er

Hon. Mitchell Sharp,
Mister of External Affairs,
Ouse of Commons,

ttawa, Ontario.
ear Sir:

N90 is dangerously ill.

Seat danger,

th
Nternational.

ere well-known Greek writer and patriot, George Morai-
f Biesoned by the Military Junta in the Averof Prison
. thens, Greece, has appealed to the democratic world

Ntervene on behalf of a fellow prisoner, Argyris Baras,

seatayeis Baras' health has been ruined as a result of the
Pes torture he has suffered at the hands of his
suff, His body is like pulp due to the beatings he has
: ted. His chest smashed, he suffers from suffocation
€ to coughing spells and hemorrhages. His life is in

hee to the Government of our country to intervene
aly e Greek government to demand that Mr. Baras be
En all the medical treatment needed to save his life.
hae ask also that the Canadian government insist that an
Re seonal Red Cross doctor be allowed to visit and
4 pee Mr. Baras and that X-rays of his chest be sent to
Uropean Commission of Human Rights and Amnesty

“s onfident that you will use your good offices to inter-
© in this just and humane cause,

Alf Dewhurst
Communist Party of Canada.

—
: Nazis train

Ho PS
Wester military brasshats of

“i countries are being in-
llligg’ bY former Hitlerite in-
to puce service heads on how
ies pe War on their own peo-
a ;
Gemacent issue of Democratic
Rania Report:
regular 88 British officers are
“Outseg Students at special
y on “fighting the internal
Tan oe by the .West Ger-
Bee ¢ deswehr at its “Intelli-
Ollege,” according to re-

Ports

Tea, from reliable sources
ching Berlin

e ome
Cla Curriculum for these spe-
lot utses includes such _sub-
M Methods of Countering
Pepe ations,” “Basic
Bs . Mass Psychology,”
“Dit el°Bical Warfare” and
Ptiods » and Regional Tension

Course

agers of the Greek fascist
‘'endeg Nd U.S. officers also at-
W ich € first such course,
Bun ercned on June 9. The
is Situat ehr Intelligence College
R Ba ao at Kemmenauer Weg
Shige Ems, West. Germany;

“lone rector is Bundeswehr

atteng 82 Officers nominated to
all caret €se special courses are
Ficers ully screened by former
Xow yo the nazi Wehrmacht
| Uiltary ne as West German
Athens attaches in London,
Nest a. Washington. The
ty aon military attache
dy : 0n, Colonel
Renee eee has a long intelli-
Neleng Ord. From 1941 until
| ctor Of the war he was in-
tty ‘ With the rank of major
tllege Main nazi military spy
*aSchu the “Heeres-Nachrich-
A ; Spi I” There he trained
Rigg a and fifth columnists.
teh €tails of his activities
z Satich” but he must have giv-
445, ene because in early
ris a Only the staunchest
“tion he Winning military pro-
CUte,, © Went up in rank to
, a colonel.
itligencs of the Bundeswehr
Ring Se College, General
*etswan Chumacher, served a
ebyeat prison term as
‘ fst ey. :

described in this article”

Joachim ©

West brass

low to deal with mob’

a nazi terrorist. After a career
as a successful Luftwaffe pilot
—18 raids on London in 1940,
dozens of raids.on Malta, decor-
ated with the Iron Cross First
and Second- Class and the Ger-
man Cross in Gold — he was
captured by the Red Army in
Rumania in August 1944. Escap-
ing from POW camp in Rumania,
he organized a “Werewolf” ter-
rorist group composed of Ruma-
nian fascists and German SS
men which operated behind the
Red Army front. When recaptur-
ed he was sentenced to 10 years
by a Soviet Military Court as a
nazi terrorist. On his release in
1956 he was immediately re-
activated as a Bundeswehr
colonel.

New Siberia
University.

To the two scientific centres
of the Siberian branch of the
U.S.S.R. Academy of Sciences
—physics, and forestry and tim-
ber — in Krasnoyarsk, another
four are being added: chem-
istry, mathematics, optics and
spectroscopy, and biology. A
large research centre — labora-
tory of strong magnetic fields
is being built on the banks of
Yenisei.

The specialists for the new
scientific centre in Siberia will
be trained at the newly created
Krasnoyarsk University, with
4,500 students.

