1967 Greek coup d'état event
also: 1967 coup, CIA-enabled coup, Colonel's Junta, coup, military coup, the coup
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Philip E. Talbot denied_intervention
1967 Greek coup d'état host_asserted
“had been arrested at the time of the coup and held in prison for eight months. Shortly after his release, him and his wife, Margaret, visited the American ambassador, Phillips Talbot, in Athens. Papandreou related the following. This is a q…”
▶ Revolution by another name Operation Gladio —GREECE @ 1:09:32
CIA supported
1967 Greek coup d'état host_asserted
“military colonels after he took office because, again, he dared to talk to the USSR and blah, blah, blah. We already know that whole routine. And he was not going to be a vassal state of the United States. And he basically was representing …”
▶ Revolution by another name Operation Gladio —GREECE @ 36:42
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in 1967 was taken over by a CIA-enabled coup, and it was called the Colonel's Junta. It came to power in April 1967, followed immediately by the traditional martial law, censorship, arrests, beating, tortures, killings, and victims totaling…
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Security police and the military police, both of which was trained and equipped by the United States military. The coup had taken place two days before the election. Elections that appeared that George Papandreou was going to be the prime m…
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military colonels after he took office because, again, he dared to talk to the USSR and blah, blah, blah. We already know that whole routine. And he was not going to be a vassal state of the United States. And he basically was representing …
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they had went through, and we'll go into it a little bit, some god-awful crap and tried to play out the fact of not having an election and then eventually forced into having an election, were pissed off that that guy still looked like he wa…
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I'm just going to leave that there. He was the leader of the junta that seized power from George in 1967. And he basically installed himself as their new prime minister. And Andrus, when he became one of the ministers, found that the Greek …
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And like the KCIA that we found in Korea, they basically had, when they were set up, this exact same setup. They were not the Korean CIA. They were our CIA posing as the Korean CIA. It's just quite crazy, actually. So in mid-February 1967, …
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that Marquis Childs was there to discuss CIA reports, which, quote, left no doubt that a military coup was in the making. It could hardly have been a secret. Since 1947, the Greek army and American military basically were one in the same. A…
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So they were told a coup was going to happen and they did nothing about it. A CIA report dated 23 January 1967 had specifically named the Papadopoulos group as one plotting the coup and was apparently one of the reports discussed in that Fe…
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There was both Muslim and Greeks living on the island that this was going to basically be kicking a hornet's nest. And that's exactly what happened. And Turkey invaded Cyprus as a result. And there was all kinds of crap breaking out. And it…
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had been arrested at the time of the coup and held in prison for eight months. Shortly after his release, him and his wife, Margaret, visited the American ambassador, Phillips Talbot, in Athens. Papandreou related the following. This is a q…
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Margaret asked a critical question. What if the coup had been a communist or a leftist coup? Talbot answered without hesitation. Then, of course, we would have intervened and the coup would have been crushed. That says it all. So that's wha…