POLICE INSPECTOR RAKINKJIS

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• Document Creation Date: November 9, 2016
• Document Release Date: December 22, 1998
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• Publication Date: September 19, 1947
• Content Type: IR

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INTELLIGENCE REPORT
COUNTRY Greece
SUBJECT Police Inspector Rakind jis Tsgraded # e
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1. A campaign will be launched soon in the Center Press against Police Inspector-
Rakindjis,former Chief of the General Security Section, Athens Police. He
has been replaced by Inspector N. Tsaoussis.
2. Accusations against Rakindjis are expected to consist of the following:
a. His officers caused the death of a Greek named
Grigoratos who died while under questioning by
General Security in connection with the theft
of certain arms from a government warehouse.
b. For the illegal release of a long wanted criminal,
a nationalist outlaw named Kalabalikis, wanted
for crimes committed against C=nunists and
their families in the Bolos area and on whom a
reward of 15 million drachmae had been set.
Arrested in Athens by police officers under
Reis and, at Rakindjis' orders, he was
quietly released and replaced in jail by the
latter's brother. Shortly thereafter, the
brother was released in due course. The two
police officers who arrested Kalabalikis, peeved
over the loss of the 15 nt3llion drachmae reward,
have probably stirred up the matter.
c. For arresting innocent people and exiling them
since, of the nearly 15,000 persons who were-
arrested and exiled,a very large percentage of
them was not Communist. The indiscriminate
arrests of many of these people is being blamed
on the fanaticism and extremism of Rakindjis.
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Comment: 1. It has been reliably reported that
because omr1po ce stupidity and political ineptitude
thousands of truly innocent individuals were herded off
to the islands to exile. A shockingly large number of
cases in which innocent persons had been turned into
the police by members of various royalist organizations
such as "]C", for QQW.,X r ;om Jealousy or
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have been disclosed. 2. On the other hand, in
the rush and haste of the new :;Sinister of Public
Order to rectify the gross injustices of the :ass
arrests, '.stakes are bein, made and some proved
officials of the Communist Party are being released.
3. Conditions on the islands, confirm all earlier
reports that the Cormnunists had managed to organize
the exiles on a co ununity basis and were putting
across intensive propaganda. Although some of the
innocently exiled individuals had the patriotism
and the strength of character to excuse the gov-
ernment's action, there were many Who considered
their exile as figuratively the last straw. The
locking up of low level members, sympathizers, alleged
sympathizers, and plain suspects, has played directly
into the hands of the Communist Party. A reliable
report of the minutes of a top level meeting among
a handful of the major communist leaders,held
immediately following the arrests reveals considerable
satisfaction over the arrests especially since the
people had not had the foresight at least to conduct
immediate spot interrogations of the more ortant
members of the party as they were arrested.)
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