Instruction began this year at
four faculties of the University
—biology, chemistry, physics,
mechanics and mathematics. It
is planned later to open a facul-
ty of economics with instruc-
tion in two specialties—mathe-
matical cybernetics and plan-
ning of the economy.

A university complex, includ-
ing laboratories, dormitories,
gym halls and swimming pool,
is being built in the centre of
Krasnoyarsk, where the Kacha
River flows into the Yenisei.

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Prevent murder of G
ASK OTTAWA TO ACT

On July 3 the Greek writer
George Moraitis, imprisoned in
notorious Averof Prison in Ath-

-ens for opposing the Military

Junta, wrote an appeal to save
the life of another inmate Argy-
ris Baras. That cry to the con-
science of humanity did not
reach the outside world until the
end of September. Moraitis
called on democratic organiza-
tion and people to:

e DEMAND that Baras be giv-
en all the medical treatment
needed the save his life.

e DEMAND that an Interna-
tional Red Cross doctor visit and
examine him. He demanded that
the chest X-ray of Baras be sent
to the European Commission of
Human Rights and to be Am-
nesty International.

Argyris Barras, who in May
1969 was sentenced to life im-
prisonment by the Salonica Mili-
tary Court for - his activity
against the Military Junta, sent
the following statement to the
Council of Europe and interna-
tional organizations:

“On May 9, 1968 at 2.30 in the
morning, Major Michalis Kour-
koulakos of the Greek Intelli-
gence Service, Lieutenant Tetra-
dakos and the non-commission-
ed officer, Vasilis Karamitsos, of
the Salonica Security Police,
stopped a car outside Katerinis
about 100 yards from the toll
gate. This was Costas Meletis’
car and he and his fiancee Geor-
gia Pangopoulou, Vasilis Masto-
ras and the United Democratic
Left (EDA) deputy, George Tsa-
rouchas, were in it, and were all
arrested. :

“The Security and Intelligence
officers transferred them to an-
other vehicle and took them to
the Third Army Corps, .where
George Tsarouchas was inhu-
manly tortured. He died the
same morning.

“They also put Vasilis Mas-
toras through the “falanga” tor-
ture (beating on the soles of
the feet) even though he was a
sick man, with only one lung.
Then they locked him up in soli-
tary in one of the Security cells
not fit, even for animals for 50
days:

©

“Only a short time after the
arrest of George Tsarouchas, at
5 o'clock in the morning of the
same days, security police agent
and army officers surrounded the
house, at 46 Gravias, in Salonica
where I was staying with my
friend Mazelis and arrested us.
Security police invaded our flat

like gangsters and began hitting

us madly with their pistols,
thumping us with their fists and
covered us both with blankets
so that we could not see and
they pushed us into a car. On
the way, they hit me on the

head with a hard object and I*

lost consciousness; when I came
round, I realized I was in a cell
at the Third Army Corps. I could
hear someone screaming and
groaning nearby. I do not know
whether this was from people
they were torturing or whether
is was a tape record which they
put on to break my nerves.
“After a while, the murderous.
torturers fell into my cell. with
Major Kourkoulakos at their
head. He was holding a whip
with wires at the end. Lieut.
Tetradakos, a boxer named Vasi-
lis; who is one of the Security’s
drivers, and three others in mili-
tary uniform were also ‘there.
One of them was holding a me-
tal rod and the other a -pick
handle.
“The interrogation began with
Intelligence Major Kourkoulakos
saying: ‘Baras, we want you to
make a statement of repentance;
to denounce the Communist Par-

isa Sas i Vass Pageve OA

tal od

SIL

BASQUE HERO
FACES DEATH

Dolores Ibarruri, a leader
of the Communist Party of
Spain and known to many
millions as La Pasionaria,
sent a telegram “‘as a moth-
er, a Basque woman and
fighter for freedom” to the
Spanish authorities calling
for action to halt the execu-
tion of Antonio Arrizabala-
ga, sentenced by a military
court.

