41 Ambrose (Nixon), 201; Summers, 54
42 Chotiner to EPD, 9/28/1970
43 Howe, Power Peddlers, 425
44 Craig Unger, “Tom Pappas: The Bostonian Behind the Greek Junta,” Boston After Dark, 10/12/1971; Disclosure of Pappas Foundations as “Conduit” for CIA Activities in Africa, Sunday Times (London), extended conduit to Greece, 9/29/1968; Richard Harwood, “Probe of CIA to Go Well Beyond Student Groups,” Boston Globe, 2/19/1967
45 He told the BBC in 1975 that, in order to assist the efforts of congressional committees with full investigatory and subpoena powers and “to diffuse any excuse which some in power would like to raise in order to avoid investigating the Greek question, I have carefully avoided making public my views and my material.” Edited version of BBC interview in Athens News, 8/30/1975
46 EPD, “Memorandum Concerning Activities of Thomas A. Pappas,” 9/17/1971, included in HCFA 1971 hearings, 459
47 Theodore Kariotis, interview, 1/16/2016
48 Ibid.
49 Rowland Evans and Robert Novak, “The Greek Colonels’ Friend,” WP, 9/19/1971; picking up on Elias’s reference to Pappas’s clandestine influence, they concluded that Congress wants to “put Pappas on the stand under oath.” AP, Nixon’s Donor’s Ties to Greek Junta Eyed,” WP, 9/21/1971; Lucia Mouat, “House report hints GOP-Greek junta ties,” Christian Science Monitor, 9/20/1971; William Millinship, “US may probe financier’s role in aid to Greece,” The Observer (London), 9/26/1971
50 Evans & Novak, “Tycoon’s Persuasive Powers Probed,” (Appleton, WI) The Post-Crescent, 9/21/1971; “Pair Accused of Aiding Junta,” Philadelphia Inquirer, 9/19/1971; Hitchens (Kissinger), 113
51 AP, “Nixon Backer Faces Probe on Ties with Greek Junta, Louisville (KY) Times, 9/20/1971; “Donor’s Ties to Greek Juntas Eyed;” WP, 9/21/1971; Charles E. Claffey, “Pappas poses Nixon issue,” Boston Globe, 11/13/1971; “Pappas Influence Cited,” Herald Traveler (Boston) 9/20/1971; Marquis Childs, “Agnew plunges into the Greek tragedy,” Baltimore Sun, 10/11/1971
52 Carl Marcy to David M. Abshire, 10/20/1971
53 George Churchill to Carl Marcy, 11/3/1971
54 They told their interviewees they were “just helping out the CIA.” Anderson, 2/12/1975
55 Sherman P. Lloyd (R-UT)
56 Charles E. Claffey, “Study raps US envoy to Greece,” Boston Sunday Globe, 11/14/1971; Jeremiah O’Leary, “Envoy to Greece Hit in House Study,” Washington Star, 11/14/1971; AP, “Bad Fitness Report for Envoy to Greece,” Honolulu Star- Bulletin, 11/26/1971; Hedley Burrell, “House Consultant Hits Diplomacy in Greece,” WP, 11/14/1971; Reuters, “Report Hits American Envoy to Greece,” Chicago Tribune, 11/15/1971; “U.S. Envoy in Greece Criticized for Low Morale,” Atlanta Journal-Constitution, 11/14/1971
57 EPD to Rosenthal, 12/8/1971; Rosenthal to EPD, 2/28/1972; Abshire letters to EPD, 12/10/1971 and 1/31/1972
58 Churchill to Davies, 12/27/1971
59 References to EPD’s alleged relationship with Andreas Papandreou and Mercouri in FBI report to Hoover, 11/4/1971, as part of a plan to turn around congressmen who have been taken in by “the charming and affable Demetracopoulos.”
60 National Archives, Nixon Presidential Materials, White House Tapes, September 20, 1971, 3:01–4:40 p.m., Cabinet Room, Conversation no. 76–4; Earlier 6/4/1971 WH conversation between Nixon and Agnew recounted in Strange Bedfellows
61 Mark O. Hatfield, “Vice Presidents of the United States: Spiro Theodore Agnew (1969–1973), Senate Historical Office, Washington: US GPO, 1997
62 Lou Panos, “Greek Trip Dims for Agnew,” Baltimore Evening Sun, 9/22/1971
63 Evans & Novak, 10/8/1971
64 “The vice presidency: Appointment in Gargalianoi,” TIME, 11/1/1971; NBC News 10/19/1971, Vanderbilt Television News Archive, Archives Record: 454357
65 Telegram from the vice president’s party to the Department of State, Athens, 10/18/1971, 2310Z, 36/5590. “Subject: Memorandum of Conversation Between Vice President and Prime Minister Papadopoulos,” 10/16/1971, 5:30 p.m.
66 “[British] Foreign office releases more junta files,” ekathimerini.com, 02/01/2002
67 Peter Grose, “Agnew, in his Farewell, Hails Greek Regime,” NYT, 10/24/1971; White House tapes: 10/26/1971, President Richard Nixon and Vice President Spiro Agnew
68 Burdick to EPD, 11/1/1971; Hatfield to EDP, 11/2/1971
22: CAMPAIGN 1972
1 1/24/1972
2 Fred F. Fielding to “JWD,” WHSF-Staff Member and Office Files-John Dean, Title: Elias Demetracopoulos, Box 21, RMNL
3 Dean note (to Fielding), 1/5/1972, RMNL
4 CIA memorandum, 1/5/1972; Laurence R. Houston, CIA, to Charles H. Brower, State Dept., 1/14/1972, RMNL
5 State Dept.’s Intelligence and Research Bureau to Raymond Mannall, FBI, Domestic Intelligence, Demetracopoulos, Elias, SECRET, 3/8/1972
6 CIA report re: Makarios, Secret, Central Intelligence Bulletin, 3/16/1972; Justice Dept, SAC, WFO to Director, FBI 3/16/1972 and 3/23/1972
7 A June FBI report to the acting director, with a copy sent to Kissinger’s National Security Council, essentially confirmed their objective “to confirm the existence and identity of a foreign principal [behind Demetracopoulos].” SAC/WFO to acting director, 6/21/1972
8 EPD press statement, 1/22/1972
9 Woodhouse (Rise), 106
10 State Dept., “The Scooper and the Pols,” 3/15/1972; letter to EPD from Congressmen Ben Rosenthal and Lee Hamilton, 3/15/1972; EPD, “Memorandum on Background of Homeporting,” 7/28/1972, in Homeporting Joint Hearings, 253–60; EPD press statement against agreement to sell F-4 Phantom jets to dictatorship, 3/29/1972; UPI 4/2/1972; “US sells Greece two squadrons of F4s,” Boston Globe, 3/31/1972
11 Walter J. Silva, ADST, 1/23/1995, 46
