I have tried to limit the collection to approximately 200 subject terms. This forced a single category to cover many related topics. Thus “King” includes not only the documents about King George, but about the royal family, they monarchy in general, and royalists. This simplifies searches but may seem overly complicated to learn.

Other subject matter/naming conventions are:

1. Whenever a document refers to “communists” or “communist anarchists,” etc, I used KKE as the subject.

2. I tried to avoid the use of “left” or “right” thus groupings on the extreme right were tagged as “nationalists.”

3. British was used as a tag when a document involves British policy. “England,” “Britain”, “Great Britain,” and “United Kingdom” were avoided.

4. I have used the term “EAM-ELAS’ throughout the naming of tagging of the collection, even for documents that referred just to ELAS or just to EAM, or EAM-ELAS was used even after ELAS was disbanded after Varkiza.

5. “Nazis” was avoided; German acts of extreme violence were tagged as “German Atrocities.” Massacres is not used.

6. I have used “Varkiza”, “Dekembriana,” “Army Mutiny,” and “Naval Mutiny,” as broad categories.

7. I have used “USSR” as a tag, while the US intelligence documents invariably refers to “Russians,” or “Russia.” “Soviet” is only used as part of the phrase “Soviet Mission.”

8. “Police” is used to describe the actions of any kind of police, whether gendarmes, rural police, security police, etc.

These are the currently used subjects with their frequency of use.

AKE (60, 20)

Agriculture, (155, 75) tobacco, silk production, resin, lumber

Air Raids (75, 30)

Airfields (40, 15), not Airport, not Air Drome

Airmen (15, 5)

Albania (320, 50)

All Greece (15) Documents for entire country

Allied Broadcasts

Allied Missions (35, 10)

Amnesty (75, 10)

Antiquities (10,5)

Armenians (25,15)

Army Mutiny (140, 110)

Arrests (220, 85)

Atrocities, not German, Italian or Bulgarian,

Balkans (200, 20)

BBC (240, 205)

BEN (4)

Borders (65, 50)

Bridges (110, 8)

British

British Propaganda (25, 10)

British Troops (90, 15)

Bulgaria (725, 305)

Bulgarian Atrocities (20, 10)

Bulgarian Morale (10, 5)

Bulgarian Terror (1,0)

Caique (108, 11)

Cairo Conference (4, 3)

Captured Documents (18, 16)

Caserta Agreement (8,4)

Civil Administration, travel permits, ID cards, (55, 40)

Civil Servants (55, 5)

Civilian Morale (74,63)

Civilian Relief (91, 87)

Collaborators (228, 144)

Courts (123, 28)

Currency (212, 138)

Dekembriana (132, 128)

Demography (6, 6)

Demonstrations (133, 41)

Diaspora (65, 64)

EA (3)

EAM-ELAS (1587, 1524) used for either EAM or ELAS, even after ELAS is disbanded

EAM-ELAS Terror (25, 25)

EAM-German Truce (10, 10)

EASAD (15, 10)

EDEM (15, 10)

EDES (490, 405)

EDES-German Truce (20, 20)

EDES-German Fighting (10, 10)

EDES-Italian Fighting (10, 10)

EE (6)

EEE (55, 10)

Egypt (315, 30)

EKKA (120 90)

Elections (205, 35)

ELAN (20, 10)

ELAS-German Fighting (80, 75)

ELAS-Italian Fighting (10, 10)

ELD (110, 45)

EOK (65, 40)

EPON (60, 40)

ESA (35, 5)

ESKE (5, 1)

Economy (170, 70)

Food Prices (75, 60)

Food Shortages (200, 170)

Food Supply (120, 100)

Geography (10,5)

German Atrocities, including those of Security Battalions, (165, 145)

German Morale (125, 115)

German Propaganda (150, 100)

German Reprisals (210, 180)

German Troops, Soldiers, officers, occupation forces (315, 220)

German Secret Police, Gestapo, SS, (105, 105)

German Withdrawal, including German Surrender (225, 195)

Germany (380, 35)

Greek Government Broadcasts (100, 25)

Greek Military (170, 115)

Greek Military Morale (10, 10)

Guerrillas (495, 205)

Guerrilla-Italian Fighting (20, 20)

Guerrilla-German Fighting (30, 30)

Hostages (255, 60)

Industry (125, 45)

Infrastructure (40, 40) including bridges, roads, telephone systems, water plants, utilities

ISLD, all British intelligence collection, include ISLO, (70, 40)

Italian Atrocities (25, 20)

Italian Morale (40, 35)

Italian Propaganda (10, 5)

Italian Surrender (85, 75)

Italian Troops, Soldiers, officers, occupation forces (145, 90)

Italian Reprisals (20, 15)

Italy (375, 35)

Jews, including deportation, identity cards, (140, 80)

KKE, any reference to communists or communist influence (485, 410)

King, any reference to the Royal family and Royalists, (745, 395)

Labor Conditions (15, 10)

Labor Conscription, Forced Labor in Greece (110, 100)

Labor Recruitment, Workers to Germany, forced or not (45, 40)

Leaflets, including booklets, flyers (110, 45)

Lebanon Conference (90, 60)

Liberal Party (155, 75)

Macedonia (750, 500)

Macedonian Autonomy (40,30)

Merchant Seamen (30, 25)

Mines, including for Chrome, Bauxite, etc. (105, 30)

Mountain Brigade, including Sacred Battalions (70, 40)

Muslims, including Albanian Muslims (25, 20)

National Guard (120, 70)

Nationalists, broad category for right-wing groups, (210, 170)

Naval Mutiny (100, 100)

Navy (390, 30)

Northern Epirus (60, 40)

OSS

OSS Agents (65 60)

OSS Base (35, 35)

OSS Missions (85, 85)

OPLA (20, 10)

PAO (105, 65)

PEEA (160, 115)

Plebiscite (190, 85)

Police, all police, gendarmes, (660, 280)

Populist Party (70,65)

Post-War (115, 25)

Press (655, 160)

Prices (255, 120)

Prisons, including Concentration Camps, (105, 35)

Prisoners of War, (40, 20)

Prisoners (305, 70)

Protests (85, 25)

Pubic Opinion (130, 45)

Public Health (120, 90)

PWE (190, 185)

RAN (20, 15)

Red Cross (195, 110)

Refugees (171, 16)

Republicans (100, 60) anti-monarchists

Sabotage (400, 225)

SAN (10, 10)

Security Battalions (431, 319)

Ship Sabotage (15, 15)

Slavs (60, 40)

SNOF (15, 10)

Socialists (50, 20)

Socialist Party (40, 24)

SOE, includes Psychological Warfare Branch, but not ISLD

South Africa (20, 5)

Soviet Mission (20, 20)

Strikes (170, 90)

Sweden (35, 15)

Taxes (60, 10)

Territorial Claims (65, 50)

Trains (110, 40)

Train Sabotage (90, 85)

Trials (85, 25) including Court Martial

Truce, (115, 65) including Armistice,

Turkey (345, 65)

Turks (105, 20) Ethnic Turks

Typhus (40, 10)

UNRRA (75, 40)

US (150)

USSR (270, 225)

Underground Press (50, 45)

Unions (65, 25)

Varkiza (105, 90)

VEN

Vlachs (15, 10)

Wages (85, 30)

White Russians (5, 5)

White Terror (20, 20)

Women (170, 2)

“X” (100)

Yugoslavia (235, 80)

YBE (6, 6)

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