S o C V ΓΡΑΦΕΙ ΤΗΝ ΙΣΤΟΡΙΑ nd W ΤΟΥ ΕΛΛΗΝΙΣΜΟΥ E ΑΠΟ ΤΟ 1915 The National Herald 10 2 N anniversa ry www.thenationalherald.com A weekLy Greek-AmericAn PubLicAtion 1915-2017 VOL. 20, ISSUE 1024 May 27 - June 2, 2017 c v $1.50 Kiriakou Archbishop Visits Fire Talks to Damaged Church of TNH about the Transfiguration Latest Book By Demetris Tsakas by the damage, are determined to rebuild an even better church. CORONA – Archbishop After Demetrios viewed the By Eleni Sakellis Demetrios of America on the af - church, Anastasiou showed him ternoon of May 21 visited the the artoforion, the Holy Gospel John Kiriakou’s first book, fire-damaged Church of the and other books, the anointing Reluctant Spy: My Secret Life in Transfiguration of the Savior in oil and the relic of St. Nektarios, the CIA's War on Terror, written Corona, Queens and viewed the the reliquary with the ashes of with Michael Ruby, was pub - immense damage. the remains of St. Matrona and lished in 2012. A first-person ac - The archbishop was accom - St. Artemius, and other objects count of the covert agent's two- panied by Transfiguration’s Fr. that were saved from the fire. decade career in the CIA, the George Anastasiou, Philopto - Demetrios urged Anastasiou book describes his role in the chos Society President Eleni and the community leaders to capture of senior Al-Qaida ter - Katehis, Treasurer Peter Pallas, keep all of those remnants and rorists and offers insight into the Kelly Pappas, and other mem - create a museum. Anastasiou debate about interrogation tech - bers of the parish. Consul Gen - expressed his thanks to the niques used in Afghanistan and eral of Cyprus, Ambassador priests of all the communities the Iraq War. Vasilios Philippou also attended. who conveyed their readiness to Kiriakou, whose family is As The National Herald pre - help and offered their churches from Rhodes, spent the first viously wrote, the fire was re - to the community for the fulfill - eight years of his career in the ported at noon on May 19, pre - ment of the mysteries. CIA as a Middle East analyst sumably beginning at the Demetrios told TNH that specializing on Iraq. He main - Church’s northeastern point of “this is the third church that was tained a Top Secret/Sensitive the church and spreading to the faced with fire in a short space Compartmented Information se - sanctuary. At press time, the fi - of time. We had St. Demetrios curity clearance. He learned nal report of the fire’s cause was in Merrick, followed by St. Arabic and was assigned to the pending. Nicholas in West Babylon, and American Embassy in Bahrain. Ahepans Continue Proud Tradition Although the crews managed now the Transfiguration Church. He eventually became CIA's Di - to clean up the debris from the It is a very sad and tragic pic - rectorate of Operations and was AHEPA Supreme President Andrew Zachariades, accompanied by Colonel Nicholas P. Vamvakias temple, the smell of smoke was ture, because the damaged a counter-terrorism operations (US Army ret.), past supreme treasurer, laid a wreath at the Tomb of the Unknowns, Arlington still intense. The executives and officer and worked on Eurocom - National Cemetery. The ceremony is an AHEPA tradition since 1949. the parishioners, though upset Continued on page 4 munist terrorism. Kiriakou was named Chief of Counterterrorist Operations in Pakistan. In that position, he led a series of military raids on al- No Eurozone Debt Deal for SYRIZA Qaeda safehouses, capturing dozens of al-Qaeda fighters. Kiriakou claims to have led a TNH Staff hope for Tsipras is a June meet - tations for a debt deal now raid that captured Abu Zubay - ing. Eurozone President Jeroen adding that it might not happen dah, then thought to be al- ATHENS – Prime Minister Dijsselbloem said that while until 2018, when the bailouts Qaeda’s third-ranking official. Alexis Tsipras’ hopes – and de - Greece has made “huge run out and before more aus - After all of this John Kiriakou mands – for debt relief after progress” that some promised terity and taxes on low-income was sent to prison, serving a agreeing to more harsh austerity reforms remain undone and the families is imposed as Tsipras thirty-month sentence for expos - measures as part of a third lenders weren’t satisfied yet. agreed. ing the CIA’s use of torture on bailout, this one for 86 billion The Troika also wants the In - Schaeuble said Germany will al-Qaeda prisoners. euros ($96.71 billion) has been ternational Monetary Fund not go along with more money Doing Time Like A Spy: How pushed back to June, undermin - (IMF), which took part in two or debt relief for Greece without ing his plans. first bailouts of 240 billion euros the IMF taking part in a deal Continued on page 6 The Radical Left SYRIZA ($269.9 billion) but has stayed and only after 2018. leader had insisted on the Troika out of the third