The Communist Party of
Spain has called for world
protests and proclaimed its
full solidarity with the strug-
gle of Basque patriots and
revolutionaries for the free-
dom of the land of the
Basques (Euzkadi) which is
an integral part of the free-
dom struggle of all the peo-
ples of Spain. ;

ty: of Greece, agree that you
were at the blowing up of the
electricity pylon at the Salonica
Exhibition in 1967,-and give us
the addresses of the houses in
Salonica and the Macedonian
area where you and your colla-
borators have been hiding dur-
ing the past thirteen months. If
you do not do this, then we will
torture and kill you.. If you do,
then we will release you imme-
diately and, at the same time,

give you any position you like.

We will make you major of Ka-
lamarias or whatever you want.’

“To this I replied: ‘I have noth-
ing to discuss with the fascist
junta which has committed a
crime against the people and
against democracy. Communists
love their party and not only do
they not betray it, they are ready
to die for it.’

e

“After this he was silent. Then
the murderers fell on me in rage.
They bound my hands, laid me
face downwards on the cement
floor and began ‘falanga,’ beat-
ing me on the soles of my feet,

with whips and iron rods. When

they grew tired of beating me on
the feet, they began beating me
on the rest of my body. They
broke my ribs and beat me, inch
by inch, over the whole of my
body, so that I was cut to pieces.

“I lost consciousness but they

The Pentagon's preparations
for chemical and biological
warfare are arousing growing
indignation and protests every-
where. To muffle these protests,

-Washington ‘ affirms that the

preparations are of a purely
“defensive” nature. ae

Actually, however, the Penta-
gon is not only preparing for
chemical and biological. war
but is inducing others to do so.

~The New York Post reported on

Oct. 25 that “the army is in-
structing foreign specialists in
chemical and biological war-
fare.” :
“Altogether 550 officers of
different countries are under-
going training at the army
school at Fort Mclellan, Ala-

Th | eco aT DO OP 8T eT YO TTT

reek patriot!

threw water over me to bring
me round and then started again.
I lost consciousness again twice-
after blood had poured from me.
At one moment, I heard the mili-
tary doctor saying they must
send me to hospital immediately
or I would die.

“I asked for water but instead
they brought a lavatory brush
and covered my face in filth.

“Then they took me from the
Third Army to the Salonica Se-
curity. I was in bed for four
months during which I could
not move. I had to be taken
everywhere on a stretcher or
carried. The coughing and blood,
resulting from the inhuman tor-

tures, has not stopped even now. :

My lungs are a mass of blood.

“In the Security I was tortur-
ed by the men at’ whose hands
the young man, Giannis Chalki-
dis and-the former deputy,
George Tsarouchas, died. When
I was taken to the 424 Military
Hospital, I was in such a state
that officers said, in front of me,
that I looked as if I had been
run over by a car. Gendarme of-
ficers Frangoulis and Kolovos
said: ‘If we had been through
just one third of what you have,
we would have been dead by
now.’

“J must add that the attitude
of certain of the military doctors
at the hospital and especially of
Lt. Col. Vletsos who put my
broken arm in plaster, was cow-
ardly and inhuman and they be-
haved like the torturers.

“From the hospital, I was
taken again to the. Security
where I was transferred to the
Eptapyrgon Prisons (Salonica)
until my trial on May 14. There
I was not allowed to communi-
cate with relatives or defence
council. SP ae

“This then is the drama en-
dured by one who refused to
bow to the fascist Junta, and -
refused to renounce his convic-
tions. ‘

“I denounced my ~ torturers

and the fascist military dictator-
ship which the colonels imposed
on our country with the tanks
from Washington and NATO.

“T repeat my denunciations to
the Council of Europe and Inter-
national bodies and Organiza-
tions, in the hope that you will
raise a voice of protest against
the fascist regime in our coun-

-try and, together with all honest

people, demand the.cessation of
the tortures and respect for hu-
man rights.” BES

bama. The courses ‘last from
two to 36«weeks, and the more
promising the trainees, the

longer the course. The basic ~

course deals with “defense”
against CB weapons, but actu-
ally the trainees learn not only
the properties of the poison
gases but how to use them
and which of them are most
effective in the given condi-
tions.

Britishers, Australians and
Canadians, it turns out, are
also being trained in the tech-
nique of chemical and biologi-
cal warfare at the top-secret
training grounds in Utah,

‘where, among other things,

nerve gases are tested o
animals. —New Times.

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