Ex-CIA Officer Kiriakou to Get 30-Month Sentence
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S O C V ΓΡΑΦΕΙ ΤΗΝ ΙΣΤΟΡΙΑ Bringing the news W ΤΟΥ ΕΛΛΗΝΙΣΜΟΥ to generations of E ΑΠΟ ΤΟ 1915 The National Herald Greek- Americans N c v A weekly GReek-AMeRIcAN PublIcATION www.thenationalherald.com VOL. 16, ISSUE 796 January 12-18, 2013 $1.50 Greek PM Ex-CIA Officer Kiriakou to Get 30-month Sentence Samaras Intelligence Officer Back in Leaked Colleague’s Germany Name to Reporter By Scott Shane Told Chancellor The New York Times WASHINGTON, DC – Looking Merkel Greeks back, John C. Kiriakou admits he should have known better. But Did Their Part when the F.B.I. called him a year ago and invited him to stop by By Andy Dabilis and “help us with a case,” he did TNH Staff Writer not hesitate. In his years as a C.I.A. opera - ATHENS – Returning to Berlin tive, after all, Mr. Kiriakou had for the second time since he worked closely with F.B.I. agents took office last year, Greek overseas. Just months earlier, he Prime Minister Antonis Samaras had reported to the bureau a re - told German Chancellor Angela cruiting attempt by someone he Merkel that Greeks had done believed to be an Asian spy. their part to stay in the Euro - “Anything for the F.B.I.,” Mr. zone as he gave her an update Kiriakou replied. on reform efforts his uneasy Only an hour into what began coalition government has under - as a relaxed chat with the two taken. agents — the younger one who “I would like to make clear traded Pittsburgh Steelers talk from the start that our country with him and the senior investi - is making an enormous effort, gator with the droopy eye — did which goes hand-in-hand with he begin to realize just who was great sacrifices, to get things on the target of their investigation. the right track,” he said, flanked Finally, the older agent leaned by Merkel. “We are trying to win TNH/STAVROS MARMARINOS in close and said, by Mr. Kiri - back credibility – credibility on Spring Bayou: the Scene of Theophania Rites of Tarpon Springs’ St. Nicholas Cathedral akou’s recollection, “In the inter - the part of the peoples of Eu - est of full disclosure, I should tell rope and on the part of the mar - The exuberant cross divers are poised atop (or next to) boats by Archbishop Demetrios of America. First-time diver Vassilios you that right now we’re execut - kets.” in anticipation of the Holy Cross being tossed into the waters Harding, 16, was this year’s cross retriever. ing a search warrant at your Samaras was also returning house and seizing your electronic a favor to Merkel for her visit to devices.” Athens in October, when he was On Jan. 25, Mr. Kiriakou is struggling to get a $17.45 bil - scheduled to be sentenced to 30 lion spending cut and tax hike Greek National Poet Depicts Country’s Dark Mood months in prison as part of a plea plan passed over angry opposi - deal in which he admitted vio - tion from Greeks weary of more lating the Intelligence Identities austerity measures. By Rachel Donadio metaphysical, drawing on the ‘‘The Brazen Plagiarist,’’ ap - plenty strong. As is the writer. Protection Act by e-mailing the That was a condition of con - International Herald Tribune powerful themes of time, fate peared from Yale University ‘‘My homeland is my lan - name of a covert C.I.A. officer to tinued aid from international and destiny yet making them Press, translated by Cecile guage,’’ Ms. Dimoula said. She lenders, which Merkel backed, Kiki Dimoula, Greece’s feisty entirely her own — has earned Margellos and Rika Lesser, was seated on a dark velvet sofa but only if Samaras pushed 81-year old national poet, was her a near-cult following in bringing her work into English in the elegant Athens sitting through more pay cuts, tax holding court on a recent after - Greece. for the first time in nearly two room of Ms. Margellos, a trans - hikes, and slashed pensions. The noon, musing about her work One of her Greek writer con - decades. lator and literary critic who with package narrowly passed Parlia - and the fate of her country. temporaries, Nikos Dimou, has Ms. Dimoula does not speak her husband, the Greek investor ment and opened the release of Asked to describe the mood in called Ms. Dimoula ‘‘the best English. ‘‘I was lazy,’’ she said Theodore Margellos, has en - $69 billion in loans that have Greece today, she did not mince Greek woman poet since Sap - apologetically, and is concerned dowed the Margellos Republic started to be disbursed. words. ‘‘Darkness and chaos,’’ pho,’’ and she is the first living that her Greek verbal acrobatics of Letters imprint at Yale Uni - Samaras said his government she said, drawing on a cigarette. female