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Greece From:jeffrey_d_zients@who.eop.gov To: john.podesta@gmail.com Date: 2015-07-08 08:54 Subject: Greece John - hope you're well. Thanks for Greece suggestions. Spoke to Phil Angelides and Mike Dukakis reached out. Brief readouts below. Miss you here - look forward to catching up soon. JZAngelides is not close with Tsipras, but noted that Tsipras visited with him and other prominent Greek-Americans during a trip to the US when he was opposition leader, and they've kept in touch intermittently since. He is talking with Jamie Galbraith, a college classmate who he's known for about 40 years, this evening about how they might help reinforce our Plan A messaging to Tsipras-namely, that while Tsipras has his political imperatives domestically so too does Merkel and he needs to come forward with a credible reform plan. Angelides said in the event of an exit, he wanted to be helpful and offered to help mobilize the Greek-American community to provide assistance.Dukakis offered to mobilize Greek-American community for whatever purpose. Noted he doesn't know of anyone who has strong ties to Tsipras directly. I emphasized our focus now is on Plan A of getting a deal done, and for him to dig deep into networks and think of anyone who can help move Tsipras. In longer-run, he had idea of lending American expertise to help Greece overcome skepticism about ability to implement reforms (e.g. former IRS to help them collect taxes). We agreed to stay in touch. https://wikileaks.org/podesta-emails/emailid/36570
