29 Boyle to EPD, 8/2/1952
30 George Papandreou letter, 10/25/52; Panayiotis Kanellopoulos letter, 10/22/1952
31 Boyle to EPD, 11/21/1952
32 11/30/1952 reception at Grande Bretagne Hotel, CIA report, SECRET 12/1952; CIA deputy director for plans to FBI, State Dept. Security, INS commissioner, White House Situation Room 2, 10/19/1967
33 CW letter to EPD, 1/16/1954
34 WP, 3/18/1954
35 Final Decree, Florida Office of Vital Statistics, Chan. 34, 305, 16203, 11/5/1955
36 “Life ‘Too Fast’ for Greek Hubby,” Palm Beach Post, 7/19/1955
8: PERSONA NON GRATA
1 Stern, 13
2 Dulles, known as a “pathological womanizer” (Moran) and “skilled seducer” (Kinzer) reportedly began his relationship with Queen Frederica aboard one of Niarchos’s yachts and continued at least through a famous episode in a private dressing room next to his CIA office. Grose, 451
3 Kathimerini, 11/6/1951; memorandum from Edward S. Berry to William C. Truehart, Special Assistant Intelligence, State Dept. (cc: Assistant Director for Special Operations CIA) 12/6/1951; King and Queen had their state visit 10/28/1953–12/3/1953
4 FRUS “Secret” 4367, SecState to AmEmb, 5/17/1951
5 Embassy memorandum [names redacted], 8/3/1951
6 Robert de T. Lawrence to Commander in Chief US Air Forces Europe, 3/18/1958
7 CIA “Notes on Soviet Activities in Greece during July 1955,” 8/22/1955
8 Athens, December 1954
9 Col. David Fowler, CINFO memorandum/74482, 5/25/1954
10 Demetracopoulos questions submitted 4/1/1954; negative response (undated), RMNL
11 CIA memorandum [redacted] to director, 2/26/1954; the British were often more helpful to EPD. E. J. C. Hare in the British Embassy in Athens asked London to give him assistance in obtaining interviews there because he is a “very good friend of the Department and a well-known Athens journalist.” Ref. Inf: 1674/20/1956
12 J. E. Miller, 44
13 The Tripartite Conference on the Eastern Mediterranean and Cyprus held by the Governments of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, Greece, and Turkey, London, August 29–September 7, 1955, with relevant documents, FO
14 Olson to Medville E. Nordense, Chief Public Affairs Officer, USIS, Rome, 5/2/1955
15 6/13/1955
16 CIA, Deputy Director Plans to Secretary of State, Army and Navy, 4/19/1954; also 12/3/1954
17 Confidential memorandum, 12/3/1954.
18 Hatzivassilou, 68
19 Abadi, “Constraints and Adjustments in Greece’s Policy,” 45 (www.scribd.com/doc/23018215/Greece-Israel); Sakkas, “Greece and the Mass Exodus of the Egyptian Greeks,” 101–15; Konstantina Botsiou, “Who is afraid of the Americans?,” 20–22, https://ecpr.eu/Filestore/PaperProposal/56c182eb-9ec2-4516-92bc-10d98f6187e6.pdf; paper included in Brendan O’Connor (ed.), Anti-Americanism, Chapter 10
20 Kathimerini, 9/22/1955
21 State Dept. memorandum, 1/21/1958
22 At least four books have revisited in depth the case of Polk’s murder, detailing the miscarriage of justice and how respected journalists allowed themselves to be used in a two-government whitewash of the so-called independent investigation of the murder. Elias Vlanton provided the most recent comprehensive review in English and Anthanasios Kafiris in Greek.
23 MacPherson, 280–1; Sperber, 312–14; Steel, 487; Like Polk, EPD never became a journalistic “insider.” Vlanton, 191
9: ELIAS AND ETHNARCH MAKARIOS
1 “To whom it may concern” letter (undated)
2 Hersh (Price), 137
3 Ray L. Thurston to Walworth Barbour, 6/22/1956
4 Kathimerini, 11/29/1956; AmEmb dispatch, 12/5/1956
5 Heurtley, 170; Woodhouse (Modern Greece), 276
6 Mario Modiano, interview, 5/31/2012
7 Reuters, Glasgow Herald, 4/8/1957; AP, Lewiston Evening Journal, 4/6/1957
