X played an active role in the White Terror, and even in the weeks before Varkiza, British officials were complaining of police using elements of X and EDES to make political arrests under warrants issued by a police magistrate who was a member of X.[17] British authorities estimated X's ranks to have swelled to over 200,000 men at the time.[18] One of the significant events involving X occurred in January 1946 when 1000 Chites under the bandit Manganas took over the town of Kalamata in the Peloponnese. They released 32 right-wing prisoners and terrorized the town during the night killing 6 people. In 1948 Manganas resumed a career of banditry in the Olympia region.