The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-03-22

Greek factions, to encourage them to fight against each other.
 The incident was in no way the fault of Governor Lehman or his Washington staff, since the Near East UNRRA is under a British director
 Here are the so-far-suppressed facts as to what happened. The UNRRA worker who was killed was L. F. R. Shepherd, chief of UNRRA'S Greek Missions Intel ligence Division. On the rolls he was listed as Mister" Shep- herd, but actually he was col- onel in the British Army and had been in MO-4 and Force 133.
 Col. Shepherd joined UNRRA
 right after the liberation of
 Athens, but during the whole time up until his death he was
 acting for British Intelligence, though using the American flag on his car.
 After he was killed, UNRRA of- ficials who took an inventory of property in the Colonels hotel room found receipts for huge amounts of gold sovereigns. The receipts were dated October p to Nov 29, four days before the trouble broke in Athens.
 The receipts said: "I have re- cieved from MT. L. F. R. Shep- herd a sealed bag said to contain 1000 gold sovereigns." These receipts were signed by Greek leaders of various royalist and right wing organizations. The amounts mentioned in the re- ceipts carried from 100 sovereigns to 2,000.
 U. $. FLAG HID INTRIGUE
 In other words, all during the period when Greek political fac tions were trying to work out their own problems, British Colonel, disguised as an UNRRA worker, was paying Greek Royalist fac- tions to fight the EAM-ELAS group which had done most of the guerrilla fighting against the Germans.
 After the fighting started, Col Shephred kept on stirring up trou- ble. AS an UNRRA officer, sup posedly on Q mission of mercy, he could travel freely between the British zone and the ELIAS zone. And he did. Furthermore, he did so in car draped with the American flag.
 Under cover of the American
 flag he went into ELIAS terri
 tory OstensibIy to talk about
 food distribution, but actually to
 get military information.
 When Colonel Shepherds car hit mine during the last days of the battle, it was still proudly bearing the Stars and Stripes. symbol of the land in which the Greek people have so much faith. GREEK TRAGEDY
 As early as October, 1943, one year before the Greek trouble started, thsi column told how all Greek guerrilla factions were UAOuSAC Dy G1lC oAAoAoA 0O OoAO and all voted unanimously, to- gether with the Greek Cabinet, that King George of Greece must not return until a plebiscite re- garding him had bene held by the Greek people, but that Chur- chill, ignoring this, wired King George to return to Greece at the head of his troops Also disclosed was how Churchill's own advisers warned him that trOu- ble was sure to break out If he backed the right wing ROyalists. .. . Chief ioans which the Greek government owes abroad are to the Hambro Bank of London. At one time Churchill was helped out financially by the Hambro family Most of Churchill's colleagues in the British Cabi- net have vigorously disagreed with his Greek policy, especially Foreign Minister Eden .. RoOse- welt also sent Churchill some hot adhered to in spite of doubt and dif- ficulty.
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