He had been stationed in Athens only a few months before he was murdered outside his home on Dec. Richard Welch, a brilliant Harvard-educated classicist, was the first of four US diplomats murdered by the radical leftist organization, in a time of terror that lasted nearly three decades. “At least, we know that the people who plotted my father's death will be put away for many years.”
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“My family is realistic that what we are getting is limited satisfaction,” said Welch, who flew to Athens for the end of a nine-month trial of 19 suspected members of the leftist organization. The court found Alexandros Giotopoulos, the leader of the gang, guilty of morally instigating every murder, bomb attack, and robbery conducted by November 17 until its abrupt unraveling last year.īut the defendants escaped conviction for the first four of the group's 23 killings, including that of Richard Welch, because of a 20-year statute of limitations. Yesterday Tim Welch, a 51-year-old employee at Citibank in Chicago, heard a Greek court convict 15 people from the notorious Greek terror group November 17 in a string of murders of foreign diplomats and others over nearly three decades. Although a noncombatant, Richard Welch was buried, by order of President Ford, in Arlington National Cemetery.
ATHENS, GREECE - Twenty-eight years ago, Tim Welch accompanied the body of his father, a prominent CIA officer, on a US military transport plane to Washington.
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