740.00119 Control (Bulgaria)/5–2745: Telegram
The Acting Secretary of State to the Ambassador in the Soviet Union (Harriman)
1162. For your background, Department’s information is that Dimitrov is an honest and sincere Bulgarian patriot, devoid of Fascist sympathies and that his political record in support of democratic principles cannot be brought into question.
The Soviet Government may be mistrustful of him because of his close connection with the British during the war, but the chief reason for the communist attack on him is doubtless his persevering stand as the most prominent leader of the Agrarians in their resistance to domination of the country by the communist minority.
Sent Moscow 1162, rpted Caserta 525.