P. Dorion, M.D.

16/11/71 Progress Notes: A telephone call made by Madame Louis Dionne, who has known the Delev family well since their arrival in Canada, informed us that the case of Mr. and Mrs. Delev has been brought to the attention of the Yugoslavian Embassy in Ottawa and to the Yugoslavian and Canadian Immigration Services. Mr. Delev's brother is apparently about to come to Canada because of this case. On the other hand, she informed us that she had no reason to believe that Mrs. Risto Delev had questionable attitudes regarding other men and that, furthermore, Mr. Delev had kept a close watch on his wife for three days recently, in Quebec City. She felt distressed when I told her that Mr. Delev would spend an indeterminate period of time in hospital. She told me that this was a very serious case and that he had threatened to kill his wife, who spent three days with her children at the home of Dr. Dionne.

On the other hand, Dr. Dionne, once contacted by telephone, said he was very surprised and found the proceedings strange, the fact that his wife had been called and asked to cooperate in providing information. He said that his wife was in a panic after the telephone call and, having relied on his wife, he was doubtful of our proceedings, from a surgical standpoint. I explained that we wanted only their cooperation and that they weren't obliged to give it to us. After a few clarifications, Dr. Dionne confirmed that Mr. Delev's brother was coming to Canada. I also learned from Dr. Louis Roy that Dr. Dionne had been threatened by Mr. Delev.

Dr. Philip Juretic, a Yugoslavian psychiatrist at the St.-Jean-de-Dieu Hospital in Montreal, phoned me and expressed his surprise that his friend and compatriot, Dr. Delev, was hospitalized at St.-Michel-Archange. According to him, he doubted very much the fact that Dr. Delev was psychotic, but said he was unaware of the marital problems the couple were having. He thought that it was most likely "a tempest in a teapot", regarding deportation, he said that would be scandalous if we were to start taking action in such a direction against the couple's will, because of the political problems Dr. Delev had had in his own country.