32 Evans & Novak, “Agnew’s Turnaround on Greece,” WP, 7/16/1975; “Miss Gore’s Old Letter Leads CIA Probe to Agnew, Junta,” Baltimore Sun, 7/16/1975
Lee Belser, “Gore Letter Seen Vital in Senate Probe of CIA,” Baltimore News American, 7/17/1975
33 CIA Memorandum for the Record, 7/24/1975; Jack Anderson, WP, 6/24/1975; CIA, Review Staff no. 75/16, 7/16/1975
34 “Agnew’s Response,” Baltimore Sun, 7/16/1975; “Agnew denies funding from Greek Junta,” NYT, 8/2/1975; Robert B. Ling, “Agnew’s Money,” Philadelphia Inquirer, 6/30/1975; “Hill Probers Eye Session with Nixon,” WP, 7/29/1975; Agnew wrote Kutler that he was not involved in “raising funds from the Greek Colonels. I…had no part in Tom Pappas’ fund raising efforts overseas…” Agnew to Kutler letter. 3/20/1989; Kutler thought Agnew to be “an incorrigible liar,” Kutler interviews with JHB.
35 “AmEmb (Kubisch) to SecState CONFIDENTIAL “Coup Trial Witness asserts CIA-Papadopoulos Relationship,” 8/9/1975; “George Gives Value,” The Nation, 8/13/1973,101; Deane, 96; Winter (American Intervention), 305. This view has been contradicted by Woodhouse (Rise) and Klarevas, 37.
36 “Demetracopoulos,” Athens News, 8/12/1975; “US Fears Revelations,” Athens News, 8/15/1975; AP, “Greece Coup-CIA Probe,” Bristol (CT) Press, 9/4/1975; Ta Nea, headline: “Prosecution of likely CIA agents in the April 21 coup” cited in AmEmb Athens to SecState, “Press coverage of the investigation of charges against former ambassador Tasca,” Priority/limited official use Athens 6955, PR 111541Z, Confidential
37 EPD told the BBC he wanted US House and Senate intelligence committees to investigate the Greek question, particularly the relationship between US and Greek intelligence services. He said Congress had the power to “demand that the administration produce all the written materials which shed light on the case, and to demand sworn testimony of all the witnesses whom they consider necessary irrespective of the office they held or hold now.” Paul Nathaniel, BBC Greek section, 8/25, 1975, edited in “Demetracopoulos—Outlook on Greece,” Athens News, 8/30/1975
38 AP, “Greece, 9/25/1975; In 1978, EPD met with Senate staff several times and was told they would contact him later if they decided to pursue the matter, either with a report or with hearings. They never did.
39 Ben Rosenthal, chairman of the House Foreign Affairs Committee, subcommittee on Europe, had earlier commented on the Demetracopoulos book: “This book whose distribution was prevented in Greece after the 1967 coup, became thereby one of the very first victims of the Papadopoulos junta. It is also very significant that when these revealing interviews were first published in the Greek press, a number of their grave, timely and accurate warnings were ignored. If these insights had been taken into account the events which led to the night of April 21, 1967 might have been avoided.” Rosenthal letter to EPD, 11/7/1974
40 John Prados and Arturo Jimenez-Bacardi (eds.), “White House Efforts to Blunt 1975 Church Committee Investigation into CIA Abuses Foreshadowed Executive-Congressional Battles after 9/11,” National Security Archive, The George Washington University, National Security Archive Electronic Briefing Book no. 522, posted July 20, 2015; John Prados and Arturo Jimenez-Bacardi, “Fortieth Anniversary: The Church Committee, the White House and the CIA, Spring 1975,” 4, 7; http://nsarchive.gwu.edu/NSAEBB522-Church-Committee-Faced-White-House-Attempts-to-Curb-CIA-Probe/; Digital Security Archive, “CIA Covert Operations II: The Year of Intelligence,” 1975
41 Nick Thimmesch, “Birth of a Salesman,” New York Times Magazine, 10/26/1975
42 Hersh (Price), 648
43 Boos, interviews, 1/2011, supplemented by information from files and interviews with Summers, Kutler, Pyrros, and Warren Nelson interviews
44 Appendix V—interview with Hon. Henry J. Tasca, former United States Ambassador to Greece, by Jack Boos, Committee Counsel, September 26, 1975, U.S. Intelligence Agencies and Activities: Committee Proceedings, Proceedings of the Select committee on Intelligence, US House of Representatives, 94th Congress, First Session, 1975
