Background Use Only SUBJECT: Kelly.Case Do Not Reproduce On Friday, 25 January 1952, the writer was called to the office of Mr. Bannerman for the purpose of a conference, with one Mr. EE/OPC, concerning the instant case. 03 explai in substance the Kelly case as follows: Kel, al name is Dimitrov), is a 29-year-old Bulgarian and was the head of a small political party based in Greece and tensival working for Bulgarian independence. Kelly was described b_ as being young, ambitious, bright (elementary college education sort of a lman.n.an-*horse type but a typical Balkan politician. . Ac- cording our people discovered that -French Intelligence Service atem to bribe Kelly and make him a double agent and Kelly was looking with favor upon the French offers. Accordingly) a. plot was rigged in which Kelly was told he was going to be a and as a norotection, he was placed in custody of -the Greek Police who threw kelly into a Greek prison. Kelly was held in the Greek pri- son for six months until the Greek authorities decided that Kelly as a nuisance and they told our people to take him back. Since our people were unable to dispose of Kelly in Greece, they flew him to Panama where, through arrangement, he was placed, in a U.S. Military Hospital as a psychopathic patient. Kelly nov has been in the U.S.. mi.1tary hospital for several months and the hospital authorities now want to get him out since he is causing considerable trouble, bothering other patients, .etc. Kelly is not a psychopathic personality. explained that they can dispose of Kelly by the. Si le process or sending him to a friend of his in Caracas, Venezuela, and as far as they are concerned, that type of disposal is perfectly o.k. However, becase of .his confinement in a Greek prison and his stay in a military hospital, Kelly has become very hostile toward the United States and our. intelligence operations in particular. Hence, OPC is -considering an Artichoke approach to Kelly to see if it would be possible to .re-orient Kelly favorably toward is. This operation, which will necessarily involve the g-se of dr*es-is be -considered by OPC with a possibility that Dr carry out the operation presumably at the milita noop anamae. Also in- volved in this would be a interpreter who is a consultant to this Agency since nei:ther speak Bulgarian. Mr. Bannerman pointed out to hat this type of operation could only be carried out with the au o ziation of $ecurity and that, under no circumstances whatsoever, could anyone but an authorized M.D. administer drugs to any subject of this Agency of any type. Bannerman pointed out that there was a strong possibility that the military

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