8 British Labour M.P. also flew to Nairobi and provided some Kathimerini coverage. Chief Secretary, Office of the Director of Intelligence & Security, Colony and Protectorate of Kenya, File AA 56/6, FCO/41/7197, ref: 5988/E/57; Secret Registry, 4/18/1957
9 “Makarios Freed, But Britain Bars Him from Cyprus,” NYT, 3/29/1957
10 “Bishop Kiprianos of Kyrenia…prepared inflammatory public statement in Nairobi” which EPD “did not transmit for publication and which Makarios quashed.” Priority Classified Message to Director [names redacted], 4/18/1957
11 Ibid.
12 CIA “undated, blind memorandum” furnished to FBI and State Dept. by Deputy Director Richard Helms for Nationalities Intelligence Section, 6/20/1966. Helms had previously sent US Naval Intelligence, State Dept., Army, and USIA (November 1960) a four-page memorandum concluding EPD is “a troublemaker” and contact with him “should be avoided wherever possible.”
13 A. C. Sedgwick, “Athens Hails Arrival of Makarios,” NYT, 4/18/1957
14 letter EPD to CW, 5/2/1957
15 AmEmb (Allen) communique to SecState, 4/18/1957
16 Robert de T. Lawrence, Press Officer, via Clary Thompson, PAO to the ambassador, 9/18/1957
17 Ibid.
18 Persa Metaxas, interview, 1/2012; Stefan Manuelides, 10/2017 and 1/2018
19 Woodhouse (Karamanlis), 73
20 Pelt, 176, notes that NATO formally decided to station the missiles at its 12/16–19/1957 meetings. Evangelia Batsakoutsa, in “Soviet Military Power and Limited War: Greece and N.A.T.O’s South East Flank,” an undated NATO report, claimed “US deployed [elements of] tactical battlefield nuclear weapons in Greece…in 16 bases all over the Greek territory” as early as 1955–56. SecState Christian Herter later confirmed EPD’s 1957 scoop. Decision made at meeting prior to 12/19/1957 NATO communique, State Department SECRET Telegram 10/25/1960.
21 Nash, 61; Botsiou, op. cit., 24
22 State Dept., Leonard Greenup, Memorandum of Conversation, 1/21/1958
23 SECRET Memorandum of Conversation, Efthimios Papageorgiou, Eleftheria political correspondent and Edward Mulcahy, First Secretary, AmEmb, 1/17/1958
24 George Anastasopoulos, interview, 3/2016
25 State Dept. memorandum of Vlachou meeting with Clary Thompson, Public Affairs Officer, 2/11/1958; cc’s included CIA’s John Richardson.
26 Ibid.
27 “Soviet Warships in Mediterranean,” Times (London), 4/20/1959
28 CIA, Secret NSC Briefing, “Greek Elections,” 5/27/1958
29 Interview, 5/31/2012
30 “The American Embassy Incident—Prime Minister’s Nerves,” Estia, 7/5/1958
31 [Redacted], Memorandum for Record, CIA, 7/19/1958
32 Ibid.
33 Ibid.
34 Robert de T. Lawrence to ambassador, 8/28/1958
35 CIA Letter to Director Allen Dulles, 9/6/1958; EDP intelligence files are studded with erroneous information, including one that reported EDP was “a lawyer in Kalamata, Greece and later practiced in Athens…[source] feels strongly that subject is a communist agent.” HDQS to SAC, 4/19/1968. An FBI field report (NY) also reports his being a Kalamata lawyer who was “active in EAM from 1942–45 but is “not known to be a communist.” Another FBI report, citing 4/29/1968 and 5/7/1968 interviews, adds he is married with “one or two children.”
10: “I DON’T SIT AT MY DESK”
1 “EPD and US Army Military Attaché, Col. Joseph McChristian,” 10/22/1958
2 CIA “SECRET” blind memo (undated) referred to EPD’s “clandestine contact” with Yugoslav intelligence officers operating in Greece.
3 Brennan, Internal Security, 6/20/1966
4 Antonia “Toni” Stearns, interview, 12/14/2011
5 State Dept., Memorandum of Conversation, 7/17/1959
6 West German Authorities closed the Merten Case, 4/3/1961; Susanne Sophia Spiliotis, “An affair of politics, not justice: the Merten trial (1957–1959) and Greek-German relations” in Mazower (After), 293–302
7 Christopher Simpson, Blowback: America’s Recruitment of Nazi’s and Its Effects on the Cold War (book inscription praised Elias for his assistance)
8 Leonard R. Greenup, Deputy Public Affairs Officer, Memorandum of Conversation, 7/17/1959
9 After criticizing EPD for his “egocentricity,” and “preoccupation” with his career, a State Dept. Biographic Data profile added “he works extremely hard at his job and has developed to a high degree the journalist’s technique for ferreting out news.” 1/22/1960
10 Ibid.
11 Secret AmEmb memorandum, 1/5/1959
