Abstract

Minority Report

This article presents information on the report of the National Commission on Terrorism, presented to the U.S. Congress, the week before Mehmet Al Agca was repatriated from Italy to Turkey. The most egregious padding of the evidence, in this year's report, concerns Greece. In December of 1975, in Athens, station chief of the U.S. Central Intelligence Agency (CIA), Richard Welch, was gunned down by an organization styling itself November 17. The date commemorates a massacre of students at the Athens Polytechnic in 1973, committed by soldiers of the U.S.-backed military dictatorship, a terror regime that also helped sponsor bombings and assassinations in Italy and Cyprus. Hysterical allegations were made against the Greek Socialist government, and hysterical measures--including the denial of U.S. visas to those traveling from Greece--were proposed. R. James Woolsey, the head of the CIA from 1993 to 1995,.