Francesco/who-killed-jfk huggingface dataset:
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# SECRET20 JAN 1964TO:Deputy Assistant Secretary for Security Department of State.FROM:Deputy Director for PlansSUBJECT: DINTROFF, Dimiter Adamoff /Aka: DIMITROV, Dimitur Adamov/1.  Reference is made to the request received 15 January 1964 from Mr. Jessup concerning Subject. The files of this office contain the following information.2.  Subject of your request is Dimitur Adimow DIMITROV, born 7 May 1924 in Medkovets, Bulgaria. He escaped to Greece in 1947 and participated actively in anti-Commmist activities among Bulgarian refugees there. He was described as being dictatorial and egotistical to the point of having delusions of grandeur. Subject felt that he could cause the downfall of the Communist government of Bulgaria and would become prime minister of the country thereafter. By September 1951, his behavior had become so peculiar that he was detained for mental observation and treatment. In February 1954, Subject was considered well enough to be returned to normal refugee channels in Greece and was transferred to the Syros refugee detention camp to await disposition.3.  Subject immigrated to the United States in 1956. Since that time he has written numerous letters to the White House and government agencies proposing rather far-fetched anti-Communist schemes in which he inevitably proposes himself for the leading role. Whereas Subject is not regarded as insane and is not known to be disposed to violence, the above letters do indicate that he is something of a "crackpot" on the subject of anti-Communism. It is conceivable that he does harbor some bitterness toward Greece as a result of his detention mentioned above.CSCI-3/779,614EC: Federal Bureau of Investigation.RID/CE: JMA/MC/dclBased on: 201-45145*EE/BRCS COFILE IN 201-45145SECRETEnd
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# SECRETCONTROLU.S. OFFICIALS ONLYCENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCYWASHINGTON 25, D. C.DEC 141950MEMORANDUM FOR: THE ASSISTANT DIRECTOR FOR POLICY COORDINATIONSUBJECT: Activities of Dimiter Adomov Dimitrov in Greece1. The following information concerning the activities of Subject in Greece was recently received from the field. It is brought to your attention for your information, and for such comments as you may be able to make.2. According to a fairly reliable informant, Subject, allegedly acting on instructions from members of the American Embassy at Athens, has lately become very active among Bulgarian refugees in Greece. Early in October 1950, Subject visited the Lavrion Camp where he met with a number of his Bulgarian friends and advised them that he had been given a "charter and instruc- tions," by certain members of the American Embassy, to form a committee of five members for the planning and execution of a fight for the liberation of Bulgaria. This committee, according to Subject, would be established in Athens and would cooperate with other similar committees which have already been formed in France, Germany and other countries. The committee would later expand to 20 members and would establish a so-called "Democratic Agrarian Bloc."3. Subject is further reported to have stated that recruits would come from among the members and sympathizers of the Bulgarian Democratic Party (Moushynov) and from the Gichev Agrarians. The members of the Leftist Agrarian Party (G.M. Dimitrov or "Pladne" group) and right-wing elements would be excluded. Eligible Bulgarian emigres would come to Greece from Western Europe to assist in the work, and prominent members of the Gichev Agrarians and of the Democratic Party would be assisted in escap ing to Greece (presumably from Bulgaria) to join the organization.4. Subject outlined the tasks of the organization as follows:a. Intelligence activity in Bulgaria,b. Organizing an underground resistance movement in Bulgaria, andSECRETCONTROLU.S. OFFICIALS ONLY.201-45145
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c. Organizing sabotage activity against Bulgaria.5. Subject also revealed that the members of the committee at present were: himself as president; Ivan Mitev Hristonov, secretary; Ivan Donev Ivanov; Dimiter Donev Ivanov; and a fifth member whose name was not supplied by source.6. In addressing the group at Lavrion, Subject took frequent occasion to mention that the committee has its headquarters in the American Embassy where he has a room assigned for his own use. He also stated that the committee maintains offices at 13 Patission Street, 7th Floor, rooms 2-4, and he stated that eight Bulgarian-speaking Americans are already working at this address. Possibly in an effort to impress his listeners, Subject commented that his office had two Bulgarian typewriters and a car with U. S. A. license plates.7. Following his address to the group at Lavrion, Subject and Ivan Mitev Hristonov, secretary of the so-called committee, prepared a list of prospective members of the organization based on their screening of the refugees at Lavrion on the basis of birthplace, education, military training, and similar factors, the list having been prepared for submission to the American Embassy for approval, according to Subject.8. On 1 November 1950, Subject again visited the Lavrion Camp to inform his recruits that they would shortly be moved to a pleasant home in Athens which the Americans were repainting for the purpose. On the occasion of this visit, the recruits were divided into three groups, as follows:a. A group of 10 men to specialize in intelligence,b. A group of 6 men to be trained in radio in Germany,andc. A group of 15 men to specialize in sabotage.9. On or about 10 November 1950, the following six members of Group "A" moved to Athens: Peter Zlatev, Krustyu Kiryanov, Ivan Hristonov, Ivan Gogov, Todor Djadiev, and one whose name is unknown. The others were to follow shortly.10. According to our source, the radio group comprises Ivan Iskrov, Boris Popov, Georgi Nikolov, and others, while the sabotage group includes Serafim Vangelov Kouyoundjiev, Nikola Manev, Todor Nikolov Todorov, Marko Korchev and others.
