Michael Tossizza that the President of the Foundation bear his family name, he then added the surname Tossizza to his surname. Evangelos Averof Foundation He also founded the Evangelos Averof-Tositsas Foundation,to which he donated his significant personal collection of paintings by Greek artists of the 19th and early 20th century and built a gallery to house it. At the same time he invested in local vineyards cultivating the abandoned lands of Metsovo and creating a contemporary winery. After his death (1990) the people of Metsovo honored him by placing his statue in the town's central square. Critics In her best-selling book, A Man, Italian journalist Oriana Fallaci accused Averoff of threatening to kill Greek MP Alexandros Panagoulis a few days before Panagoulis' death in a car accident in Athens. According to Oriana Fallaci, Averoff represented the link between the Greek Junta and the political system during the transition period following Metapolitefsi. In particular, Fallaci claims that Panagoulis was in possession of secret documents showing Averoff's direct involvement in brokering the transition from the Joannides Junta to a national unity government led by Konstantinos Karamanlis, keeping himself in charge of managing the relations between the democratic system and the Armed Forces. Averoff's instrumental role in bringing about the appointment of Konstantinos Karamanlis has been confirmed by multiple sources, and Averoff became the Minister of Defense in the 1974 transition government. According to Fallaci, other secret documents showed that Averoff had not taken part in the Greek Resistance during World War II, but instead had been a collaborator of the Italian occupation troops as well as one of the conspirators behind the Velos Mutiny in 1973, after which he apparently collaborated with the Junta and, as a result of his cooperation, was acquitted without charges. Sources Evaggelos Averof-Tositsas 1908–1990, Evangelos Averoff-Tossizza Foundation, Metsovo 2000. E. Chatzivasileiou, Evaggelos Averof Tositsas 1908–1990 – Political biography, Publ. I. Sideri, Athens E. Averof – Tositsa, Me logismo kai m’oneiro, publ. Evangelos Averoff-Tossizza Foundation, 1991 G. Plataris, To Simeiomatari enos Metsoviti [The diary of a Metsovian], 1871–1943, Athens 1972, pp. 288–290 Notes 1910 births 1990 deaths People from Trikala Greek people of Aromanian descent Aromanian politicians National Political Union (1946) politicians Liberal Party (Greece) politicians National Radical Union politicians Leaders of New Democracy (Greece) Foreign ministers of Greece Ministers of National Defence of Greece Agriculture ministers of Greece Greek MPs 1946–1950 Greek MPs 1950–1951 Greek MPs 1951–1952