Polk Conspiracy Murder and Cover-Up in the Case of CBS News Correspondent George Polk

Other author Marton, Kati 1948-
Other author Miller, Mark Crispin
Format Electronic
Publication InfoNew York : Open Road Integrated Media, LLC La Vergne : MyiLibrary [Distributor]
Description514 p.
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Summary Annotation In war-torn Greece, the murder of a young American reporter sent a shock through the West and set the stage for the four-decade Cold War; now with a new introduction by the authorGreece in 1948 was a country reeling from two major conflicts. The Nazi occupation and World War II had left it weakened, and the Greek Civil War--already raging for two years--had torn it apart. One of the earliest clashes of the Cold War, Greece's civil dispute pitted the American-backed royalist government against the Soviet-funded Greek Communist Party. Reporting at the front lines for CBS News, George Polk drew the ire of both sides with his uncompromising and incisive coverage.In mid-May, days after going missing, Polk was found dead, shot execution style with his hands and feet bound. What transpired next was a mad scramble of finger pointing and international outrage. To appease its American backers, the Greek government quickly secured the dubious confession of a Communist journalist--though the bulk of the evidence pointed to the royalists.An influential moment in the early days of the Cold War and a powerful force in the formation of the Truman Doctrine, the Polk conspiracy was emblematic of the ideological conflict that would embroil the globe for the next forty years.
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