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13-00000SECRETCONTROL(U.S. OFFICIALS ONLY11. In submitting the above report our source commented that Kouyoundjiev is a dangerous Communist, although he did not cite facts to support this accusation. Our source also described Subject as an unprincipled opportunist and Greek agent. According to our source, Subject had previously worked for the Greeks and was in contact with the British last spring.![signature of Robert A. Schow]ROBERT A. SCHOWAssistant DirectorSpecial OperationsSO DB-31992- 3 -SECRETCONTROLU.S. OFFICIALS ONLY
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SECRETMEMORANDUM FOR: II/OSSUBJECT: Dimiter Adamov Dimitrov13 November 1950REFERENCE: Request for Operational Clearance for Subject dated 23 October 1950.1. Attached is additional biographic data on Subject, forwarded for your information.Gratian M. YatsevitchChief, EE-IEE-I/CFA/1bcc: Orig & 1 - addressee#3, 4 - EE-I5, 6 - III/RE
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# SECRET## DIMITER ADANOV DIMITROVDimiter Adamov Dimitrov was born on 7 May 1924 in the village of Medkovets, district of Lom, Bulgaria. His father was a farmer. His primary education was completed in Lom. He finished his high school training in 1941-1942 in Sofia, and studied philology for one year at Sofia University (1942-1943).In 1942 he joined a secret branch of the Bulgarian National Agrarian Union. In 1943, he claims to have begun underground activities, due to persecution by "Fascists". On 2 September 1944, he emerged from hiding to begin work with various Agrarian leaders. After the events of 9 September 1944, however, he again went into hiding and began activities aimed against Communists.On 28 October 1944, he allegedly was accused by the government of sabotage because he had agitated against the Russian occupation troops. During the ensuing months, he was arrested several times in Ferdinand, Vratsa, and Lom. When released from prison, he continued his illegal activities. His organizational activities often lead him across the Yugoslav frontier. Allegedly he worked in Vardar Macedonia in order to organize Bulgarian sympathizers for the Agrarian Party cause. In April and May 1945, Dimitrov was in Sofia. At one point he procured an illegal identity card add under the name "Boris Stoikov, a member of the 2nd Belgrade Shock Brigade", he toured southwestern Yugoslavia, "organizing Agrarian posts", and was eventually captured by the Yugoslav authorities and sent back to Bulgaria. During the elections of 18 November 1945 he spoke at secret meetings in Vratsa, urging the people to defeat the Communists..On 16 August 1946, he was captured by the police in Sofia. He claims to have been kept eighteen days without bread and twelve days without water, and to have spent four days on an electric torture machine which caused temporary blindness. From 13 October to 11 November 1946, he was tried in the Vratsa court for having organized subversive groups all over Bulgaria and sentenced on four counts. On 2 June 1947, he was tried and sentenced to death by the Sofia Military Court. On 8 July he escaped from the authorities, and on 23 July 1947 he crossed the Greek frontier.ACTION.He now works for Radio Athens and lives at Hotel New Phaleron, Greece.SECRET
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SIGNAL LENICK RUPTWASH- : CAR1-S FRAN- TE:/ATHE-GGKSTAIR.1. FLAKES HAVE AGREED MY USE OF LYLE O KELLY2. LATTER HAS GIVEN WE NAMES SIX HIS FOLLOWERS3. IN TE READY TO INFILTRATE IMMEDIATELY. FLAKES NOW CLEARING. FIRST TASK ONE TE TO BRING OUT FOR. THINK WE HAVE SOMETHING SOOD HERE. BE ARE ALL SET. REQUEST IMMEDIATE CO AHEAD CN BASIS OUR LOCAL AND FLAKO CLEARANCE TO GET THIS STOFORE COOED DOWN SHOJ ON ROAD.KELLO ALSO CAN SUPPLY TRAINED SABOTEURS, NOT NOW IN FLOKE, EST FOR TRAINING JOES IN STSTEIN, OTHERS FOR OPS. WILL INFORU FURTHER.4. ALSO REQUEST CLEARANCE FOOTE, KELLYS LOCAL LIEUTENANT.5. NOTE KELLY HAD BEEN UNDER CLOSE 24 HOUR PER DAYSURVEILLANCE SINCE 14 OOTOSEA. NOTE SIX SELECTED VEN EXPERIENCED IN ANDERGROUND WE WORKERS.
