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George Polk's body was found floating in Salonika Bay on May 16. The corpse was bound with 30 feet of rope and had a bullet wound in the base of the skull. While serving as a Columbia Broadcasting System correspondent in Greece, Polk had been an outspoken critic of the Greek Royalist government...
...corpse of the CBS correspondent, an outspoken opponent of the Greek Loyalist government, was found floating in the Gulf of Salonika on May 16, just a few days before he was to have returned home to accept a Nieman fellowship at Harvard. His hands and feet were bound and there was a bullet hole in the back of his head...
...Salonika police claim an enviable record: since 1936, they say, not a single murder in that Greek port has gone unsolved. Six weeks ago, the body of 34-year-old CBS Correspondent George Polk was found floating in Salonika Bay, his hands & feet tied together, a bullet in his head (TIME, May 24). But by last week the police had made no arrests...
...later, Polk was shot point-blank from behind with a long-barreled gun, then tied up with 30 feet of rope. Probable scene of the crime: one of the countless coastwise vessels with which the harbor swarms. (To shoot Polk first and then drag his bleeding, trussed body through Salonika's streets could hardly have escaped notice; to lure him to a caique, and then shoot him in a below-deck cabin, would have been simpler and safer...
This week they found George Polk. His body, bound hand & foot, was found floating in the bay at Salonika. He had been shot in the back of the head...