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14. Shortly thereafter Dimitroff was kicked out of the hospital without any of his belongings, having been told that they were taking him to Venezuela. Actually he was taken to Colon to an old abandoned coast artillery building. He was threatened not to try to escape and was left with five US civilian guards. When he became ill a doctor arrived and gave him shots. For the next three years he was kept there. During this period a series of US personnel arrived from Washington to see him. Finally he threatened to walk out and they could shoot him if they wished. At this, he was told he would be taken to Mexico but at the airport there was only an ambulance. He was tied and gagged in the Communist fashion and taken back by the ambulance to the same artillery area but placed in an old shell magazine under guard. He never had enough air although he was kept in the hole for seven months. The US guards told him that they would kill him when the time came. Finally he had serious pains in his chest and a doctor from Washington was brought in who diagnosed that he would die within twenty-four hours if not removed. He was returned to his old building for three or four months.15. After President Eisenhower's election there was obviously panic among the guards and fewer were assigned. One day he found that there were no longer any about but he was afraid to pass yellow blazes on the trees beyond which they would shoot him down. Finally three new US individuals arrived and asked him whether he was alright. They stated that they were from Vice President Nixon's office and had come there to save him. They further stated that the Vice President had taken charge of his office in the White House when he took it over and had immediately sent the three to help him. They offered him a life pension and a villa in Virginia but Dimitroff was still afraid of tempting offers and preferred to be returned to Greece. The individuals brought him a suitcase of clothes and took him to a hotel in Cristobal. They reported to Vice President Nixon who ordered them to do anything Nixon wanted.16. They returned him in the Spring of 1954 to the Greek authorities in Athens. He met a new US group who became very friendly with him and to whom he told much of his story. These included Nafiver of the United Nations, Debrich (sic) US Cultural Attache and some USIA officials. They assured him that he could go to the US as a free man without danger. He arrived in New York in November 1956 with the intention of writing his story in an Anti-Communist book. At first he worked as a janitor in Newark, New Jersey. At this time he met the Greek Ambassador who sent him to Spyros Skouras. Skouras refused to help, saying that Communists had never hurt him and he did not wish to be involved. Dimitroff also met, in New York City, James T. Martin, a US Immigration official who had assisted his departure from Greece. Martin suggested that he write President Eisenhower for support, which he did. The letter was referred to the State Department and USIA being ultimately answered by Turner B. Shelton of USIA. Dimitroff met Shelton in Washington to discuss the possibility of support in filming his story but Shelton obviously thought Dimitroff imbalanced by suggesting that he would be script writer, producer, and director.