Summary of AG-047 United Nations Commission for the Investigation of Greek Frontier Incidents (1947) Title United Nations Commission for the Investigation of Greek Frontier Incidents (1947) Active Dates 1919-1954 Administrative History The task of the United Nations Commission for Investigation of Greek Frontier Incidents was to ascertain facts of incidents and to make proposals for the prevention of border incidents between Greece, Albania, Bulgaria, and Yugoslavia. It was established in January 1947, and ended in September 1947. Scope and Content Records, 1946-1947, include correspondence; cables; working papers; reports; minutes, lists of delegates, governmental liaison representatives, and accredited correspondents to the Commission; correspondence logbooks; and publications and maps that were used for background data. These concern the organization of the Commission, including personnel matters, political matters, and investigations. Included is the investigation of the United Nations Committee of Experts into the case of Messrs. Zervas, Petsas, and Voltadoros, and an investigation trip to visit General Markos, Commander and Chief of the Ardartes and the Shole of Greece. Correspondents include the United Nations Headquarters, United Nations Relief and Rehabilitation Administration, and governments and government representatives of Albania, Brazil, Belgium, Bulgaria, China, Colombia, France, Greece, Poland, Syria, the United Kingdom, the United States, the Soviet Union, and Yugoslavia. Also included are some cables, correspondence, General Assembly and Security Council documents, press releases, and printed material, 1941-1947, the earliest of which was used as background material, of Stanley Ryan, Press Officer of the Commission. Fonds consist of the following Series: S-0698 Subject Files - United Nations Military Observers in Greece (UNMOG) S-0697 Administrative Files - United Nations Special Committee on the Balkans (UNSCOB) S-0663 Working Files S-0649 Subject Files S-0648 Correspondence Files S-0462 Records of the Investigation Collection Inventory S-0462 Records of the Investigation 1928-1951 Scope and Content Series contains the following group of records: (a) Non-Registry Files: organization, Personnel, cables and correspondence, correspondence with Governments and representatives; hearings before the Commission; Investigations; Background data and reference material (b) Working files of Stanley Ryan [Press Officer]: background data and reference material (c) UN Special Committee on the Balkans [UNSCOB] Non-Registry Files; (d) UN Military Observers in Greece [UNMOG] Non-Registry Files. S-0648 Correspondence Files 1946-1947 Scope and Content United Nations Commission for Investigation of Greek Frontier Incidents Series consists of correspondence, incoming and outgoing cables, resolutions, lists, photographs, handwritten notes, and statements. Subjects include but are not limited to the following: resolutions to form the committee; lists of refugees; list of diplomatic corps in Athens; statements made for UN to support the formation of the Commission to investigate incidents along the Greek frontier. Correspondents include R. Harpignies, Principal Secretary; Major General Lowell W. Rooks, Director-General of UNRRA; A. Sobolev, Assistant Secretary-General in Charge of Secretary Council Affairs; Andrew Cordier; Trygve Lie; and V. Dendramis, Ambassador, Permanent Representative of Greece. Date Date Security Scanned Box Folder Title Created Closed Level Items S- Correspondence Files 02/01/1947 29/10/1947 0648- 0001 S-0648- Cables and Correspondence - Cables and 30/01/1947 14/05/1947 No 0001-01 Correspondence 2 Log Books S-0648- Cables and Correspondence - Cables - 21/01/1947 23/05/1947 No 0001-02 Incoming From United Nations Headquarters, New York and Other United Nations Offices S-0648- Cables and Correspondence - Cables - 23/05/1947 29/10/1947 No 0001-03 Incoming From United Nations Headquarters, New York and Other United Nations Offices S-0648- Cables and Correspondence - Cables - 09/06/1947 13/09/1947 No 0001-04 Outgoing to United Nations Headquarters, New York S-0648- Cables and Correspondence - Cables - 26/05/1947 29/09/1947 No 0001-05 Outgoing to United Nations Headquarters, New York, Administrative and Finance S-0648- Cables and Correspondence - Cables - 07/06/1947 27/10/1947 No 0001-06 Outgoing to United Nations Headquarters, New York, Personnel S-0648- Cables and Correspondence - Cables - 25/05/1947 17/09/1947 No 0001-07 Outgoing to United Nations Headquarters, New York, Press S-0648- Cables and Correspondence and Working 20/01/1947 27/05/1947 No 0001-08 Papers S-0648- Correspondence with United Nations Relief and 02/01/1947 30/08/1947 No 0001-09 Rehabilitation Administration (UNRRA) S- Correspondence