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...POLK CONSPIRACY...
...spring of 1948, the body of CBS correspondent George Polk washed up in Salonika bay, his hands and feet bound with rope, a bullet hole in the back of his head. The Greek pathologist who conducted the autopsy on the 34-year- old journalist found 3 lbs. of undigested lobster in his stomach...
...hearty meal, perhaps even two. But who picked up the check? And who took him on a one-way boat ride? For 42 years circumstantial evidence and plain common sense have pointed to agents of the ruling Greek Royalist Party, then conducting a civil war against communist guerrillas. The Polk Conspiracy supports this view. So why, after all these years, should one bother to read more about it? Because Kati Marton, in spinning a real-life thriller, brings fresh material and renewed outrage to < one of the fascinating stories of the cold war. She also points the finger...
Like his CBS boss Edward R. Murrow, Polk is a model for the American journalist as brooding idealist. Not satisfied with accepting government handouts, he tried to report the Greek civil war from behind the communist lines. Such enterprise disturbed the Royalists. Either they did not understand the role of an independent press or they understood it too well...
...Polk's dispatches about corruption and misrule had already embarrassed the Greek government. Within weeks of his planned return to the U.S., he confronted Foreign Minister Constantine Tsaldaris with evidence that in violation of his country's currency laws, he had transferred $25,000 to a personal bank account in New York City. The newsman then rashly promised he would broadcast the fact as soon as he got home...