e ae (404-10096-10218 e . . PORN NO. OS ; TO - FROM SUBJECT: aN | , other patients, “ & é Office Memo ranaume © UNITED § TATES GOVERNMENT pate: 25 January 1952 File Horse All . RETURNTO CIA eee _ . Background Use Only . Kelly Casa Do Not Reproduce On Friday, 25 Jamary 1952, the writer was called to the office of Mr. Bannerman for the purposa of a conference with one Mr. EE/OPC, concerning the instant case. os — 0? Me explained in substance the Kelly case as follows: Kelly, (whose real name is Dimitrov), is a 29-year-old Bulgarian and ‘was the head of a small political party based in Greece and ostansivaly. ‘ working for Bulgarian independance. Kelly was deseribed b as being young, ambitious, bright (elementary collsgs educa ion), a sort of a & horse" typs but a typical Balkan politician. . Ac- cording oe people discovered that French Intelligences Service "attempting to bribe Kelly and make him a double agent and Kelly was looking with favor upon the French offers. Accordingly, aw. gta J bec plot was rigged in which Kelly was told he was going to be Senet . and a3 a "protection", he was placed in custody of the Greek Police -, $on for six months until the Greek authorities decided . & nuisance and they told our people to take him back. However, because of his confinement in a Greek -considering an "Artichoke" approach to Kelly ‘under no circumstances whatseever, could anyone but an authorized M.D. who threw Kelly into a Greek prison. Kelly was held in the Cree pri- that Kelly waa . Since our people were unable to dispose of Kelly in Greece, they flew him to Panama where, through arrangement, ha was placed. in a U.S. Military Hospital as a psychopathic patient. Kelly now has been in the U.S. mjlitary hospital for several montis and the hospital authorities now want to get him ont since he is causing considerable trouble, bothering =~ ete. Kelly is not a psychopathic personality. ; wo | explained that they can dispose of Kelly by. the. simple proctsss 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. prison and his stay in — a military hospital, Kelly has become vary hostile toward the United States and our intelligence operations in particular. Hence, OPC ig. : to see If it would be. possible to re-orlent Kelly favorably toward tis. This operation, which will necessarily involve the use of drugs. ing considered by OPC ~ with a possibllity that Dr carry out the operation presumably at a ae Also in- volved in this would be a intarpreter who is a consultant _ xn | speak Bulgarian...“ os . . Ss *, ss . to this Agency since neithe ' Mr. Bannerman pointed ont tol eth this type of operation could only be carried out with the authorization of Gecurity and that, administer drags to any subject of this Agency of any typs. Bannerman pointed out that there was a strong possibility that the military
14-00000 @> ft ~ : - wane . tois authorities would not permit their hospital xo be used for/type of work and also that 4 re-conditioning operation of this type mizht take as. Zong as 30-60! Bannerman further pointed cat that recr if cust an operation were carried on, Security would have to be cognisant af it, would have to be co-ordinated into the ozgantsetien and would possibly . take over.and ron the operation themselves since this type of wor’: . is one ZA which Security handles “j~~ bP Attar * _ -:it was agreed between] Bannerman,-and ths writer that a conference would be laid on Monday afternoon when OPC representatives fan interpreter return from Boston and their talle with At which time, the angles would be explored and a dis~ patch siccege would be forwarded to our people in Panama directing. them to find out whether the Army would permit such an operation ard whether ~ _.the Army would allow tha Agency to have the use of the necessary rocma, medical facilities, etd. as would be required for this type of operation. At this time, eit was also to ba determined whether the disposal. of Kelly Cr Venssuela could in fact be laid on. ~ oS a oS This particular’ Speration was mentioned in genéral terms to the writer by Mr approximately: thirty days ago on an in- ’ formal. basis at no significant details were given at this time. While the technique that anc are considering for use ‘in this casa is not known to the writer, the writer beliaves the appreach will be made through the standard narco-hypnosis techniqua. Re-canditioning ' and re-orienting an individual in such a matter, in the opinion of ‘ths writer, cannot be accomplished easily and will require a great deal of ' time and the & fact that an interpreter is necessary in the case coa-" - . plicates it considerably more. It is also believed that with our present kx . ' knowledge, we would have no absolute guarantee that the subject in this case would maintain a positive friendly attitude toward us even though — there is apparen a successful responses to the treatment. The writer did not suggest. 1 that. perhaps a total.amnesia could be created | i by a series of electro shocks, but merely indicated that amnesia under ~ _ @rugz treatments were not certain. — a MORSE ALLEN nee