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Polk as our military folk used to say in vietnam couldnt be persuaded to get with the program
It was known to his colleagues that george had travelled to the north to try and get an interview with markos vafiadis the communist leader
This was most likely done with the apparent collusion of the u
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Britain wanted greece in the western alliance to protect its shipping lanes to the suez canal
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Maybe someone will do a thorough investigation to determine what led to polks murder
Members included ernest hemingway william polk polks brother william a
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greek, american, cold, civil and communist. - Our engine has profiled the reviewer patterns and has determined that there is minimal deception involved.
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- This product had a total of 16 reviews as of our last analysis date on May 23 2021.
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It was the battle for greece that precipitated the truman doctrine the resolution of president harry truman to do whatever it took to stop the spread of communism
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Our view of the greek civil war of the late 1940sand the war itselfmight have turned out differently had george polk lived had he not been murdered in 1948 while attempting to get an interview with the insurrections leaders
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Polk as our military folk used to say in vietnam couldnt be persuaded to get with the program
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Going beyond martons account one can also deduce that the future of americas press as a watchdog on its own government would have been quite different if polks surviving colleagues in the news business had been equally as dogged in demanding the truth about his murder instead of accepting the greek governments transparent coverup story that the communists did it and allowing a pigeon to be railroaded
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At any rate until edmund keeley came along in 1989 with his scholarly account of the whitewash the salonika bay murder see amazon
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I look forward to the mel gibson movie to be made from this book and trust that this review will not lessen the prospects for that eventuality
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Harsch winston burdett and john secondari of cbs and james reston of the new york times
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I first heard about this reallife whodunit when i saw at the end of one of our tapes at home a snippet of a 1990 60 minutes that included a mike wallace interview with the satanic verses author salman rushdie followed by part of ed bradleys piece on george polk tape ran out
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