Volume 38, Number 15 · September 26, 1991
Casualty of the Cold War
By Ronald Steel
The Polk Conspiracy: Murder and Cover-up in the Case of CBS News Correspondent George Polk
by Kati Marton
Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 369 pp., $22.95
To some men it is given to have mythic lives; to others mythic deaths. George Polk is one of the latter. In life he was a little-known American journalist who reported from a remote outpost of the cold war empire. Since the discovery of his murder in Greece in 1948 he has become a symbol of courage in the face of intimidation, of truth subverted by power and justice by expediency. Although he died more than forty years ago, the manner of his death and the reasons for it, the identity of his killers, and the degree of complicity of those in high places—these are still unknown.
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