PERSONALITIES

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP91-00901R000500070005-4
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 3
• Document Creation Date: December 9, 2016
• Document Release Date: November 14, 2000
• Sequence Number: 5
• Publication Date: October 31, 1983
• Content Type: NSPR

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WASHINGTON POST
S-; October 195:,
Halloween is also a special CIA
anniversary. Six years ago Adm.
Stansfield Turner, then director,
-fired some 250 of' the old boys there
and eventually eliminated some 800
positions. It became known as the
"Halloween Massacre," and 'ash-
ington author David Wise has me-
-morialized that event by the official
publication today of his- fast-paced,
exciting .new novel, "The Children's
Game." In the book,.which has al-
ready received rave reviews and is
selling well, Wise takes his readers
deep into the Langley cotton candy
machine with an old spy forced back
into the game who uncovers a plot of
those fired old boys attempting to
take over the agency.
One never knows what to expect
from a former CIA director. William
Colby, who directed the agency
under two presidents. said at the
University of' Virginia in Charlottes-
ville this weekend that as "an old
cold warrior" he is now committed to
a nuclear freeze. He said nuclear
weapons are "unusable," the arms
race is "unwinnable," unilateral re-
straint is "unworkable" and a world
shadowed by nuclear threat is "un-
livable." Colby said a nuclear freeze
would be easier to monitor than a
more detailed arms limitation agree-
ment. "Can't we come up with a sim-
pler statement?" he said. "Yes, let's
just stop building new weapons."
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indication
By Carvie Murphy
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For Elias P. Demetracopoulos there are no
tasks. Univ missions. Whether it.. is hounding
t:he former Greek military junta, spoiling
Washington's relations with the Greek col-
onels, ferreting out. secrets or clearing his
reputation, Demetracopoulos pursues his
dragons with doggedness and ?eicrutiat.ing
thoroughness.
Very -often he gets what he is after, and
recently he has claimed another victory. Six
years.after The New York 'Times-published
an article that the Greek lobbyist says sullied
his name, he has wrested from the Central
Intelligence Agency a letter disassociating
itself from the story and saying it has "no
hard facts" in its files to support the allega-
tions. attributed to the CIA, that were
printed about him.
Demetracopoulos calls this "vindication."
The New York Times, which published a
story about the recent CIA statement that
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Rewards a Six-Year Struggle
A man of medium build whose oval head "Dernetracopoulos was every night on the
once had "so much black hair,` according to phone dictating to me very exciting reports
its 54-year-old owner. Demetracopoulos is from congressional meetings and news which
gregarious and enthusiastic, with a self- helped our cause of getting rid of the colo-
mocking sense of humor. There is a Euro- nels," said Louis Danos, then editor of a
pear, accent to his manners and speech; small antijunta paper and now press coun-
which like his mind are obsessively precise. -selor at the Embassy of Greece.
He neither drinks nor smokes, and one of his For his antijunta efforts, Demetracopoulos
passions is chocolate milkshakes. was stripped of his Greek citizenship from
"He's a lobbyist by birth.... He's good at 1970 until 1974, when the colonels were
meeting, people, shaking hands, getting them ousted.
to knot him;" said C -congressional aide. But it was not -only the junta that Deme-
But even those who know him as "Elias" tracopouios.angered.
say they do not know him well He has no In 1968, he went to the Democratic Party.
family -and no formal organizational ties in and, he says, told them that the Greek junta
his ethnic community. "He's kind of a mys- was funneling money to the Nixon-Agnew
terv person. He kind of likes that role. That's campaign through a Boston-based. Greek-
my impression,' said one acquaintance. "He American businessman named Thomas Pap-
kind of creates this air of mystery about pas. Later, in 1971, he made similar alleea-
him." tions to a congressional subcommittee inves-
After arriving in Washington. Demetraco- tigating Greek-American relations. Though
Poulos lived at the Fairfax Hotel (now the these allegations made their way into the
Ritz-Carlton). then owned by Louise Gore, a press and the political tore of Washington,
some readers took as a retreat from its earlier prominent figure in the Republican Party in they have never been proved
account, says. "The source of the retraction is
the CIA. not The New York Times," accord-
ing to Assistant Managing Editor Craig
Whitney, .The CIA declines to elaborate on
its August. statement.