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SECRET23 October 1950MEMORANDUM FOR: II/OSSUBJECT: Operational Clearance for Dimitri Adamov Dimitrov1.  It is requested that the necessary investigation be initiated for the issuance of an operational clearance for Dimitri Adamov Dimitrov.2.  Subject will be used in psychological and political warfare operations in Greece in connection with project QKSTAIR. Clearance should permit occasional trips to such countries as Italy, France, Germany, Switzerland, and England.3.  All possible efforts should be made to prevent any U. S. government or CIA interest being shown in this man. His usefulness would be severely restricted, if not eliminated, if it should become known in Bulgarian emigre circles that the U. S. government was intending to utilize his services.4.  Because of his background and experience subject can make significant contributions to QKSTAIR operations in Greece. He is needed as soon as possible to participate in operations which are already underway. A provisional clearance is requested for 17 Nov. 1950.5.  All Biographical data available at present is attached.GRATIAN M. YATSEVITCHChief, EE-IAttachments: 3cc: EE-I fileEE-I chronoOPC fileOPC chronoEE-I/MSB/ejSECRET
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# BIOGRAPHICAL DATADELITROV, Dimitri AdamovDimitrov was born in Ferdinand, now Mihailongrad, in 1924. There is little information about his youth but it appears he is fairly woll educated. He was an active Albanian Agrarian at a young age. During the war he worlæd illegally in Greek Macedonia and Vardar, Macedonia to escape authorities. He returned home after the wary soon disillusioned by Communists, went to Sofia for help from Agrarian headquarters. He then made clandestine tour of various Albanian cities and towns urging Agrarians to take positive action against Communists. Finally captured in Sofia, he was given usual treatmont and says life was spared because he was being groomed as witness against Petkaov. Escaped to Greece, where he has remained since, doing occasional propaganda for Creeks ander nom de plume Diko. Subject was strong Coorges M. Dimitrov man but has now veered to Tenev group, and is anti-Dinitrov.
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SECURITY:CONFIDENTIALATHENS 588 October 13, 1950PERIPHERAL: ACTIVITIES OF DIMITER ADAMOV DIMITROV ("DIKO*) OLIBULGARIAN REFUGEE PRESENTLY IN GREECE515834AIR POUCHEnclosures: 10 DST-18015769.00/10-1350.State F26REC 'DOCT 20ACTIONEUR*INFODCRNRALREUR/XPCDimiter Adamov Dimitrov, a young Bulgarian refugee knownas "Diko"; seems to be the most active Bulgarian now in Greece.His youth, energy and capabilities indicate that he might be-come a figure of importance in Bulgarian emigre circles. Thisreport on him is divided into the following sections:1. Biography2. Present activities   a. Employment   b. Publications   c. The "Democratic Bloc"   d. Memorial services for   Nikola Petkov3. Comments201-45145RETAIN OR DESTROY1. BiographyThe following biographic details were supplied by Dimitrovhimself, and cannot be checked in Athens.Dimiter Adamov Dimitrov was born on May 7, 1924, in thevillage of Medkovets, district of Lom, Bulgaria. His fatherwas a farmer. His primary education was completed in Lom. Hefinished his high school training in 1941-1942 in Sofia, andstudied philology for one year at Sofia University (1942-1943).In 1942 Diko joined a secret branch of the BulgarianNational Agrarian Union. In 1943, he claims to have begun un-derground activities, due to persecution by "Fascists." Heclaims to have worked closely with (Dr) G. M. Dimitrov duringthe time. (This claim is partially substantiated by letterswritten to Diko by Dr. G. M. Dimitrov in 1947.)On September 2, 1944, Diko emerged from hiding to beginwork with the Mushanov, Guitchev, Moraviev Agrarians. Afterthe events of September 9, 1944, however, he again went intohiding and began activities aimed against Communists.WAllan:vgIID COPY201-451454042CONFIDENTIAL
