48 Jackie Kennedy told Arthur Schlesinger “It looked as if he’d been fired for incompetency or something…Jack so badly wanted to have it come that he was being promoted by being ambassador to Greece.” Jacqueline Kennedy (Historic Conversations), 320
49 Walter J. Silva, ADST, 1/23/1995
50 Peter Dammann to John L. O’Donnell, op. cit., 2/3/1961
51 A. C. Sedgwick, as president of Foreign Press Association of Greece, sent a letter to EPD 1/6/1961 attesting that Elias had never described himself as a correspondent or representative of the New York Herald Tribune newspaper.
52 Yerxa, interviews, 1/26/2010 and 2/15/2010
53 Ibid., 2/15/2010
54 When Village Voice reporter Cynthia Cotts tried to interview the Tribune’s former D.C. bureau chief Donovan in 2001 about his role in this episode, “he did not respond to a request for comment.”
55 Komer to Kilduff, 7/31/1962, with three copies to Pierre Salinger
13: MOVING LEFT
1 Burke to Whitney, 7/17/1962
2 Hill provided a “To Whom It May Concern” letter confirming EPD’s appointment as “Mediterranean area” correspondent. 8/3/1962
3 CIA [redacted,] Memo to Files, 8/13/1962
4 CIA memorandum, 8/15/1962, 1691, 30112; John Warner, Journal Office of Legislative Counsel, SECRET, 8/14/1962, 1, CREST; ibid., 8/17/1962, “Secret,” CREST
5 8/17/1962. Signed by Everett Walker, director, Syndicate & News Service
6 Shortly afterward, Admiral Burke sent EPD an autographed photo inscribed “To my good friend Elias…with appreciation for what he does for the Free World.” 8/1962
7 CIA [redacted], Memorandum for the Record, 8/15/1962; CIA [redacted], memorandum, 8/18/1962; the CIA’s deputy director of plans had earlier asked the USIA Assistant Director of Security to cherry-pick its “Top Secret” correspondence concerning Celia’s time in Moscow in 1948, apparently to find something that could be used to pressure her. 11/13/1957. CIA also suggested consulting with Eleni Vlachou for confirmation of her firing EPD, 8/18/1962. There is no information that she ever complied. CIA [redacted] memorandum referring to conference to discuss “ferreting out sources” of EPD’s income and contacting his “now divorced wife” to 8/20/1962.
8 Hill to EPD, Washington Star, 9/20/1963; About a week before, 9/11/1962, the CIA’s assistant deputy director of plans had written to the deputy director of plans, expressing frustration that, “despite our repeated warnings” over a decade, too many consider EPD “a charming fellow.” He concluded that EPD had become the exemplar of “problems we face with the Fourth Estate.”
9 Hill letter to EPD, 9/19/1992
10 CIA memorandum, 8/31/1962
11 Ibid.
12 US Naval Institute Proceedings, 5/2001, 69
13 Brugioni, 399
14 Manning, interview, ADP, 8/25/1962; Kennedy, ADP, 8/29/1962
15 Athens to SecState, telegram, 9/2/1962
16 Peter Braestrup, “Johnson Assures Greeks on U.S. Aid,” NYT, 9/4/1962
17 Robert Schott to Daniel Brewster, State Dept. Confidential Memorandum, “Secret Attachments,” 8/22/1962
18 Dallek (Flawed Giant), 42
19 Dallek, ibid., 42; Shesol, 110
20 September 10, 1962, NEA/GRK, RG59, NARA
21 “Senator Goldwater Lashes the ‘Weakness’ of U.S. Foreign Policy: Don’t Placate the Reds,” ADP, 11/4/1962
22 Ibid.
23 Labouisse to State Dept., Confidential, A-232, 9/22/1962, with copies to Kilduff (Salinger’s assistant press secretary) and Komer
24 State Dept. Security, confidential airgram, 9/11/1962; CIA classified message, 8/7/1962; CIA classified message, 8/20/1962; “US Ties with Greece,” Charleston SC, News and Courier, 11/12/1962
25 Agency of Newspapers for the Athens Press
26 Modiano, interview, 5/31/2012
27 Memorandum for Director of Central Intelligence McCone, 2/8/1963, FRUS, 1961–63, XVI, doc. 342; memorandum, “Greek Governmental Crisis,” 6/17/1963; NARA; Woodhouse (Rise), 1; Woodhouse (Karamanlis), 148
28 Woodhouse (Karamanlis), Chapter 6; Genevoix, 161–70
29 Gkotzaridis (Pacifist), 174; Murtagh, 60
30 Gkotzaridis, ibid., 213
31 Ibid., 175–6
