RELEASE OF EXILES

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP82-00457R009500270006-6
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: S
• Document Page Count: 2
• Document Creation Date: November 16, 2016
• Document Release Date: April 25, 2000
• Sequence Number: 6
• Publication Date: December 13, 1951
• Content Type: REPORT

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CErITRAL' INTELLIGENCE AGENCY
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6. The local Police Directorates and Gendarmerie Commands shall
report to us, according to their respective competence, con.
cerning the return of those who have been released ffrom exile
and at the aenme time they shall give instructions for the sur.-
veillance of such persons.
C. Rendis"
2 The above order was also distributed to the followings
High Commend of the Gendarmerie and of the City Police
General Directorate of the City Police
Inspectorates of Gendrmerie
Police Directorates
Higher Gendarmerie Commands:
Sub -Directorates of General Security City Police
Commands of the State Gendarmerie
Section of National Security in the N.nistrY of the Interior
3 , At 2 sOO p.m. on 6 November 1951, Rendis ordered ? jor Kranis, Section Chief
of the Displaced Persons Office of the Ministry of the Interior, to Aghios
Efstratios to bring tack succepsful EDA candidates in exile'. They were
returned secretly to Athens of 9 November 1951, to avoid Em organized
reception or demonstration.1
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NEEPomm,ents contrary to newspaper reiorts, the order does not
relee-se large numbers of exiles; the order affects persons who are
being held Illegally. A typical case in point is the one involving
five persons acquitted by a Military Court Martial in Patras, and
Imediately picked up by the police and without further ado dim.
patched to Aghios Efstratioa in exile. This case spurred the Minister
to issue the above order.
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