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CONFIDENTIALSECURITY:CCENS 588On October 28, 1944, he allegedly was accused by the govern- ment of sabotage because he had agitated against the Russian occupation troops. During the ensuing months he was arrested several times in Ferdinand, Vratsa and Lom. When released from prison, he continued his illegal activities, which seem to have consisted in travelling from village to village, organizing loose-knit groups of Agrarians to withstand Communist pressures.Diko's organisational activities often lead him across the Yugoslav frontier. Allegedly he worked in Vardar Macedonia in order to organize Bulgarian sympathizers for the cause of Dr. G. M. Dimitrov, and upon the advice of a certain General Kitchharov.In April and May, 1945, Diko was in Sofia, in contact with Dr. G. M. Dimitrov, Nikola Petkov and Mara Raicheva. After Diko learned that GeMe had left Bulgaria, he went to Skoplje and asked American and English officers there to help him get to Bari. He did not receive such help.Diko procured an illegal identity card and, as "Boris Stoikov, a member of the 2nd Belgrade Shock Brigade," he toured southwestern Yugoslavia, "organizing Agrarian posts." Eventually, Diko was captured by the Yugoslav authorities.Upon the suggestion of "Gosho, the leader of the partisans of Greek Macedonia," Diko was sent back to Bulgaria. He escaped during this transfer and, although he was ill, he went to Sofia where, he says, he was helped by a number of people, including Peter Belgashki, an American Colonel named "Bekeles," an American Sergeant named "Bucky," General Craig and Mrs. Minnie Balabanova.When he had recovered his health, Diko left Sofia and travelled throughout Bulgaria, organizing "secret posts." Allegedly he organised 250 of these throughout Bulgaria. During the elections of November 18, 1945, he spoke at secret meetings in Vratsa, urging the people to defeat the Communists.On August 16, 1946, he was captured by the police in Sofia. He claims to have been kept eighteen days without bread and twelve days without water, and to have spent four days on an electric torture machine which caused temporary blindness. (His "indescribable tortures" are all described in detail in his book "The Liberation of Bulgaria." See enclosure No. 1.) Diko believes that he was not executed because the Communists wished to hold him as a witness in preparation for the trial of Nikola Petkov.CONFIDENTIAL
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# GCHENS 588SECURITY: CONFIDENTIALFrom October 13 to November 11, 1946, Diko was tried in the Vratsa court for "having organized subversive groups all over Bulgaria." The chief prosecutor was a man named Chernev, the presiding judge was a certain Pencho Spasov. Diko was sentenced on four counts: to death, to 15 years, to 6 years and to 3 years imprisonment. He was jailed and put in solitary confinement.On June 2, 1947, he was tried and sentenced to death by the Sofia Military Court. Also, he states, he was tried and sentenced to death by the court at Lom.In June, 1947, Diko was taken to a quarry in Vratsa where he worked loading rock. On July 8, he escaped from the quarry and went to Mesdra. In Mesdra he contacted the post which he had established there, and received help in travelling further. He went to Zverova and then to Sofia. While in Sofia he asked for and received some help both from the British and from the Americans. He claims that on one occasion he slept in the Sofia house of Jack Horner, of the American Legation. (At this time Mr. Horner was living in his summer home at Simeonovo.) Dike claims also to have stayed with Michael Shipkov.On July 23, 1947 he crossed the Greek frontier south of Zlatograd. He gave himself up the next day at Shahim.British authorities in Sofia had notified the British in Salonika, and they made arrangements for Diko to be admitted to the British hospital in Xanthi. After eighteen days in the hospital there he was transferred to the British hospital in Salonika. After a month and a half in Salonika he was sent to Athens. Greek authorities sent him to the refugee camp at Lavrion. Diko spent nine months in Lavrion then went to Athens, where he obtained employment broadcasting in Bulgarian on Radio Athens. His subsequent activities in Greece are discussed in section 2, below.Diko speaks Bulgarian, Serbian, Russian, some Greek and a very little English.## 2. Activitiesa. Employment. Diko works for Radio Athens. He broadcasts every Sunday evening in Bulgarian. He receives 30,000 drachmae per broadcast. (60,000 if his text is also used in a Greek language broadcast.) Unfortunately, however, it costs him twenty to thirty thousand drachmae to have his text translated into Greek for the benefit of the Greek censor. Additional expenses.
