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...killed George Polk, and why? In the five months since the body of the CBS correspondent was found in Salonika Bay, thousands of Greek police and dozens of volunteer sleuths from the U.S. had tried to find out. They had plenty of theories, but only one substantial clue: the handwriting on the envelope in which Folk's identity card was returned to the police (TIME, July 5). This week, the clue paid...
...slick-haired Reporter Staktopoulos, 36-year-old stringer for Reuters news agency. A graduate of Communist training schools, he had been ordered to renounce the party publicly two years ago, and pose as a reformed Red. On the night of May 8, under party orders, he said, he took Polk to a waterfront restaurant in Salonika, to wait for a dory that would start the correspondent on his journey to see Guerrilla Chieftain Markos Vafiades...
...William Polk plans to fly to Greece within a month, as soon as the Newsmen's Commission to Investigate the murder of George Polk completes its drive to raise the $10,000 needed for the investigation...
...sudden announcement of the Greek polices' findings came as a surprise to Polk. "On General Donovan's return from Greece a few weeks ago, he said that the Greek police had made little progress in the case; hence this break is rather startling." General William J. Donovan has been investigating the Polk murder for the Overseas Writers Club...
...Polk was also surprised at the timing of the Greek announcement. "Friends to whom I have talked said that if the Communists had committed the murder, the government would have known about it long before this...