GREEK COMMUNISTS ACCUSED OF MURDER OF U.S. JOURNALIST
(Rec. 1.30 p.m.) LONDON, Oct. 17. Four Greek Communists have been charged with the murder of the United States newspaper correspondent, George Polk, who was found dead in the sea off the Salonika coast last May with his hands and feet bound. Two of the accused—Mr Gregory Staktopoulos, a journalist of Salonika, and his mother, Mrs Anna Staktopoulos—are in custody, but the other two, Amad Mouzenides, a member of the central committee of the Greek Communist Party, and Evangelos Vasvanas, are still at large. A joint statement by the Greek Minister of Public Order and the Minister of Justice, said Polk was lured into a boat on the pretext that he was being taken to see General Markos. Mouzenides was the actual killer. Polk was shot in the back of the head and was then thrown into the water. ..
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Greymouth Evening Star, 18 October 1948, Page 6
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