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Apart from the active support of the American Military Mission in Greece, the Pentagon's representative, the Colonels receive help from, and probably owe their jobs to, the CIA. Before the coup, Colonel Papadopoulos was chief liaison between the CIA and its Greek counterpart, the KYP. The latter is directly financed and controlled by the CIA. The head of the CIA in Greece, James M. Potts, refers to Papadopoulos as his "son." Thomas Pappas, a Boston Greek-American businessman who owns Esso-Pappas, the leading oil company in Greece, has publicly declared how proud he is to work...
...Judiciary Committee for further study ?and there it would almost certainly die. By March 24, Republican Robert Griffin of Michigan warned Nixon that the Democrats needed to pick up only a dozen Republican defectors to carry that vote. From then on, the pro-Carswell Senate leaders and Administration liaison men met daily in the White House to plot strategy...
...that morning, the White House was getting desperate. Liaison men under Bryce Harlow began telephoning every Republican who might waver. They tried to convince each one that he was the key to victory for Carswell: "You're the one. You make the difference." Incredibly, some, like Maryland's Charles Mathias, had been ignored until then. There was now great alarm in the White House, and the President was frantic for information. Senator Dole called Nixon Tuesday night. "How does it look?" the President asked. "Rough," said Dole. "It hinges on two Senators, Mrs. Smith and Marlow Cook...
...peak of the strike, a BAM representative attributed the decisions to close contact with the administration. Following the theory, "If you know a snake well enough then you will know when he is going to strike and you can get out of the way," BAM maintained skillful liaison with the administration. "We have been doing our homework...
...year-old Yale graduate has held a number of government positions as a Foreign Service Officer. Senale aide and Congressional liaison officer in President Kennedy's task force to establish a Domestic Peace Corps. From 1965 through last June he taught American history at St. Paul's School in Concord...