until yet more “Midterm debt relief mea - of the European Union-Euro - brutal measures are imposed, sures are already in effect. The pean Central Bank-European and a debt deal too, to come on next measures will be decided Stability Mechanism (EU-ECB- board. after the end of the program,” AHEPA ESM) giving Greece some form Squashing Tsipras again was Schaeuble said before the meet - of a debt break from 326 billion German Finance Minister Wolf - ing, adding that debt relief for AP Photo/Lefteris PitArAkis euros ($366.61 billion) in three gang Schaeuble, whose country Greece will need special ap - Patr. Bartholomew Meets Greek Pres. Pavlopoulos Sunday at rescue packages after reneging is putting up the bulk of the proval by Germany’s Parliament. on anti-austerity promises saw loans but demanded big pay The EU’s Economic Affairs His All-Holiness Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew I, right, Holy Trinity his popularity plummet to as cuts, tax hikes, slashed pensions, Commissioner Pierre Moscovici the spiritual leader of the world's Orthodox Christians, met low as 10 percent. worker firings and privatizations had predicted a deal would be with Greece's President Prokopios Pavlopoulos at the Patriar - No deal was reached at the in return. struck but was proved wrong chate in Constantinople. Pavlopoulos is attending the 25th An - TNH Staff meeting of Eurozone finance Earlier in the day Dijssel - niversary Summit of the Organization of the Black Sea Eco - chiefs in Brussels and the next bloem dampened Greek expec - Continued on page 9 nomic Cooperation. NEW ROCHELLE, NY – AHEPA New Rochelle “James Plevritis and Joseph C. Keane Chapter 405” commemorated the mem - ory of the pioneers who founded Greeks Are 3rd in Overstaying Visas DHS Says Kathimerini the chapter with a special memorial service at Holy Trinity Church in New Rochelle, NY on TNH Staff United States in 2016 compared Interviews May 21. The event reaffirmed to 71,430 on 2015. the dedication of the leadership WASHINGTON, DC – The U.S. This year’s report also in - Diamataris and members to the founders Department of Homeland Secu - cludes visitors who entered on and initiators of Chapter 405. rity (DHS) released the Fiscal a student or exchange visitor The ceremony moved many Year (FY) 2016 Entry/Exit Over - visa (F, M, or J visa). Of the TNH Staff among the leaders and mem - stay Report. The report provides 1,457,556 students and ex - bers of the organization and the data on departures and over - change visitors scheduled to For 102 years the National Holy Trinity community as 32 stays, by country, for foreign vis - complete their program in the Herald – now the only daily members of AHEPA were re - itors to the United States who United States in FY16, 79,818 Greek-language newspaper oper - membered for their longstand - entered as nonimmigrant visi - stayed beyond their authorized ating outside of Greece – has ing contributions to the Greek- tors through an air or sea Port window for departure, resulting been the voice and “Gospel” of American community and the of Entry (POE) and were ex - in a 5.48 percent overstay rate. the Greek-American community, community at large. pected to depart in FY16. Of the 79,818, 40,949 are sus - providing critical news about the Chapter President Joseph C. The table below provides a pected in-country overstays community but also from Greece, Keane, who has led Chapter 405 high-level summary of the coun - (2.81 percent). and pointed commentary about try-by-country data identified in 3,977 0r 2.39% of the Total the mutual roles, and as the pa - Continued on page 2 the following tables. Overstay Rate were Greek stu - per of record. Overstay rate for nonimmi - dents. Kathimerini, Greece’s most grant Greek visitors admitted to The in-scope population for prestigious newspaper, showed the United States for business this report includes temporary that history and background and For subscription: or pleasure (WB/WT/B-1/B-2) workers and families (tempo - its significance in an interview 718.784.5255 AP Photo/Petros GiAnnAkouris via air and sea for 2016 is rary workers and trainees, in - with the Herald’s Publisher-Edi - [email protected] Protests Continue, More Austerity on the Way 2.19%, surpassed only by Hun - tracompany transferees, treaty tor Antonis H. Diamataris, who garians (2.75%) and Portuguese traders and investors, represen - spoke of Hellenes, the Church, Greek Finance Minister Euclid Tsakalotos, left, and Prime Min - (2,42%). tatives of foreign information the need for closer cooperation ister Alexis Tsipras react during a parliamentary session to Moreover, figures reveal that media), students, exchange vis - with Greece and politics, Greek- vote more austerity measures as part of an agreement with in - about six more thousand Greeks ternational bailout creditors, in Athens.