poet ever to be included do not translate well. In the in - versity Press. had implemented a “series of Ms. Dimoula may have a flair in the prestigious French pub - troduction to the new collection, ‘‘It is my identity, it reassures systematic measures” to “guar - for the dramatic, but her words lisher Gallimard’s poetry series. she writes that she worries me,’’ Ms. Dimoula said of her antee that we do the best possi - are always chosen carefully. Her But she has rarely been trans - ‘‘whether the bridge from one language. Around her, the walls ble to put things right, above all poetry — spare, profound, un - lated into English. language to another is sound were painted with neo-Ot - sentimental, effortlessly trans - This past autumn, a new col - enough.’’ Continued on page 9 forming the quotidian into the lection of her selected poems, The bridge, as it happens, is Continued on page 12 Dr Dimon’s Neurodynamic Concepts By Constantine S. Sirigos erhouse than Columbia Univer - from their natural states almost Ex-CIA operative TNH Staff Writer sity’s Teachers College is sup - from the start, but simple ob - John C. Kiriakou porting his endeavor. He teaches servation reinforces his points. NEW YORK – A new science a course there on the subject, He notes that young children ex - a freelance reporter, who did not that addresses some of the chal - which he calls Neurodynamics, press mind-body unity naturally, publish it. The law was passed lenges involved in educating as a new area of education, and losing the ability over time in 1982, aimed at radical publi - children and the overall well - he also gives courses at CUNY through the unconscious habits cations that deliberately sought ness of human beings merits at - Hunter College. they develop. Dimon’s knowl - to out undercover agents, expos - tention. Dr. Theodore Dimon’s When Dimon discussed his edge of psychology suggested ing their secret work and endan - ideas, which are founded on the ideas with TNH, he touched that the only way to address un - gering their lives. premise that learning is not just upon what he learned from conscious habits of thought and In more than six decades of an affair of the brain but of the studying the Alexander Tech - behavior is to become conscious fraught interaction between the entire organism, and on the es - nique and meditation mindful - of what is going on in the body agency and the news media, sential unity of the mind and ness practices, but he has pro - and the mind. To be really John Kiriakou is the first current body, are connected to age-old gressed beyond them through mindful, conscious “fundamen - or former C.I.A. officer to be con - Greek wisdom transmitted to his studies in physiology, neu - tal knowledge of how the motor victed of disclosing classified in - him by his father and grandfa - rophysiology, and anatomy– he system works is required.” formation to a reporter. ther. has written three books on He conveys that knowledge Mr. Kiriakou, 48, earned nu - The Dimon Institute, which anatomy . to adults in his private practice, merous commendations in he established on Manhattan’s His contribution is to develop but his big mission is to train nearly 15 years at the C.I.A., Upper West Side, “is dedicated a means for having the obvious teachers to work with young some of which were spent un - to teaching and promulgating a benefits from the above carry children. The path Dimon has dercover overseas chasing Al Historic Pilgrimage to St. Nicholas in Havana new vision in education based over into the other activities of chosen is a noble but difficult Qaeda and other terrorist on a practical understanding of modern life, where “Ultimately one, to work on incorporating groups. He led the team in 2002 More than 80 Archons and others journeyed to Havana to visit man’s unique psychophysical people just get lost in their his discoveries into the way we that found Abu Zubaydah, a ter - Saint Nicholas Greek Orthodox Cathedral in December. One of design and how it works in ac - work.” educate our children. But for rorist logistics specialist for Al the trip’s most joyous moments was the baptism of five Cubans tivity.” He is not the first to suggest in the Cathedral’s baptistery (above). Story on page 2. No less an educational pow - civilization drives humans away Continued on page 4 Continued on page 6 At 66 Years of Marriage, a Tsipras Will Look at Liar and the Lady Visit the U.S. By Harry Mark Petrakis had bloomed. She had become Next Week shapely and taller, her face On September 30th of this adorned by her great black eyes, year, my wife Diana and I had her raven-black hair tumbling TNH Staff been married for 66 years.