The United States Overthrow of Democracy in Greece - CIA Coups

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In 1967 the United States of America overthrew democracy in Greece & installed a fascist military dictatorship, under the leadership of George Papadopoulos.

According to an Amnesty International report on January 27 1968, the U.S. backed regime routinely used a variety of tortures against the resistance, such as:

* Falanga; Beating the soles of the feet with a stick or pipe
* Tearing out the hair from the head and the pubic region
* Pulling out toe nails and finger nails
* Jumping on the stomach
* Electric Shocks
* Sexual Torture

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Although some of the CIA documents on Greece were authorized to be declassified, they were held back following complaints from the US embassy in Greece & never released.

A lengthy declassified US State Dept report on Greece gives the overall appearance that the overthrow of George Papandreou in Greece was not given the go ahead & that the United States only conspired with Papadopoulos & the King to subvert democracy in Greece.

But, sworn testimony that George Papadopoulos received money from the CIA was gathered by Greek investigating judges & U.S. officials have acknowledged that Papadopoulos was in the pay of the CIA.

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"In Greece, the British army took over after the Nazis had withdrawn, displacing the Greek guerrillas and imposing a brutal and corrupt regime....The US stepped into the breach under the Truman Doctrine in 1947, launching a murderous counterinsurgency war, complete with the full panoply of devices soon to be employed elsewhere: massacre, torture, expulsion, reeducation camps, and so on.

A CIA study warned of 'the possible loss of the petroleum resources of the Middle East' if the revolt against the right-wing government imposed by British Military force were not crushed.

Though Stalin was in fact adhering to the 'spheres of influence' agreement he had reached with Churchill, a Soviet threat was concocted in the routine manner, and Greece was 'pacified' by a bloody campaign of terror and torture that took 160,000 lives, restored the old order including Nazi collaborators, and opened the country to U.S. investment and control, with consequences that persist until today.

Twenty years later, the US supported the first fascist restoration in Europe (also, the first government headed by a CIA agent, Colonel Papadopoulos, who was the liaison between the CIA and its Greek counterpart, virtually a subsidiary)."

- Noam Chomsky

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The son of a Greek Military hero, Philip Deane, served in the British Royal Navy during WWII. He was captured & imprisoned for 33 months by the Communists in Korea, whilst working as a Journalist.

Deane saw himself as a martyr for the ideals of Western democracy.

In his book "I should have died" Deane describes how he became disillusioned & disgusted with the West after he went to work as Secretary General for King Constantine of Greece & discovered the King's plot to seize power in collaboration with the British & the U.S. & the CIA's support for the Colonels who overthrew democracy & installed a fascist military regime.

Deane describes the pressure the Greeks were put under to accept a Turkish Military Base/Partition of the Island of Cyprus. Describing US President Lyndon Johnson's conversation with Greek Ambassador Matsas thus:

"...listen to me, Mr Ambassador," said Lyndon Johnson, "**** your Parliament and your Constitution. America is an elephant. Cyprus is a flea. Greece is a flea. If those two fleas continue itching the elephant, they may just get whacked by the elephant's trunk, whacked good. We pay a lot of good American dollars to the Greeks, Mr Ambassador. If your Prime Minister gives me talk about Democracy, Parliament and Constitutions, he, his Parliament and his Constitution may not last very long."

"Don't forget to tell old Papa what's his name what I told you. Mind you tell him, You hear?"

More from Deane's book:

"After the fall of the colonels, Greek investigating judges gathered sworn testimony that George Papadopoulos received a personal stipend from the American CIA agents and that he was the man through whom they paid stipends to the rest of the KYP employees."

"The coup is near. And the Americans are backing it: all my sources say so."

- Lakis Gigantes (Philip Deane's father), former chief of intelligence at the general staff.


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Sources:

Democracy at Gunpoint - Andreas Papandreou
I Should Have Died - Philip Dean
The Greek Tragedy - Constantine Tsoucalas
Turning the Tide - Noam Chomsky
World Orders Old & New - Noam Chomsky
Killing Hope - William Blum
New York Times
State Dept Volume XVI Foreign Relations, 1964-1968 Cyprus; Greece; Turkey

http://www.state.gov/r/pa/ho/frus/johnsonlb/xvi/index.htm

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[kubruk]

US used the very same tactics against Greece and Turkey in these years using communism fear. But now i don't think US has any interest in Greek internal affairs anymore. Now we play ball in mid east. btw, what lyndon johnson said was extremely rude - if it is correct.

[CapitalistHolocaust]

Well, if you are threating one ally with the destruction of it's countryside by the aerial bombing by another ally, unless that ally comply to allow a military occupation of their rightful territorial property, it doesn't really matter what language you use, you are still an evil c**t.

[kubruk]

wow- that's such a long sentence and couldn't catch what you meant. but for sure not related what I posted.

[CapitalistHolocaust]

Sorry, I thought you were referring to Lyndon Johnson's "F**k your parliament & your constitution" phrase.

Which was allegedly leveled at Ambassador Matsas because of George Papandreou's refusal to accept Washington's orders that NATO member Greece allow NATO member Turkey to take over half of the island of Cyprus & place a military base on it, amidst the threats of either Greece or Cyprus being bombed by Turkey.

[bleupeony2]

Did you know that the dalai Lama was paid by the CIA $180,000 yearly to leave Tibet and lie about China? Did you know that since early 1950, the Dalai Lama's two elder brothers were paid CIA agants? Did yopu know that the CIA, US gov, with the presidents direct involvement, funded the training of the Dalai Lama's select Tibenatn warriers, as contras, and ran terror camps on the border in Mustang? All with Dalai Lama's approval?

China, not Dalai Lama, emancipated Tibets slaves and serfs.

[CapitalistHolocaust]

I know that the Dalai Lama is involved with the CIA, but am no expert on the exact details.

However, China is no angel. All States act like coercive criminal thugs, it is in their nature. And they particularly act like this to their satellites.

Suffice it to say, America wants to point out the crimes of enemy & near-enemy states (like China) & distract from their own crimes.

[Deycaleon]

Better than losing Greece to the communists.Better look at the declassified Russian documents, oops wait a minute they are not declassified yet.

I suggest you make a presentation about that, without it you do not have the whole picture and you are misinforming people

[NoNewWorldOrder2000]

Η μαλακία βαράει σύννεφο.

Ο ίδιος ο Αντρέας Παπ. ήρθε στην Ελλάδα καρφωτός από CIA.

[redbear66]

Good work. Looks like they got Greece by the short and curlies this time. Greeks must give up their sovereignity, didn't they do that when they joined the EU? Does anyone else smell the stench of fascism?

[antekification]

@sargentnoob no you didnt say what charactherise a rogue terror state.

[sargentnoob]

@antekification ... I just said why in the last comment.

[antekification]

@sargentnoob why do you keep talking about Gaza, its about the u.s.!

[sargentnoob]

@antekification Gaza under Hamas rule. The United States is nothing like that.

[antekification]

@sargentnoob well what is considered a terrorist rogue regime today?

[sargentnoob]

@antekification Instead of answering let me ask how they are terrorists.

[antekification]

@sargentnoob ok great so why dont you accept the terror claim I made then?

[sargentnoob]

@antekification No, one must be foreign to not know what the Union is.