Files 20/12/1946 24/12/1947 0648- 0002 S-0648- Governments and Representatives - Albania 20/12/1946 25/07/1947 No 0002-01 S-0648- Governments and Representatives - Australia 23/12/1946 02/05/1947 No 0002-02 S-0648- Governments and Representatives - Brazil 31/12/1946 02/01/1947 No 0002-03 S-0648- Governments and Representatives - Belgium 14/05/1947 24/12/1947 No 0002-04 S-0648- Governments and Representatives - Bulgaria 20/12/1946 06/05/1947 No 0002-05 S-0648- Governments and Representatives - China 31/12/1946 26/11/1947 No 0002-06 S-0648- Governments and Representatives - Colombia 31/12/1946 17/07/1947 No 0002-07 S-0648- Governments and Representatives - France 20/12/1946 22/05/1947 No 0002-08 S-0648- Governments and Representatives - Greece 20/12/1946 12/02/1947 No 0002-09 S-0648- Governments and Representatives - Greece 13/02/1947 13/03/1947 No 0002-10 S-0648- Governments and Representatives - Greece 14/03/1947 14/03/1947 No 0002-11 S- Correspondence Files 01/01/1946 20/08/1947 0648- 0003 S-0648- Governments and Representatives - Poland 20/12/1946 31/07/1947 No 0003-01 S-0648- Governments and Representatives - Syria 20/12/1946 22/07/1947 No 0003-02 S-0648- Governments and Representatives - United 20/12/1946 20/08/1947 No 0003-03 Kingdom S-0648- Governments and Representatives - Union of 20/12/1946 26/02/1947 No 0003-04 Soviet Socialist Republics S-0648- Governments and Representatives - United 20/12/1946 27/06/1947 No 0003-05 States of America S-0648- Governments and Representatives - Yugoslavia 20/12/1946 07/07/1947 No 0003-06 S-0648- Governments and Representatives - List of the 01/01/1946 31/12/1946 No 0003-07 Diplomatic Corps in Athens S-0649 Subject Files 1941-1949 Scope and Content United Nations Commission for Investigation of Greek Frontier Incidents Series consists of correspondence, memoranda, hearings, resolutions, lists, newsclippings, maps, photographs, press bulletins, drafts of reports, handwritten notes, speeches, and brochures. Subjects include but are not limited to the following: requests for hearing before the commission; information presented by the Political Coalition of the parties of the EAM; list of assasinated democratic citizens; statements made by the Bulgarian Government regarding the Greek Complaint before the Secretary Council of the United Nations Organization; investigation trip made by the commission to visit General Markos, Commander-in-Chief of the Ardartes and the Shole of Greece; albums of photographs of the incidents in Greece; death sentances; and original statements made by Greek Witnesses and presented to the UN council. Correspondents include A.R. Lund, Secretary-General of the Commission of Investigation Concerning Greek Frontier Incidents; Mr. Kyrou, Liason Officer of the Greek Government; General K. Tavoularis, President of the Society of the Laconians; Audrey Blake, National Secretary; and Spyridon Dontas, Rector of the University of Athens. Date Date Security Scanned Box Folder Title Created Closed Level Items S- Subject Files 11/09/1944 31/12/1946 0649- 0001 S-0649- Background Data and Reference Material - 01/01/1946 31/12/1946 No 0001-01 Album of Atrocities - 1941 S-0649- Background Data and Reference Material - 01/01/1946 31/12/1946 No 0001-02 Album of Atrocities - 1941 S-0649- Background Data and Reference Material - 11/09/1944 31/12/1944 No 0001-03 Album of Atrocities - Album Containing Pictures of Some Hostages Detained in Yugoslavia S- Subject Files 01/01/1941 31/12/1944 0649- 0002 S-0649- Background and Reference Material - Album of 01/01/1941 31/12/1941 No 0002-01 Atrocities - 1941 (Not Full) S-0649- Background Data and Reference Material - 01/01/1943 31/12/1944 No 0002-02 Album of Atrocities - To Investigation Committee of the UNO, in Memory of the Victims who Suffered Cruel Death at the Hands of the Eamaslava - Communists in the Province of Pieria S- Subject Files 01/01/1944 31/12/1947 0649- 0003 S-0649- Background Data and reference Material - 01/01/1944 31/12/1947 No 0003-01 Gunsight S- Subject Files 01/01/1944 31/12/1947 0649- 0004 S-0649- Background Data and Reference Material - 26/11/1946 19/12/1946 No 0004-01 Background Information on the Four Countries S-0649- Background Data and Reference Material - 20/05/1946 20/05/1946 No 0004-02 Contemporary Bulgarian People S-0649- Background Data and Reference Material - 01/01/1946 31/12/1946 No 0004-03 Evros Islands - Incidents on the Greek Frontier S-0649- Background Data and Reference Material - 01/01/1944 31/12/1947 No 0004-04 Evros Islands - The Hope of the National Resistance of the Greek People S-0649- Background Data and Reference Material - The 26/10/1944 26/10/1944 No 0004-05 People Reclaim Liberty S-0649- Background Data and Reference Material - 22/02/1946 25/01/1947 No 0004-06 Press Reports