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...overthrew Papadopoulos in 1973 to become dictator himself until democracy was restored in 1974. Ioannidis spends most of his time alone, reading military history and books about the CIA. Even so, he occasionally gives parties in his cell that are attended by convicted torturers, members of his despised ESA military police, who reside on the third floor. The bumpkin of the bunch, according to Papathanassiou, is former Deputy Premier Stylianos Pattakos, whose meek acceptance of abuse by fellow inmates and blind devotion to " his President" make him the butt of prison-yard jokes. Pattakos even gets pelted with tomatoes...
Only a few miles from Korydallos, the men alleged to have been the grand inquisitors of the Papadopoulos regime also faced trial. Before a military tribunal, 31 officers and men of ESA, the notorious Greek military police, faced charges of torture. Witness after witness testified that within a week of Papadopoulos' April 21, 1967, coup more than 8,000 had been arrested. Of these, 6,188 were banished into exile. Another 3,500 were subsequently sent to ESA torture centers. One prosecution witness, former Colonel Spyridon Moustaklis, 49, was unable to answer questions because brain damage caused by beatings...
...Athens, a city where "everybody knows everybody else," almost everybody has heard of Brigadier General Dimitrios loannidis (pronounced Ee-o-ahn-ee-dis). A spectral, Beria-like figure who commands Greece's military police force-the feared ESA-loannidis was not seen by the public even at the swearing-in ceremony of Phaedon Gizikis, the colorless army general who is Greece's new President. He did not really have to, since it is loannidis and not Gizikis who runs the junta...
loannidis was rescued from obscurity by George Papadopoulos as a reward for having helped him come to power in 1967. Papadopoulos made him chief of the military police, which gradually had been transformed into an internal security army. When Papadopoulos declared martial law after the 1967 coup, he increased ESA'S power even further by making it the junta's chief arm of law and order. Many of the allegations of prisoner torture under the Papadopoulos regime involve ESA...
...ESA, Whitehair gathered a staff of his old buddies around him. "I had to call on my friends," he explained. "I had to make doggone sure there were no Commies around the place." Entrenched there, he started looking for something better. When he went job hunting at ESA, Bill Foster turned him down flat. But by August, after some fancy footwork on the White House carpets, Whitehair was appointed Under Secretary of the Navy...