21 Draenos, interview, 5/28/2012
22 Center Union/New Forces received 20.4 percent of the vote, PASOK 13.6, United Left 9.5, and National Democratic Union 1 percent. Clogg (Parties), 61
23 Clogg, ibid.
24 AmEmb (Stearns) to SecState (Asst Sec Stabler) 9/5/1974; AmEmb to SecState, 10/25/1974; AmEmb to SecState, 11/18/1974
25 Anderson, “Greek Hero Seeks U.S. Aid,” WP, 12/9/1974; UPI, “Tortured Greek Hero Arrives in US for Medical Treatment,” Las Vegas Sun, 12/22/1974; AP, “Agony of a Greek War Hero,” Oakland Tribune, 1/27/1975; Ann Blackman, “Victim of Torture Going Home,” Miami Herald, 1/28/1975; AP, “Partially Paralyzed Greek War Hero Going Home After Medical Treatment for Effects of Torture,” Sioux Falls Argus-Leader, 1/28/1975; “Statement Made By Mrs. Spyridon Moustaklis, 1/27/1975, EPDP
26 “Greece: Answering to History,” Time, 9/1/1975
27 Torture in Greece: The First Torturers’ Trial, Amnesty International, 1967, 45 (http;//www.Amnesty.org/en/library/asset/EUR25/007/1977/en/4e35f4ad-0257-42da-869d-873ea13c6c6d/eur250071977eng.pdf; Eleftherotypia (http:www.enet.gr/online_text/c=110,dt=16.11.2003,id=71351500; TIME, 9/1/1975; http:news.kathimerini.gr/4dcgi/_w_articles_civ_1_21/11/2007_249686; Christina Moustaklis, interview, 5/30/2012, and Moustaklis private papers: e.g. “USA,” and “Elias Demetrakopoulos,” EPDP
28 https://docplayer.net/amp/79206621-The-first-torturers-trial-1975.html
27: “THE PLOT TO SNATCH DEMETRACOPOULOS”
1 National Security Adviser, Memorandum of Conversation, Ford, Kissinger, Senators Case and Sparkman, Representatives Broomfield and Morgan, 2/6/1975, box 9
2 Anderson with Whitten, “Demetracopoulos Case,” WP, 2/12/1975
3 Heim to McDermott, Secret FBI memo, 2/6/1975; Whitten interviews
4 Anderson and Whitten, “US Officials Harassed Greek Exile,” WP, 2/12/1975
5 Letter from Senator George McGovern to Senator Frank Church, 2/12/1975; WP headlined the McGovern letter: “Senate Probe Urged of Exile’s Charges,” George Lardner, Jr., 2/13/1975
6 Heim to McDermott re: Inquiry by Les Whitten re: FBI Investigation of Elias Demetracopoulos SECRET CONFIDENTIAL, 2/6/1975
7 Lardner, WP, 2/13/1975; FBI, 2/14/1975 (105-131803-83); Ret. FBI Special Agent John Gamel, interview, 4/24/2014; Kempster: FBI “Black bag” jobs to obtain intelligence information was routine until officially stopped in 1966, but some FBI burglaries continued, 2/4/1977
8 Chief, Security Analysis Group to [redacted], # 77 59 (C), 2/27/1975; separate memorandum, 2/19/1975; CIA [Blind] Memorandum, 2/19/1975; see Keeley [Colonels’ Coup], 260–1
9 AP, “Junta-CIA link; Exile to Testify,” 4/8/1975
10 Interviews, Persa Metaxas and Christina Moustaklis, 5/30/2012
11 “Exile returns to Democratic Greece: American Praise for Demetracopoulos,” Athens News, 4/13/1975; “Exile Flies Home to Visit Father’s Grave,” Athens News, 4/23/1975; “Athens welcomes Demetracopoulos: Self-exiled Greek ‘Voice of Democracy’ in U.S. Returns,” Athens News, 5/17/1975
12 David Tonge, “The émigré eminence,” The Guardian, 4/18/1975; Tonge also reported on Greek government ordering check into junta’s EPD kidnap plans, BBC 4/27/1975; The Guardian, 4/28/1975
13 AmEmb to SecState, Priority, Secret, NODIS, “British Report on US Emissary to Athens,” 6/5/1975
14 Hitchens (Kissinger), 109
15 Les Whitten papers, Lehigh University, Folder 75.14, Demetracopoulos
16 Ibid.; presumably, Mitchell, who served on Kissinger’s NSC’s “40 Committee” that reviewed covert operations, was aware of Greek plots.
17 Jack Anderson with Les Anderson with Whitten, “The Plot to Snatch Demetracopoulos,” WP, 4/26/1975; Jack Anderson and Les Whitten, “Plot to Kidnap Greek Exile Detailed,” WP, 4/26/1975
18 Notes in Whitten’s Lehigh archives; confirmed in Whitten telephone interviews.
19 Whitten, interview, 12/20/2010
20 “Panayotakos” to EDP, letter, 6/23/1987
21 Panagiotakos, memoirs, 175–6, 195–6
22 Ibid.
23 Papadopoulos added that also aware of the kidnapping plans were A. Nomikos, minister counselor of the Greek Embassy in Washington, and George Levidis, then director of the press office. Levidis was the person who called Christina Moustaklis the year before to discourage the Walter Reed Hospital trip. Papadopoulos later told Kathreftis (Mirror) magazine that he would be a prosecution witness against Kissinger if he were ever to be prosecuted for crimes against EPD, Political and Financial Mirror, 1/2007, 36; Affidavit prepared while Papadopoulos was Greek Ambassador to Pakistan, 6/20/1987, in EPDP; Hitchens (Kissinger), 118–19
24 Charalambos Papadopoulos, letter in EPDP
25 Whitten, archives
26 Abourezk to Church, 4/28/1975; AP wire, 4/28/1975
27 “US Senate Committee to Investigate Alleged CIA involvement in Demetracopoulos kidnap plot,” Athens News, 5/2/1975
28 Edwards, press statement, 4/28/1975
29 AP, 6/3/1975; UPI, 6/25/1975
30 On that date, Greek legislators engaged in a detailed review of the activities of civil servants in the Department for Studying, Planning and Programming of the General Secretariat of Press and Information.
31 Anderson and Whitten, “Greek Probe of Funds Cancelled,” syndicated column, 6/24/1975; Greek papers followed: To Vima, Ta Nea, 6/25/1975; Kathimerini 6/26/1975; AmEmb Athens to SecState, “Greek Government Denies Jack Anderson’s story on CIA Pressure as Fiction.” Ref: 4716, 6/26/1975
