56 Robert Parry, “FBI Concedes 10 Year Probe Found Nothing on Greek Journalist,” AP, 6/28/1984; Jack Anderson, “A Greek Journalist Is Finally Cleared of CIA-Leaked Smear,” Newsday (Garden City, NY), 5/7/1984
57 EPD to Edwards, 5/31/1984; EPD, “CIA Covert Action and Greece: A Case Study of the Usefulness of the Freedom of Information Act,” presentation to Yale Center for International and Area Studies, Yale University, 4/9/1988
58 Robert Tait, “Personal Politics,” The Scotsman (Edinburgh), 1/23/2001, 4
59 Republican Cong. Paul Findley “Personal and Confidential” to President Ford, 8,10/1976, EPDP; UPI, “White House File on Connally Includes 1972 Campaign ‘Tricks’ ”; Washington Star, 9/4/1977; Evans & Novak, “Discreet Probe of Connally,” WP, 9/3/1977; Jack Anderson, “1972 Skeleton in Connally’s Closet,” WP, 9/22/1979; Anderson, “Smugglers…,” WP, 12/24/1980; Reston, 551–3
60 Hitchens, “Kissinger in Greek Hit Plan?” Counterpunch, 2/16–28/1997, 5
29: LATER YEARS
1 “Washington’s Ten Perfect Gentlemen,” Washington Dossier, 11/1976, 32
2 Anderson, “Solving a Watergate Mystery,” WP, 6/13/1982
3 “Kissinger Says Hersh Charge ‘a Slimy Lie’,” Baltimore Sun, 6/3/1983
4 Hitchens, “Watergate—The Greek Connection,” The Nation, 5/31/1986
5 Xan Smiley of the London Telegraph told Christopher Hitchens about the Helms assessment. Helms knew that Smiley’s father, “supposedly” part of the model for the Le Carré character, had been a famous British intelligence agent. Xan Smiley then prepared a Watergate anniversary article, believing that the Republicans broke in to “find something they wanted to keep quiet rather than made public.” Christopher Hitchens to EPD, 7/1/92
6 Kempster, 1990, Hackett, 1992; “Why did they do it?…I don’t know…” Ben Bradlee on The Charlie Rose Show, WNET[13], 10/21/1993; John Dean concluded it was a “badly botched” “fishing expedition” searching for “no specific information.” He also pointed out that Magruder said to Liddy, “while you’re in there photograph whatever you can find,” and Hunt told the first-wave burglars to “look for financial documents—anything with ‘numbers on them,’ ” especially if it involved “foreign contributions,” Dean (End of the Story), 521
7 Liddy, 237; Gordon Liddy wrote that Jeb Magruder ordered him to photograph O’Brien’s “shit file” on Nixon. “The purpose of the second Watergate break-in,” Liddy claimed, “was to find out what O’Brien had of a derogatory nature about us, not for us to get something on him or the Democrats.”; Kutler (Wars), 204–5; “Liddy, et al wanted more than Hughes material in that break-in. They wanted to get information concerning Tom Pappas and his carrying of Greek CIA money to the 1968 Nixon campaign.” Kutler, letter to Jeb Stuart Magruder, 11/24/1987; Writing about foreign money in US elections, investigative journalist Joseph Spear asserted: “…there is considerable evidence that the burglars who raided the Watergate offices of the Democratic Party were really after Demetracopoulos’ Pappas file.” Editorial, Newspaper Enterprse Association, 11/21/1996
8 Gary Skolnik, Director of Global Research Strategy and Analytics to EPD, 8/30/1995. Citibank letter to EPD. “Since the early 1980’s, our international research efforts have benefitted considerably from your vast experience and personal networks in the fields of Washington policy developments, emerging market politics, and international finance.”
9 In response to his complaint to the 2007 FRUS, the State Dept. issued an ERRATA indicating “the reference to Androutsopoulos is incorrect.” However, because “it was not clear whether Tasca and Kissinger misspoke or whether the note taker recorded the wrong name,” it would not make any further correction. A spokesman told JHB in 2014 “it is up to an outside historian to correct the record.”
