868.00/3–448: Telegram
The Chargé in Greece (Rankin) to the Secretary of State
401. Mavrogordatos1 asked my opinion last night about current program of security arrests being undertaken here. Apparently another series of arrests are in prospect, and he hoped that we would not be alarmed. I said that I thought such arrests were quite necessary and justifiable as long as they were not of “mass” variety and as long as people were not held for considerable periods of time without trial. He assured me that there would be no “mass arrests”, that entire affair would be most carefully conducted, and that Prime Minister Sophoulis was taking responsibility for immediate release of any persons arrested who were found to be innocent.
Sent Dept 401, repeated London 40.
- Michael Mavrogordatos, Under-Secretary to Greek Prime Minister Sophoulis.↩