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    "ocrText": "DECLASSIFIED\nE.O. 11652, Sec. 3(E) and 5(D) or (E)\nTOP SECRET\nDept. of State letter, Aug. 10, 1972\n-2-\nBYNLT-NC NARS Date 6.26.75\nstrong stand on Venesia Giulia. But if all we achieve is\na supply line and not our point about foir territorial\nsettlements, the world will once more think that we have\nbeen more interested in high-sounding principles then we\nwere in their actual practice.\nDimitrov Case still Unsolved. General Crane saw General\nBiryusov, the Russion chairman of ACC Bulgaria who is just\nback from Moscow, on May 28 about G. M. Dimitrov. Biryusov\nsaid that he personally believed Dimitrov *a Fascist who\nhad supported the German cause\" and that for Barnes to give\nhim asylum was a \"brutal interference* in Bulgarian internal\naffairs. When Crane said that the US considered the matter\nprimarily one between the US and Bulgarian Governments end\nwould accept en ACC decision \"only if renched on a genuinely\ntripartite basis\", Biryusov said he would treat it as a\nUS-Bulgarian affair until he received instructions from\nMoscow to the contrary but in no case could consider a tri-\npartite ACC decision on it until he received instructions\nthat the three powers on ACC had agreed on \"a new procedure\"\nfor that body.\nBernes states that \"if Biryusov really means that the\nDimitrov case\" is back in US-Bulcarian hands he ahould soon\nbe able to reach a satiafactory solution. He has talked\nto the Bulgarisn Prime Minister and Minister of Wer, who\nmade no such wild statements about Dimitrov B.8 did General\nBiryusov. In fact neither made any objections to Barnes'\nstatement that he should not have taken such a positive\nposition on Dimitrov if he did not know that he had \"the\nwhole of Bulgarian opinion that had not been warped by\nCommunist ideology behind him\".\nThe Department's information is that Dimitrov is en\nhonest and sincere Bulgerian patriot devoid of Fascist\nsympathies. Hie political record in support of democratic\nprinciples ennnot be questioned, The chief reason for the\nCommunist ettack on it is doubtless his persevering stand\nas the most prominent lender of Bulgaria's Agrarimn Party\nin its\nARCHIVES LINATIONAL SERVICE AND\nRECORDS"
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