Word: salonika
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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According to the Chief of Police of Salonika, Gresco, scene of the crime, George Polk "was killed by the Communists to defame Greece in U.S. eyes and end American financial assistance to that nation...
Sponsored by the Newsman's Commission to Investigate the Murder of George Polk, Polk left the United States April 5 for Salonika, Greece, the scene of the CBS correspondent's murder and the subsequent trial...
...Salonika trial attended by Major General William J. Donovan, former OSS head, Gregory Staktopoulos, journalist and onetime Communist, was convicted of complicity in the murder...
Gregory Staktapoulos, accused of the slaying of CBS correspondent George Polk, testified yesterday at the second session of the trial of Polk's alleged murderers that the journalist was shot to death in a rowboat in Salonika Bay at midnight...
William R. Polk '51, brother of the dead reporter is attending the trial in Salonika Greece...