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![handle is hein.jfk/jfkarch71480 and id is 1 raw text is: 104-10096-10218 2022 RELEASE UNDER THE PRESIDENT JOHN F. KENNEDY ASSASSINATION RECORDS ACT OF 1992
Office Memorandum * UNITED STATES GOVERNMENT
TO : File DATE: 25 January 1952t
FROM : Morse Allen RETURNTO 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 21r. richetq -
EE/OPC, concerning the instant case. -
r richetD eaplaind in substance the Kelly case as follows:
Kelly, (whose real name is Diitrov), is a 29-year-old Bulgarian and
was the head of a small political party based in Greece and ostensi.vely
working for Bulgarian independence. Kelly was described byEprichetf
as being young, ambitious, bright (elementary college education), a
sort of a man-on-a-horse type but a typical Balkan politician. Ac-
0 cording to PrichettJ, our people discovered that French Intelligence
Service attempting 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 '
ani as a protection, 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 was
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. ilitary
Hospital as a psychopathic patient. Kelly now has been in the U.S.-
mi:Qitary 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.
Pri ett]explaine4 that they can dispose of Kelly by. the. simple
process of 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, becanse 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 us.. This operation, which
will necessarily involve the a of dru gs being- considered by OPC
with a possibility that Dr.E eand kadyc carry out the
operation presumably at the military ospital in .i. Also in-
volved in this would be a Bul arian interpreter who is a consultant
to this Agency since neither Ecks'nor(Gladych~speak Bulgarian.
Mr. Bannerman pointed out to(zricetithat this type of operation
could only be carried out with the authorization 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](ViewImageLocal?handle=hein.jfk/jfkarch71480&div=1&collection=&method=preview&ext=.png&size=3)