30 Oct 2017 11:04 pm
The other George Papadopolous and the Watergate connection.
Georgios Papadopoulos was the head of the military coup d'état that took place in Greece on 21 April 1967, and leader of the junta that ruled the country from 1967 to 1974.
Elias P. Demetracopoulos was a dissident and Greek journalist who exiled himself to Washington, where he stoked opposition to Papadopolous's military junta and to U.S. officials, including members of the Nixon administration, who supported that regime.
Demetracopoulos learned that during the 1968 election $549,000 in cash was funneled to the Nixon campaign from the KYP, the Greek intelligence agency, through a Greek American businessman (Thomas Pappas) and he said that he shared that information with Lawrence F. O’Brien, then chairman of the Democratic National Committee.
Demetracopoulos linked the alleged campaign donation to the burglary of the Democratic national headquarters at the Watergate complex in 1972, alleging that it was the administration’s desire to protect itself from revelations about the Greek connection that might well have motivated the break-in.
Georgios Papadopoulos was the head of the military coup d'état that took place in Greece on 21 April 1967, and leader of the junta that ruled the country from 1967 to 1974.
Elias P. Demetracopoulos was a dissident and Greek journalist who exiled himself to Washington, where he stoked opposition to Papadopolous's military junta and to U.S. officials, including members of the Nixon administration, who supported that regime.
Demetracopoulos learned that during the 1968 election $549,000 in cash was funneled to the Nixon campaign from the KYP, the Greek intelligence agency, through a Greek American businessman (Thomas Pappas) and he said that he shared that information with Lawrence F. O’Brien, then chairman of the Democratic National Committee.
Demetracopoulos linked the alleged campaign donation to the burglary of the Democratic national headquarters at the Watergate complex in 1972, alleging that it was the administration’s desire to protect itself from revelations about the Greek connection that might well have motivated the break-in.