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APPENDIX II:
THE DEMETRACOPOULOS LETTER
DOBROVIR &
GEBHARDT
SUITE 1105
1025 VERMONT AVENUE, N.W.
(202)347-8118
TELEX: 6503136357
WILLIAM A.
DOBROVIR
JOSEPH D. GEBHARDT
ROBERT L. BAUM
ROBIN A. FRADKIN
NINA JOAN KIMBALL
COUNSEL: BETH L. DON
OF COUNSEL: ELIZABETH L. NEWMAN, PC
September 3, 1987
BY MESSENGER
Dr. Henry A. Kissinger
c/o James E. Wesner, Esq.
Ginsberg, Feldman, Weil & Bress
Suite 700
1250 Connecticut Avenue, N.W.
Washington, D.C. 20036
Dear Dr. Kissinger:
You will recall correspondence I sent to you, care of
your attorney James Wesner, in 1980, concerning NSC documents
referring to Elias P. Demetracopoulos. You never replied to
those letters, in particular to the last, October 24, 1980,
letter. From what you had told us through your attorney at
that time, we were led to believe that neither you nor NSC
possessed any of the described documents. Events since then
require us to renew this matter with you.
1. Papers of Richard M.
Nixon, released in May 1987,
included John Dean files relating to Mr. Demetracopoulos, but
no NSC files, as far as we know.
2. As you know (since we sent you copies), NSC released
to us copies of computer indices showing that while you were
National Security Advisor and Chairman of the .40 committee,.
the NSC did have copies of documents relating to Mr.
Demetracopoulos. NSC informed us that the documents, if not
in the Nixon papers (as they do not seem to be), were taken by
you and presumably repose in your personal files, those files
sent to the National Archives, or those files you have
deposited in the Library of Congress but which are closed to
the public until 2001.
Dr. Henry A. Kissinger
September 3, 1987
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3. One of the NSC computer indices shows a document,
dated December 18, 1970, which refers to "Mr. Demetracopoulos
death in Athens prison." That was about the time that the
first attempts were made by the Greek dictatorship to kidnap
Mr. Demetracopoulos, then living in this country, presumably
to spirit him back to Greece to his "death in [an] Athens
prison." This has recently been documented in sworn
statements of knowledgeable Greek officials. The Senate
Select Committee on Intelligence, chaired by the late Sen.
Frank Church, began investigating the incident in connection
with its study of intelligence activities relating to Greece:
but, according to Committee sources, as reported by Seymour
Hersh in his book The Price of Power, you urged the Committee
to drop the investigation, and it did so.
4. Documents released by the CIA since 1980 refer to
briefings for then President Ford in October 1974. The
document refers to a "trace paper" about Mr. Demetracopoulos,
a "derogatory blind memo" and "the long Kissinger memo on
Elias [Demetracopoulos]," "left ...with General Skowcroft."
Copies of pertinent documents are enclosed.
You should be aware that after a great deal of
discussion, correspondence and congressional investigation,
both the FBI and then Director William Webster and the CIA
under the late Director William Casey, acknowledged that their
years of investigation turned up not a shred of .derogatory.
information about Mr. Demetracopoulos. A copy of a document
is enclosed.
We cannot help but assume that you possess
at least a
copy of "the long Kissinger memo" on Mr. Demetracopoulos, and
you may also possess copies of the "trace paper" and the
"derogatory blind memo."
Dr. Henry A. Kissinger
September 3, 1987
Page 3
We ask that, in order to complete the historical record
you provide Mr. Demetracopoulos promptly with copies of the
mentioned documents.
Sincerely yours,
William A. Dobrovir
Enclosures
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