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# SECRETpromises of over a year. Before he could meet the Ambassador, Dimitroff was betrayed at his safe house in Sofia by the landlady for one million leva, and vas arrested by the Bulgarian secret police. He was tortured by electricity, physical means, water, devices, and starvation. During this time he was regularly questioned by a Soviet Commissar bub told nothing because he knew he was to die and had to create an example. Finally sentenced to death by hanging, he waited daily for nine months for it to be carried out. Later he learned he had not been executed because the authorities wanted him to testify at the trial of Nikola Petkov that Petkov had supported Dimitroff's movement.8. In 1947 ha vas vorking in a labor gang and was rescued by the underground, which sent him to the house of the US Ambassador. Arrangements vere made through Us personnel, over a period of two weeks, to send Dimitroff to Greece. He vas warned not to use his name "Diko" but did use his regular name. The Commnists offered a million leve reward for his death or capture in brochures with his picture.9. In Greece, UK military personnel recognized him from the photographs and took him from a Greek hospital. UK General Scott met and offered him complete support and a radio station at Salonika to renew underground activities. Seott vas very anti-is and for that reason Dimitroff refused the offer. The following day all uniforms and gifts given hin by UK personnel were removed and he vas turned back to the Greeks, who employed him in a radio station in Athens broadcasting against Bulgarian Commmists.10. During 1948, Communist agants were sent to Athens to kill him. For this reason he went to Italy at the suggestion of the Greek Government. In 1949 while at Bari, a Mr. Clark from the US Embassy in Greece, who knew him as "Diko", asked Dimitroff to return to Greece and to renew the fight with his underground if it could be revived. At its peak it had consisted of 250 secret posts and ten thousand active members. They returned together to Athens and set up an open Liberation Committee with Dimitroff as president. The organisation trained Bulgarians in Frankfurt and near Athens. Many of these were later parachuted into Bulgaria starting in 1949. His operations were purely military and did not involve espionags. Another US service in Greece, primarily interested in espionage, was headed by a Mr. Eving (sie) or Ubing (sis) for which all types of Bulgarians were working for money. When Dimitroff's men attempted to cross the Bulgarian frontier they were sometimes ambushed by Ewing's people or were betrayed to the Bulgarian Commamiats. To check personally he went on an inspection of the frontier with a US Army representative, a Mr. George. They talked to his people who had been foreed back and George realized that Eving was collaborating with the Commmista. George reported this to Clark who returned to Washington with the story and never came back to Greece.11. Clark was replaced by a ltr. Allen, of German origin, Russian speaking, Moscow educated, and a Comamist. At their first meeting, Allen tald Dimitroff to take it easy, that there was plenty of time to fight the Communists. Thereafter it was apparent that Ewing vas 19 learning all of Dimitroff's plans, schedules, and seerets through Allen, and Ewing's people began openly to deride Dimitroff. This killed theSECRET