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SECURITY: CONFIDENTIAL CC ATHENS 588such as those for renting a typewriter and local transporta-tion costs, give him a net return from this work of about serodrachmae. In addition to his money pay, however, the GreekGovernment provides him with quarters in a run-down hotel inNew Phaleron and it pays him 2800 drachmae per day subsistence.(Generally, a refugee is not entitled to subsistence money ifhe has any employment whatosever.)Diko also writes articles for various Athens newspapers(see enclosure No. 6) and has received money for them. Otherliterary activities are described in section 2. b., below.A Mr. Humphries, technical adviser of the BBC at RadioAthens, allegedly has offered Diko a job with BBC in London.Diko has refused to accept this offer to date, because of hisprimary interest in organising refugees into a "DemocraticBloc." Should he find it impossible to acquire funds necessaryfor his continued activities in Greece, however, he plans togo to London with BBC.b. Publications. Diko is a prolific author and is atpresent writing an eight part work on Bulgaria to be entitled"Under the Whip of Stalin." The eight parts of the book are:(1) The Liberation of Bulgaria(2) In the Hands of the Militia(3) Justice and Communism(4) Prisons and Camps(5) Agrarians and Communism(6) Workers and Communism(7) Army and Communism(8) Church and CommunismDike has already written parts 1, 5 and 7. Parts 1 and 5have been published in Greece. They are enclosures No. 1 andNo. 2 to this despatch. Part 7 (enclosure No. 3) is being pub-lished by the Greek General Staff and is at the printers at thepresent time. Diko received about 3,000,000 drachmas for eachpart of his book which has been published; he expects to earnabout the same amount for Part 7, and for subsequent parts.Diko states that he has written the books which have beenpublished "for the Greek audience." He realizes that they willnot meet approval in the West, largely because they are tooemotional. Also, he has omitted from the Greek versions ofhis book certain anti-Monarchist sentiments which he did notexpress "for political reasons." Diko has re-written the firsttwo parts of his book "for the American audience" and is veryCONFIDENTIAL
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# 13-00000SECURITY: CONFIDENTIALCHENS 588anxious to have them published in the United States. Enclosures No. 4 and No. 5 are the Greek texts of these revised portions.Diko refers to himself often as "the new Kravchenko - better than Kravchenko." The Peripheral Reporting Unit asked Mrs. Mary Johnston, former Press Attache at the United States Legation in Sofia, to read the Greek text of Diko's books and check on this boast. (Diko's books are available only in Greek at the present time.) Mrs. Johnston stated that "Diko is certainly no worse than Kravchenko.".... Mrs. Johnston believes that Diko is an inte- resting and graphic author and that -- if he could abstain from frequent use of Balkan epithets - his work might merit publica- tion in English. Mrs. Johnston selected a short passage from "Agrarians and Communism" as being typical of his better writing. Enclosure No. 6, "Incident in Vulchedram," is a translation of this passage.c. The "Democratic Bloc." Diko is engaged in trying to organise a "Democratic Bloc." His present efforts are directed almost entirely toward Bulgarian refugees in the camp at Lavrion. Diko was made a member of the "P. D. Petkov" organization which was formed in Lavrion on April 30, 1950. (See CAS report E-3295, September 16, 1950.) He has taken over and expanded the acti- vities of this group, and now considers himself its leader.Diko claims that he has twelve "hard core" members in his group and fifty-four interested supporters. He claims that he will have ninety supporters as soon as he can find the funds to print and distribute his program, and to provide other concrete proofs of his growing strength.Diko appears to be an excellent organizer. He keeps up-to-date lists of all the Bulgarians in the camp at Lavrion. The Bulgarians are listed according to Diko's estimate of their political position. Thus, there is a group called Supporters, there is one called Potential Supporters, there is a group of "hard core" Gemetoists, a list of Nationalists, etc. Diko also files all of his ideas and correspondence and, in general, seems to have a good idea of what he has done and is doing.Diko makes it a point to visit the camp at Lavrion regu larly, and to bring with him cigarettes and food which he dis- tributes among new arrivals. Allegedly, he tells these new arrivals that the presents are given to them because they are Bulgarians, not as a bribe to join his political group. "Ia actual fact, however," Dike admits, "this is a very successful way of getting people to support us." Diko claims that he pays for these little gifts himself; he emphatically denies having received outside help in this matter.CONFIDENTIAL