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11 Murtagh, Rape, 104, 207

12 Notes and schedule details re: visit in EPD private papers

13 Vlachou to EPD letter, 3/26/1969

14 Cong. Don Fraser inserted the “Greece: A New Vietnam?” speech into the Congressional Record, Vol. 115, no. 87, 5/27/1969; Senator Frank Moss, letter to Agnew 5/7/1969; Agnew response 6/12/1969; Senator Quentin Burdick sent letters to Defense Secretary Laird, SecState Rogers, and Kissinger twice, soliciting their views, once enclosing the GWU speech, the other with the Hudson Institute paper.

15 Louis Menand, “Fat Man,” New Yorker, 6/27/2005

16 7/16/1969; Kahn sent the paper to Hudson’s entire mailing list, including Kissinger. Republican Senator Charles Goodell put the Hudson paper in the Congressional Record, along with the earlier EPD Wall Street Journal article, 8/5/1969

17 State Dept., 8/20/1969; CIA 7/16/1969; CIA memorandum, 10/17/1969

18 LOOK, 5/27/1969, 19–21; oral histories later revealed that Ambassador Henry Tasca didn’t like to receive “reports describing torture or severe punishment without trial” and when confronted with reports of torture from American diplomats the CIA would say “That’s not true. We hear from our sources…,” the sources being those who were doing the torturing. Charles Stuart Kennedy, ADST

19 Ibid.

20 Ibid.

21 Panorama WTTG TV, 5/29/1969 transcript

22 Ibid.

23 Testimony, 7/8/1969

24 “The Council of Europe Fights for Democracy in Greece, 1967–1969,” Andreas G. Papandreou Foundation, Historical Series no. 1, May 1998. “The Greek Affair” in Council of Europe’s European Yearbook, Vol. XVII, 1969, 272–335

25 Kofas, 101; FRUS, 1969–1976, XXIX, doc. 257, 10/7/1969

26 Karamanlis letter, EPDP; Woodhouse, Karamanlis, 192; Vidalis, 59; State Dept. Confidential memorandum, 10/30/1969 noted EPD supporting Karamanlis statement in telephone conversation with Andreas Papandreou in Toronto.

27 Woodhouse (Karamanlis), 193

28 Editorial, “Caramanlis fights the junta,” NYT, 10/1/1969

29 EPD telegram to Robert Brimberg, 10/29/1969

30 Vidalis, 64

31 Deena Clark letter to EPD, 10/5/1969

32 Historian Stanley Kutler reviewed the document at the Nixon archives and described it as filled with pages of scurrilous information on Demetracopoulos, largely drawn from CIA files. The archives have since been relocated to Yorba Linda, California, and archivists there now say that that Caulfield memo is missing, perhaps misfiled among the thousands of other documents.

33 10/2/1969, State Dept.; Secret [CIA] memorandum regarding discussion about EDP, 10/17/1969; [CIA] heavily redacted review of meeting with [X] at 10:30 a.m., 10/16/1969

34 Vigderman note attached to Kent Crane, Office of Vice President, 10/6/1969 confidential request, confirming oral briefing, “nothing in writing,” 10/7/1969

35 “No further action is warranted and is considering case closed.” It sent its assessment to State, the CIA, and the INS, all three of which kept their investigations quite active.

36 CW to EPD, letter, 7/2/1969

37 Ibid.

38 “Demetracopoulos Responds to TNH Interview with US ambassador Philips Talbot,” National Herald, 8/27/2010

39 For better understanding of Tasca background, see J. E. Miller, 161.

40 Evans & Novak, Inside Report, Philadelphia Inquirer, 3/31/1969

41 Goldwater (With No Apologies), 214–5; Memorandum for the President’s File, Washington, 3/20/1969. SUBJECT Early-afternoon Meeting in the President’s Office with Honorable Thomas A. Pappas (1:00–1:15 p.m.) 1 Source: National Archives, Nixon Presidential Materials, White House Special Files, President’s Office Files, and Memoranda for the President

42 Evans & Novak, Inside Report, 3/31/1969 included the Congressional Record, CR, E6084, 7/17/1969; Philip Warden, “An Achilles Heel—The Greek Post,” Chicago Tribune, 8/12/1969; Evans & Novak, “Greek junta cynicism,” 11/16/1969

43 Nixon would eventually write to Quinn, indicating he had picked Tasca, whom he had known “since 1947” and considered “several cuts above the average foreign service officer.” Letter, 12/20/1983

44 Senate Foreign Relations Committee, Nomination Hearings, 11/4/1969, 28

45 State Dept., informal State Dept. memorandum, 12/3/1969

46 Yearbook of the European Convention on Human Rights; the European Commission and European Court of Human Rights, “1969: The Greek Case,” The Hague: Martinus Nijhoff, 1972; editorial, “Greek Junta on Trial,” NYT, 12/11/1969

47 News Release, Moss Opposes Confirmation of New Ambassador to Greece,” 12/17/1969, Congressional Record S17228-9; Paul Grimes, “Senators Stall on Envoy to Greece,” Philadelphia Bulletin, 12/10/1969; AP, “Block of ambassador’s approval planned to protest Greek policies,” Arizona Republic, 12/11/1969

48 Pelt, 297–9; Nafpliotis, 61

49 Munn, 99-100

50 Earlier that year, junta organ Eleftheros Kosmos editorialized “A Return [to democracy] is Precluded,” 4/23/1969, and at Salonica Trade Fair, Papadopoulos proclaimed: “Leaps forward are not achieved with a parliament.” 9/9/1969

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