37 A year later, working with Howard University professor Nikolaos Stavrou he tried unsuccessfully to get contemporaneous American news media coverage of the mysterious murder of British freelance journalist Ann Chapman in Athens in October 1971; Stavrou, “The Case of Dorothy Ann Chapman,” undated, EPDP; “Case of Ann Chapman, murdered in Greece in 1971,” National Archives, Kew, FCO 9/3565, 1982; Mario Modiano,” Cause of Journalist’s Death Challenged,” The Times (London), 5/24/1984; European Parliament, Working Documents, 1984-1985, 5/7/1984, Document 1-206/84; Richard Cotrell, Blood on Their Hands
38 WP, 9/14/1970
39 FRUS, 1969–1976, XXIV (Jordan), “Minutes of a National Security Council Meeting,” doc. 318, 9/23/1970. A Spanish base agreement and South African military sales were announced along with the Greek arms decision.
40 Editorial, WP, 9/24/1970; AP report, 9/23/1970
41 William Clark, director, Information and Public Affairs, letter to B. J. Merketos, National Herald, 4/27/1970; EPD to Burke Knapp, 5/12/70; Burke Knapp to EPD, 5/15/1970; Evans & Novak, “World Bank Assails Greek Junta for Bid to Play Politics with Loan,” Financial Times; WP, 5/21/1970; “Row Erupts against $20 Million Loan to Greek Company,” 5/22/1970; “World Bank Protest at Greek Claim,” Times (London), 5/23/1970; Congressional Record, Senate debate, 5/29/1970
42 David E. Anderson, “Strategic,” UPI, 10/3/1970; Hearings before the Subcommittee on The United States Security Agreements and Commitments Abroad, Senate Committee on Foreign Relations, 91st Congress, Second Session, Part 7, June 9 and 11, 1970
43 Fulbright quotation in UPI, “U.S. A-Bombs Abroad in ’61?”, 10/11/1970
44 Transcript of 1/12/1961 interview with Army secretary Wilber M. Brucker, described in Warren Nelson, Exclusive/Urgent UPI wire, 10/10/1970; Walter Scott, Parade, 12/20/1970
45 “I colonnelli greci nel ’67 minacciarono basi Usa?” La Stampa, 11/25/1970; “Athener Obristen lieBen Automwaffen der USA umstellen,” Die Welt, 11/25/1970; “Le ogive americane in balia dei colonnelli,” Corriere della serra, 11/25/1970
46 Hartke press statement, 12/1/1970; Saville R. Davis, “Greek nuclear incident points to risk in Nato alliance,” Christian Science Monitor, 12/7/1970
47 In reviewing EPD’s State Dept. dossier, Barrington King sent a SECRET memorandum to Amb. Tasca, including an excerpt from a 11/1963 memo describing a State Dept. surprise that David Abshire, at the time an associate of Admiral Burke, planned to visit EPD in Greece. Abshire’s reply: “Yes, we know that the State Department has a file on him, but it’s only because he dares to write the truth.” 12/18/1970
48 His first formal confirmation came from Senator Frank Moss after June 1, 1971, reporting EPD had been stripped of citizenship on June 10, 1970. Abshire to Moss, letter, 4/1/1971, replying to Moss letter, 3/11/1971; AmEmb notes it had confirmation at least as early as December 1970, Elizabeth Brown to Walter Silva, 3/22/1971
49 Senators called the Greek ambassador on 12/11/1970 and telegrammed messages to the Greek prime minister, State Dept. documents re: “Senators to Prime Minister on Demetracopoulos Case,” 12/12/1970
50 “Messages from Various Senators to Prime Minister on Demetracopoulos Case,” Rogers to AmEmb Athens IMMEDIATE, drafted 12/11/1970, delivered 12/12/1970; SECRET telegram, Tasca to SecState, 6722, “We cannot obtain safe conduct…and we should stay out of middle of this.” 12/15/1970
51 Ibid., 12/11/1970
52 Rogers/Sisco to Tasca, 12/14/1970
53 Tasca to Rogers, “confidential” telegram, 12/15/1970; State Dept. later admitted internally: “Demetracopoulos would certainly be justified in claiming that the Greek Embassy had taken no initiative to inform him as to how to pursue his request.” Harrison M. Symmes to NEA/GRK—Mr. Rowe, 1/19/1971
54 Earlier, Sisco wrote “we must avoid being put in a position of guaranteeing any assurances that he may have on being able to depart.” 12/14/1970; Tasca agreed, noting the possibility of EPD being “detained” by Greek security because of the not-uncommon problem of “one agency of government [issuing] passport to individual who then discovers at airport that another agency will not permit his departure.” Tasca to Sisco, 12/15/1970. Similarly, Harrison Symmes told Hartke staffer Rosemary Rorick that a laissez-passer was a “convenience,” that wouldn’t protect the bearer from arrest. Memorandum for the Record, 12/15/1970
55 Ibid. [Tasca to Sisco], Athens 6739, 12/15/1970. Copies of this confidential communication were sent to the White House, CIA, NSC, and other US intelligence agencies.
56 Tasca to SecState, Confidential Telegram, 12/18/1970
57 Ibid.
58 Ibid.
59 Rogers to Tasca regarding Gravel’s message to the Greek government. Confidential telegram, 12/18/1970; “Gravel on Greek Incident,” WP, 12/28/1970
60 Persa Metaxas, letter to EPD, 12/12/1970
61 Tsalapatis, interview, 6/2/2012
62 Persa Metaxas, letter to EPD, 12/24/1970
63 Ibid.; Persa Metaxas, interview, 5/30/2012
64 Senators Mike Gravel, Quentin Burdick, and Frank Moss to President Nixon, 12/16/1970; “3 Senators Assail State Department,” NYT, 12/21/1970
65 Robert McCloskey in NYT, 12/21/1970; Sisco to Rogers, “The Elias Demetracopoulos Affair,” 12/18/1970; Rogers to AmEmb, “Athens Subj: Demetracopoulos” 1/15/1971, 30-8035; memorandum to Ambassador from POL-Elizabeth Ann Brown, 1/28/1971
66 Press briefing transcript, 12/21/1970; State Dept. Transcript of Press, Radio and Television News Briefing, 12/22/1970
67 Confidential to SecState “Immediate,” 12/14/1970
68 Timmons to Senator Gravel, 12/18/1970; “White House to Investigate Demetracopoulos Case,” Athens News, 12/29/1970
69 “Well, it’s not every day that you read about your death in a state document.” Hitchens (Kissinger), 110
70 Evans & Novak, “Another Greek Tragedy,” WP, 12/23/1970; inserting the column into the Congressional Record, E300, 1/29/1971, Cong. Don Edwards described the handing of the matter by Tasca and the Greek generals as “sickening, to say the least.” WP, 1/7/1971
71 “The Elias Demetracopoulos Affair,” Sisco to Rogers, 12/18/1970 and 12/22/1970
72 Sisco to Tasca, 12/14/1970; AmEmb to SecState, confidential telegram, 12/29/1970; Sisco to Tasca, confidential letter, 12/24/1970
73 Assistant Secretary Sisco to Ambassador Tasca, “SECRET” telegram, 1/16/1971
74 NYT, 12/30/1970; on the same day, a forceful NYT editorial (“More Tyranny for Greece”) asserted that “by its last actions of 1970, Greece’s military dictatorship has rendered even more ludicrous the claims of its apologists in Washington that it has ‘established a trend toward constitutional order.’ ”
75 Grigoriadis II, 169; Mario Modiano, “US concern over Greek relations,” Times (London), 2/8/1971
21: PUSHING CONGRESS
