The Greek site www.ekathimerini.com has turned up an interview by US Intelligence with the very young Maria Callas in November 1945. She was staying in a hotel on Times Square and was happy to share her views on the Communist uprising in her native Greece.
The report says:
Background of source: Source, age 21, born in New York City of Greek-American parents, went to Greece in 1937 and resided in that country until her return to the United States on the M/S Gripsholm on 15 October 1945. She attended public schools in New York City prior to going to Greece and studied music and language in Greece. Source is an opera singer though presently without employment. She is intelligent and appeared most cooperative when interviewed on 26 November 1945. Source did not hesitate to state that her sympathies were rightist.
She says: “The Communists in Greece are extremely well organized, are armed, and are just waiting for another opportunity to attempt to seize power. The first attempt was made in 1944 when ELAS precipitated a civil war.”
The report continues: “It was not her wish to give the impression that there was no effective opposition to the Germans by the Greeks during the occupation. In certain sections of Greece ELAS did do some good work as a resistance group but not around Athens.’
An opera singer, presently without employment…
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