It is a fitting epilogue to the career of one
of Washi,n !on's more enigmatic figures.
Among foreigners who have migrated to this
political mecca with causes to plead, this
Athens-born son of an archeological guide
has negotiated a unique and controversial
swath through Washington's political and
social thickets..
Demetracopoulos was a well-known polit-
ical journalist in Athens in the 1950s and
1960s whose reporting on occasion provoked
clashes with U.S. officials in Greece. His rep-
utation in this city took seed when he fled
Greece after the 19G7 military junta and
began a one-man crusade on Capitol Hill
against the Greek colonels.
He took to Washington like a fish to wa-
ter. quickly making high-level connections in
both Republican and Democratic circles by
building on contacts he had made during his
journalistic career.
Maryland who had befriended the Greek Soon after, Demetracopoulos says he
exile. Almost. immediately after arriving, he began to feel the heat. In 1971, an anony-
landed a job as a foreign consultant for a mous memo written in the State Department
Wall Street brokerage firm called Brimberg was giver to House Speaker Carl Albert. It
&. Co. A divorcF whose former wife is now stated that. Demetracopoulos' reporting while
dead, he often escorted well-known Wash- he was still in Greece had caused "consider-
ington women to social functions. able embarrassment" to Queen Fredericka
But this rather glamorous facade evapo- and King Constantine and that. he "caused
rated, according to one acquaintance, with a friction in Greek-American relations... by
visit to Demetracopoulos' one-room flat in publishing highly classified documents."
the hotel. A sofa bed, telephone, table and i The memo went on to challenge Deme-
few chairs made up his furniture. The rest of tracopoulos' veracity by raising doubts about
the room was swamped with the inventory of his past. Demetracopoulos learned about the
Demetracopoulos' trade: piles and piles of I memo from a congressional aide and, after
files. he made heated protests. the State Depart-
"When you walked in you probably saw ment retracted it and sent him an apologt'.
"20.000 pieces of.paper." said Elias Vlanton, a Demetracopoulos says Nixon administra-
friend and activist in the Greek-American tion officials, including Attorney General
community. "It. was not elegance. It was John N. Mitchell, directly and indirectly
dedication.... I think this was his only in- threatened him with deportation because of
terest in the world-information about what the Pappas affair. Gore confirmed Mitchell
Greece was doing, about what the United made such threats to her about Demetraco-
States was doing. what Turkey was doing. poulos. Mitchell said that allegation was
That's all he cared about." "nonsense" and "totally ridiculous."
During the junta period, Demetracopou- In addition, Demetracopoulos says, the
los, who describes his political views as "cen- Justice Department began asking questions
trist-liberal," provided information to news- about him. He eventually obtained a memo
papers back home, but says he was not paid -
'for it. , CQNIThT D
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'CIA Director Will Give Lecture
FULTON, Mo. (AP) - Despite
:objections from the majority of the
faculty, CIA Director William J. Casey
is scheduled to go on as scheduled for
the Green Foundation . lecture at
Westminster College here Oct. 29, the
school has announced.
The college's board of trustees has
reaffirmed its invitation to Casey, and
Casey's office said Tuesday that the
director would present his speech as
plant ed.
Faculty criticism of Casey centered
on allegations of improper financial
dealings, according to 'Bruce
Fiackmann, the, college's director of
press relations. But CIA spokesman
Dale Peterson said all the allegations
-had been reviewed by the U.S. Senate
Intelligence Committee in 1981 and.
1982 and had been found to be
"absolutely untrue."
The faculty also had contended that
several recent Green lecturers had
been conservative rather than
covering a spectrum of political
positions.
John R. Green II, a lawyer in St.
Louis and grandson of the lecture
founder, said, it would be
"inappropriate to attach my
grandfather's name to a lecture given
by this man."
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