Sakis Ioannidis

FOREIGN AFFAIRS Espionage case rattles military Senior officer arrested in one of country’s most serious leaks involving China and NATO A senior Air Force officer was arrested Thursday on espionage charges, accused of transmitting highly classified military information to China using specialized encrypted software, according to government and security sources.

SOCIETY The three shots that started a cycle of bloodshed Half a century ago, the CIA’s chief of station in Athens was gunned down by November 17. The conspiracy theories about the Greek terrorist group would haunt public life for almost three decades CIA station chief Richard Welch was gunned down next to his official vehicle, outside his residence, at 5 Vassilissis Freiderikis Street (today Dimokratias Street) in Palaio Psychiko. The calendar read December 23, 1975.

SOCIETY The ring of family remembrance German soldiers abducted Georgios Hanas from Kokkinia in 1944. Eighty years later, his niece washed his grave outside Hamburg with water from the sea of Piraeus Renia Kontogeorgi with the portrait of her uncle, Georgios Hanas. ‘The emotion and shock were so great that I immediately bought tickets for Hamburg,’ she said. [Nikos Kokkalias] It’s April 1944.