5 Reconstruction of these events was aided by contemporaneous affidavits, FOIA secured documents, and court documents, supplemented by EPD and Richard Westebbe interviews.
6 Ingrid Rodenberg v. Robert R. Rodenberg, Civil Action no. D 3741–67, District of Columbia Court of General Sessions, Domestic Relations Branch
7 EPD asked congressional investigators on 12/8/78, why, if the purpose was to catch Mrs. Rodenberg engaged in adulterous behavior, Mr. Rodenberg and his crew didn’t break in the night before when “a man was in the house until 3:30 a.m.”
8 Metropolitan Police Trial Board, 6/30/1969
9 Dept. of Justice, INS Investigation of EPD, A17 351 989, 4/22/1969. FBI interview with Ymelda Dixon, 2/10/1969; McLendon and Smith, 197
10 Ibid.
11 Ibid.
12 Barton to Celler, 1/31/1968
13 Celler, Morse, Hartke: Morse letter to Dean Rusk, 3/8/1968; INS exchanges: letter to Wayne Morse, 9/16/1968
14 Celler to Talbot, 5/3/1968; Hartke to Talbot, 3/29/1968
15 Talbot to Celler, 5/7/1968
16 Eastland to INS, 6/25/1968
17 CIA advising INS, 7/30/1968
18 Karamessines CIA report, 10/19/1967; FBI memorandum, 10/23/1968
19 FBI memorandum, 10/23/1968
20 Lewis Barton, District Director INS, memorandum, 12/28/1967
21 Petros Markaris, “Greece: the other side of 1968: Memories and Legacies,” 209
22 Tony Judt, 507
23 The former San Francisco mayor and powerful player in Greek-American politics told AP journalist James Polk in 1971 that he knew the three heads of the junta and that “90 percent of the Greek-Am community is in favor of the present gov’t because it brought STABILITY to Greece. No more civil war; no war with Turkey; real anchor for US in NATO.” Polk to JHB letter, 12/27/2011
24 “Rise of the Junta in Greece,” Matt Barrett https://www.ahistoryofgreece.com/junta.htm
25 Witcover (Very Strange), 6
26 He definitely didn’t want to repeat the experience of 1960, selecting Henry Cabot Lodge, a foreign policy equal.
27 UPI, “A Good Word’ for Agnew,” NYT, 8/10/1968, 12
28 Donald Rumsfeld, “Confidential Memo—1968 Meeting to Discuss Vice Presidential Nomination,” 8/8/1968; 1968%20Meeting%20with%20Richard%20Nixon%20re%20Vice%20Presidential%20Pick%2008-08-1968%20(1).pdf
29 Theo Wilson, “Pappas, the Rich Mystery Man Behind Agnew” New York Daily News, 8/9/1968; “Agnew, the junta and the CIA link with Nixon camp,” Sunday Times (London), 9/29/1968
30 National Press Club Transcript, Friday, 9/27/1968
31 “Remarks by Governor Spiro Agnew, National Press Club, Washington, D.C., 9/27/1968
32 Ibid.
33 Louise Gore letter to EPD, 9/27/1968; on 2/21/70 Agnew told a fundraiser in St. Paul, MN, “I have made no public statements on the Greek government.” Charles E. Claffey, “Exiled Greek Claims Agnew Supports Junta,” Boston Globe, 2/21/1970; in 1989, Agnew wrote historian Kutler: claiming to recall nothing about Greek money, the Gore note “and nothing about the Press Club…Louise Gore was pressuring me to support Demetracopoulos and my advisers were telling me that he was some sort of wild-eyed leftist who was to be avoided.” Agnew letter to Kutler, 2/1/1989
34 “Statement Made by the Greek Political Editor in Exile, Mr. Elias P. Demetracopoulos on Saturday, September 28 at a News Conference in Washington, DC,” Congressional Record, Wednesday, 10/9/1968
35 Ibid.
36 UPI, “Demetracopoulos,” 9/28/1968; “Greek Exile,” AP, 9/28/1968; Alain Clement, Le Monde, 9/29–30/1968; “Agnew, the junta and the CIA link with the Nixon camp,” Times (London), 9/29/1968
37 CIA memorandum, 9/30/1968
38 Nohlen & Stover, 830
39 Embassy of Greece letter to Cong. Les Aspin, 12/15/1980
40 Edward A. Junghans, Assistant District Director, Investigations, to EDP, 9/19/1968
41 Supporting Affidavit for INS,10/23/1968
42 SAC, WFO to FBI director noted that INS investigator was “endeavoring to develop” additional information concerning “subject’s morals” that could overcome the evidence of likely physical persecution in Greece and lead to EPD’s deportation. 11/14/1968 and 12/11/1968
18: JUNTA-GATE AND THE O’BRIEN GAMBIT
1 Louis Harris, interview, 7/28/2004
