Miss Stone Affair

The Miss Stone Affair (Bulgarian: Афера „Мис Стоун“, Macedonian: „Афера Мис Стон“) was the kidnapping of American Protestant missionary Ellen Maria Stone and her pregnant Bulgarian fellow missionary and friend Katerina Cilka[1][2] by the pro-Bulgarian Internal Macedonian Revolutionary Organization.

At the meeting, Gotse Delchev argued that small robberies only tarnished the reputation of the organization and were not helpful to solving the financial problem.

Yane Sandanski then offered to kidnap Ferdinand of Bulgaria during his visit to the Rila Monastery, but this radical plan was opposed by Delchev, who believed that the abduction must be done on Ottoman territory.

Sandanski, Hristo Chernopeev and Sava Mihaylov [be] prepared a plan for the kidnapping of Süleyman Bey, but due to his illness this action also failed.

[6][7][8] Sometimes regarded as a case of the Stockholm syndrome[citation needed] (with the kidnappers even assisting Cilka in giving birth to her daughter), the affair ended after intensive negotiations in early 1902, half a year after the kidnapping.