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

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Abstract

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 author Greece 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 th

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The Polk conspiracy: murder and cover-up in the case of CBS News correspondent George Polk

Marton, Kati

Marton, Kati

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