51 AP, “Goodell Ends Stall on Envoy,” Wilmington (DE) Evening Journal, 12/16/1969
52 Congressional Record, 12/19/1969, S17227–32; “Tasca Given Senate OK as Greek Envoy,” Philadelphia Inquirer, 12/20/1969
53 “Statement of Senator Edward M. Kennedy on the Military Junta in Greece,” 12/19/1969
20: “SENATOR, ARE YOU TELLING ME IT’S A TRAP?”
1 J. E. Miller, 162
2 “Kissinger to Nixon, memorandum, FRUS, 1969–1976, Vol. XXIX, no. 265, 12/19/1969
3 Report by Ambassador to Greece (Tasca), “Report on Greece,” ibid., no. 273, 3/31/1970
4 Memorandum from chairman of the National Security Council Undersecretaries Committee to President Nixon, ibid, no. 278, 5/21/1970
5 J. E. Miller, 161–4
6 Voutselis to EPD, 1/13/1970
7 Persa Metaxas, letters to EPD, 1/17/1970 and 2/5/1970; interview, 5/30/2012
8 Brewster, Memorandum for the Files, 4/4/1969 NARA, RG59, Central Files, 1967–69, Pol 15–1, Greece; FRUS, 1964–68, Vol. XVI, doc. 301; J. E. Miller, 159–60; Vidalis, 25–6
9 Dimitrakis, 135–6; Sulzberger (Mediocrities), 601; Draenos, “Exile Politics,” The Historical Review, Vol. XI (2014) 31–65; see Papandreou, 5/18/1970 letter to John Deros in Vidalis, 83. According to Newsweek, Andreas’s “association with far left groups and individuals…scared off a good deal of émigré support.” 1/12/1970, 36; In Geneva, George Mylonas said opposition groups and individuals should coordinate their activities, but refused to work together with Andreas, Vidalis, 90; even the US Committee for Democracy in Greece, whose original purpose was to free him from prison, reluctantly concluded that “Andreas isn’t helping.” Pyrros, 1, 4
10 March 12, 1970, NET (Channel 13) documentary: Rex Polier, “Watching the Wandering Greek in Exile,” Philadelphia Bulletin, 3/12/1970; “Melina Mercouri Stars on NET Network,” NYT, 3/11/1970
11 Bill Duke, handwritten note to EPD (undated). Duke had been an assistant to Senator Jacob Javits (R-NY).
12 Murtagh, 132–3
13 Blood, Fritzlan, King, ADST; see J. E. Miller, 164, fn 26 re: Haig suppression of 10/1/70 State Dept.’s Bureau of Intelligence and Research report critical of US policy
14 Remarks to Foreign Student Service Council of Greater Washington Film Benefit Program, 1/20/1970
15 Pillar, 70
16 Ibid., 72
17 Vidalis, 73; Christian Science Monitor, 5/6/1970
18 Pyrros, 16–17
19 State Dept. memorandum, 3/19/1970
20 Pyrros, Archives, Memoir, 17
21 Howe, Power Peddlers, 434
22 Ibid., 433
23 Hersh, interview, 12/1/13; Kovotsos, “It’s Time for Heroes” documentary, 2014
24 “Demetracopoulos’ Proposals for the Greek Situation,” Confidential State Dept. memorandum of conversation, 3/19/1970
25 Saville Davis, “Nixon Congress Collision: Back-door US Arms Aid to Greece Strikes Congress Sparks,” Christian Science Monitor, 5/6/1970; Vidalis, 81–2
26 Hartke Address to Senate, 6/29/70; Hartke Amendment and debate, 116 Congressional Record, 21995–22016, 6/29/70; Woodhouse (Rise), 80; EPD Press Statement, 6/29/1970
27 Saville R. Davis, “US Cools toward Greece,” Christian Science Monitor, 6/17/1970; EPDP; Hartke to Rogers, 6/16/1970
28 Letters and telegrams exchange between Bob Riss (via Louise Riss) with Missouri senators Stuart Symington and Tom Eagleton (replies 6/30/1970) and Kansas senators James Pearson and Robert Dole (replies 7/7/1970 and 7/1/1970); letter exchange from and to CW with Connecticut senators Abraham Ribicoff and Thomas Dodd (respective replies 7/17/1970 and 7/6/1970) with 7/13/1970 and 7/21/1970 letters from CW to EPD
29 Editorial, “Arms for the Colonels,” NYT, 7/3/1970; EPD press statement, 6/29/1970
30 James A. Wechsler, “July 4 in Athens,” New York Post, 7/3/1970; Woodhouse, (Rise), 80–2
31 Embassy diplomats would refer to the triumvirate as “The Three Stooges,” and snicker at the homeliness of their wives. David Fritzlan, Charles Stuart Kennedy, ADST
32 Harsh criticism from some W. European countries prompted junta leaders to reach out in trade and diplomacy to East European countries as a “kind of blackmail…to silence their critics.” Anne Treholt in Clogg and Yannopoulos, 222.
33 Woodhouse (Rise), 82
34 “Brother of Nixon and Onassis in Deal,” NYT, 6/4/1970
35 UPI, “Student Sets Self Ablaze in Genoa,” Newport News (VA) Daily Press, 9/20/1970; Reuters, “Greek Protest Death,” New York Daily News, 9/20/70; Miami News, 9/24/1970