45 AP, “A Four Year Old Confidential Memorandum,” 9/24/1975
46 “Memorandum for the Record, Dimitrakopoulos,” 10/18/1974
47 Ibid.
48 Warren (Nelson) to Les Aspin, “Memo Re Alleged Harassment of Greek by CIA,” 12/15/1975; James Pyrros archives; Special Collections, University of Michigan
49 Ibid.
50 Edwards request to House Intelligence Committee referred to in AmEmb telegram to SecState, 12/19/1975
51 “Probe Target Joins Ford’s Fundraisers,” Florida Times-Union, Jacksonville, 12/19/1975
52 Leonard Curry, UPI, “Industrialist Tied to Questionable Contributions: Pappas joins Ford fund-raising committee,” Dominion News, Morgantown, WV, 12/19/1975; In Athens, To Vima headlined, “Pappas Seeks Ford’s Intervention for Coca-Cola! He is also collecting money for the President’s election,” 12/18/1975; Ta Nea’s headline: “So that he won’t lose the Coca-Cola franchise” “Pappas to Ford: ‘Help (me) so I can help (you),’ ” 12/18/1975
53 “Greek Businessman Joins Ford Camp as Fundraiser,” NYT, 12/19/1975
54 Kiesling (Urban), 9; Lawrence Stern, “CIA Agent’s Murder Spurs Accusations,” WP, 12/25/1975; John Cooley and Peter Melias “Anti-CIA Press Cited in Slaying,” Christian Science Monitor, 12/25/1975; Athan G. Theoharis, Richard H. Immerman: The Central Intelligence Agency: Security Under Scrutiny (Greenwood, 2006), 207
28: FIGHTING FOR VINDICATION
1 Russell Howe and Sarah Hays Trott, “The Foreign Agent,” Washingtonian, 12/1974; EPD, LTEs, Washingtonian, 2/1975
2 EPD, Washingtonian, LTE, 2/1975
3 Howe and Trott, Power Peddlers: How Lobbyists Mold American Foreign Policy, 1977
4 “Comments of Elias P. Demetracopoulos on Galley Proof of Doubleday & Co. Book Titled, The Power Peddlers by Russell Warren Howe and Sarah Hays Trott” (undated); Dobrovir legal memorandum re: Howe book (undated)
5 Russell Warren Howe, “Asset Unwitting: Covering the World for the CIA: Correspondent Tells of Employment by Secretly Funded Agency News Service,” MORE, 5/1978, 20–7
6 McGovern letter to Churchill, 6/25/1974; Churchill to McGovern, 2/28/1977
7 McGovern letter to Senator John Sparkman, chairman, Senate Foreign Relations Committee, 3/1/1977; Walter Taylor, “McGovern’s Objection Blocks 557 Promotions,” Washington Star, 3/1/1977; Lawrence Pezzullo, Deputy Assistant Secretary for Congressional Affairs (transmitting Churchill answers) to McGovern, 2/28/1977; Pezzullo to John Holum, 3/4/1977; Dobrovir to EPD, 3/10/1977; Holum to Pezzullo, 3/29/1977; McGovern to Douglas Bennett, Assistant Secretary for Congressional Relations, 6/7/1977; Bennet to McGovern, 8/4/1977; Bennet to McGovern, 8/18/1977
8 McGovern, letter to Inouye, 10/29/1976, EPDP
9 Holum, emails and telephone interviews, 10/4–7/2011
10 “Pinochet ‘Personally Ordered’ Washington Car Bombing,” GWU National Security Archive, archive2.gwu.edu/NSAEBB/NSAEBB532-The-Letelier-Moffitt-Assassination-Papers/; “Nixon on Chile Intervention: White House Tape Acknowledges Instructions to Block Salvador Allende,” National Security Archive Electronic Briefing Book no. 110, 2/3/2004; Kornbluth, The Pinochet File.
11 Senator James Abourezk made explicit the kidnapping link in the Congressional Record, S17381, 9/30/1976, inserting an EPD interview with Ta Nea, 1/7/1976
12 Inouye to McGovern, 3/4/1977
13 Anderson, “McGovern urges CIA Probe,” Daily Item (Sunberry, PA), 3/15/1977
14 Ross Evans, “Did US Help Greek Exile’s Harassment?” Washington Star, 3/15/1977
15 Douglas J. Bennet Jr., letter to Sen. George S. McGovern, 8/4/1977.
