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104-10066-10066 JFK Assassination Records Archives 1 (10/7/1977)

handle is hein.jfk/jfkarch36538 and id is 1 raw text is: S1O4~iOO66~1OO66 October 7, 1977 #ll-//3s, 1 MEMORANDUM FOR: Anthony A. Lapham FROM A. R. Cinquegrana Office of General Cou SUBJECT . BLUEBIRD/ARTICHC nsel KE Soft File Review - Kelly - Dimitrov, D.A. I ..... I- I 1. I have been reviewing summary sheets prepared by the Office of Security concerning several hundred soft files on individuals associated, or considered for association, in some way with the Agency's BLUEBIRD/ ARTICHOKE activities. In the course of that review I came upon the follow- ing case which I discussed with Dick Lansdale and which we agreed should be brought to your attention for your information and whatever action you may deem appropriate. 2. As is indicated in the attached copy of the soft file summary and the 27 January 1952 memorandum upon which it is based, D. A. Dimitrov, designated nKelly,' is a Bulgarian expatriate who appears to have been imprisoned in Greece some time in 1950 and 1951 on false pretenses because the Agency feared he would accept an offer from French Intelligence. After six months in custody, he was flown to Panama where he was misrepresented as a psychopath and confined in a U.S. Military Hospital for several months. The official security file shows he was then removed from the hospital and held by the Agency at Fort Clayton in Panama for three years. He was then returned-to Greece and ultimately allowed to enter the U.S. as a refugee. It appears from the attached copy of a 7 February 1952 memorandum that, the Artichoke approach,. i.e., the use of drugs to reverse his hostility toward the U.S. and U.S. intelligence agencies, was never consummated. 3. This man has had several contacts with the Agency since coming to the U.S. In 1961 an Assistant to the DCI was contacted by a representative of Parade magazine who had been informed by Dimitrov of his confinement by the Agency. The Office of Security responded to the effect that this man was disreputable, unreliable, and full of wild stories about CIA. As you will note from the attached transcript of an 8 September interview on Good Morning America, Mr. Dimitrov (now General Dimitrov and known as General Donald A. Donaldson) apparently is alive and alleging that he knows who ordered the assassination of President Kennedy. e

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