10 Weiner (Legacy), 632. When on a book tour, Weiner was asked by a caller in Silver Spring, MD, why he failed to credit Demetracopoulos as his source for what the reader considered the book’s best chapter. Weiner replied: “Mr. Demetracopoulos is an honorable man, but I prefer to tell this tale through American eyes.” WP Book World, July 24, 2007
11 Edwards, speech in Congressional Record, June 17, 1993, p. H 3777. Edwards explained: “This transaction was not only a violation of federal law which prohibits foreign governments from contributing to presidential campaigns, but also was a significant violation of the CIA’s founding charter which prohibits any intervention in US domestic affairs. If this disclosure had been known to the American people in 1968 candidate Nixon may well not have won the very close race with Hubert Humphrey, and consequently Watergate would never have happened at all…[I’m delighted] to bring to the attention of my colleagues the story of Elias P. Demetracopoulos, a tenacious seeker of the truth, who persevered in his quest for justice in spite of the powers that were brought to bear in the effort to harass him into silence and to discredit him. His devotion to democracy and to the truth is truly inspirational.”
12 EPD, “It Didn’t Start with Clinton,” WP, 6/15/1997 and “Beware a Revived Ministry of Lies,” Roll Call Daily, 2/26/2002; Navy Institute Proceedings, 1/2000 and 5/2001
13 Dr. James Herzog, email to JHB, July 13, 2015; Herzog, “World Beyond Metaphor,” in Bergmann, Kestenberg and Jucovy (eds.), Generations of the Holocaust, New York: Basic Books, 1982
14 William H. Webster to EPD, 4/6/1993; Henry S. Reuss, letter to EPD, 9/8/1996
15 Caryle Murphy,“ ‘Vindication’ Rewards a Six-Year Struggle,” WP, October 20, 1983
16 Kutler, interview, November 2011; Aristotle, Nichomachean Ethics, “Three Types of Friendship” in Book VIII.
17 Interviews, Betinakis and Tsalapatis, 6/2/2012
18 Invitation from Ambassador Alexandros Mallias, 12/17/2007; “Veteran Greek Journalist Elias Demetrakopoulos Honoured,” http://greeknewsonline.com, 1/14/2008
19 “US ‘Sorry’ for Junta Support,” Independent (Burns), 1/15/1998; AP, “Clinton leaves Greece after apology for past policies,” 11/21/1999; Andrew Cain, “Clinton Says US did not support Greek democracy: regrets support for junta in 1967,” Washington Times, 11/21/1999; Terrence Hunt, “Clinton concedes regret for U.S. support of Greek junta, Topeka Capital-Journal, 11/21/1999; James Gerstanzang and Richard Boudreaux, “Clinton Says US Regrets Aid to Junta in Cold War,” Los Angeles Times, 11/21/1999; “A look back at Clinton’s 1999 visit to Athens,” Kathimerini, 7/11/2016
20 “Elias Demetracopoulos Receives Award in D.C.,” National Herald, 1/12/2008
21 Ibid.
22 James H. Barron, “Time for Compromise, Not Payback, in Greece,” Global Post, 6/14/2012
23 The project began as a documentary, “Elias Demetracopoulos—THE MAN WHO SUED THE CIA, Maria Gentekou, Kalliopi Legaki, producers, Portlanos Films prospectus, 7/6/2010; Abed Alloush, “Greek Journalist’s Story Inspires Documentary,” March 17, 2014; YouTube: “It’s Time for Heroes, 8 min Trailer” by Maria Gentekou, http://youtu.be/KJE3iRgldhw, March 19, 2013; Basil Tsiokos, “It’s All Greek to Me: Championing Regional Filmmaking at the 15th Anniversary Thessaloniki Doc Fest,” indiewire.com, 3/25/2013
24 Among the congratulatory notes received were one from historian Robert Dallek, who described him as “a force for honest government and investigative journalism. We are all better for his many years of effective work” (email to JHB, 11/14/2013), and one from John Holum, who recalled “it was a pleasure to work with you not only because of the warmth of your friendship and the righteousness of your cause, but also because, as a skilled journalist you always backed up your assertions with facts.” Email to JHB, 11/15/2013
25 Martin Baron, email to JHB, 9/1/2014
26 Barbara LaRosa, interview, 6/26/2015
27 The account of EPD’s last days in Athens are distilled from personal accounts of Kostas Loukopoulos, Stefanos Manouelidis, Persa Metaxas, and Christina Moustaklis, 5/2015–4/2016.
28 Kaklamanis served from 1993 to 2004.
29 “New Greek law permits cremation,” NYT, 3/2/2006; Helena Smith, “Greece defies church with step towards first crematorium,” The Guardian, 3/12/2019
SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHY
BOOKS, THESES, AND REPORTS
Abbot, G. F. Greece and the Allies 1914–1922. London: Methuen & Co., 1922; Hotfreebooks.com.
Agee, Philip, and Louis Wolf. Dirty Work: The CIA in Western Europe. New York: Dorset Press, 1987.
Agnew, Spiro Theodore. Go Quietly…or Else. New York: Morrow, 1980.
