Andreas Papandreou person
also: Andreas Paparando, Andrus, Andrus Papa Andrus, Andrus Papadopoulos, Andrus Papandrus, Papalos, A-N-D-R-O-U-T-S-O-P-O-U-L-O-S, Papantros, younger Papandros, younger guy, Andras Papadondros, Andras Paprandro, Andres Papadreou, Andres Papandro Bark, Androsopoulos, Andrus Papandro
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Claims (16)
King Constantine removed_from_power
Andreas Papandreou book_quoted
“was finally maneuvered out of office by a royal prerogative because, of course, they have the king on their side. The king had a coalition of breakaway center union deputies and rightists waiting in the wings to form a new government. It wa…”
▶ Operation Gladio Greece 1964-1974 @ 10:05
Andreas Papandreou supported
Adlai Stevenson II host_asserted
“What concerned the opponents of George Papandro most about him was his son, Andrus. Andrus had been educated in the United States and was a U.S. citizen. He'd been granted citizenship. He was a professor at the University of California, Ber…”
▶ Revolution by another name Operation Gladio —GREECE @ 41:09
Andreas Papandreou supported
Hubert Humphrey host_asserted
“What concerned the opponents of George Papandro most about him was his son, Andrus. Andrus had been educated in the United States and was a U.S. citizen. He'd been granted citizenship. He was a professor at the University of California, Ber…”
▶ Revolution by another name Operation Gladio —GREECE @ 41:09
Andreas Papandreou opposed
North Atlantic Treaty Organization host_asserted
“Adlai Stevenson and Hubert Humphrey. His economic views were those of the American New Deal. What could be wrong with that, right? FDR is a hero of what used to be the West. But Andrus did not disguise his wish to take Greece out of the Col…”
▶ Revolution by another name Operation Gladio —GREECE @ 41:40
KYP spied_on
Andreas Papandreou host_asserted
“But then again, the U.S. had already labeled them as terrorists. When Andrus, the son, assumed his minstrel duties in his dad's cabinet in 1964, he was shocked to discover a couple of different things. The Greek Intel Service, CIA for them,…”
▶ Revolution by another name Operation Gladio —GREECE @ 45:47
Andreas Papandreou appointed
Greece documented
“of the American training in Subversive, basically the School of Americas. Iandidis named as prime minister a Greek-American by the name of Androsopoulos. I mean, this guy's got like 15 letters, so let me spell his name. A-N-D-R-O-U-T-S-O-P-…”
▶ Revolution by another name Operation Gladio —GREECE @ 1:06:50
Andreas Papandreou overthrew
Cyprus host_asserted
“who came to Greece after World War II as an official employee of the CIA. So, and he told everybody that he actually worked for the CIA. So you have the second prime minister CIA agent in Greece. Eight months later, this new CIA agent.…”
▶ Revolution by another name Operation Gladio —GREECE @ 1:07:19
Dimitrios Ioannidis installed
Andreas Papandreou book_quoted
“commander of the military police, chief torture, graduate of the American Training School in anti-subversive techniques, confidant of the CIA. He was named as prime minister of a Greek-American. He named a prime minister who happened to be …”
▶ Operation Gladio Greece 1964-1974 @ 36:29
CIA funded
Andreas Papandreou documented
“which was Paprandro's party, and rightists waiting in the wings to form a new government. It was later revealed by the State Department's official that the CIA station chief at the time, John Murray, M-A-U-R-Y, and just look him up, he's th…”
▶ Revolution by another name Operation Gladio —GREECE @ 40:09
Andreas Papandreou member_of
CIA host_asserted
“who came to Greece after World War II as an official employee of the CIA. So, and he told everybody that he actually worked for the CIA. So you have the second prime minister CIA agent in Greece. Eight months later, this new CIA agent.…”
▶ Revolution by another name Operation Gladio —GREECE @ 1:07:19
Andreas Papandreou member_of
California State University, Los Angeles documented
“What concerned the opponents of George Papandro most about him was his son, Andrus. Andrus had been educated in the United States and was a U.S. citizen. He'd been granted citizenship. He was a professor at the University of California, Ber…”
▶ Revolution by another name Operation Gladio —GREECE @ 41:09
Andreas Papandreou member_of
Greece documented
“anti-communist and had the credentials to prove it, dating back to his role as a British-installed prime minister during the Civil War against the leftists in the 1944 and 1945 time period. But he, too, showed stirrings of independence and …”
▶ Revolution by another name Operation Gladio —GREECE @ 44:17
Andreas Papandreou accepted_aid_from
Soviet Union host_asserted
“and it didn't necessarily jive with the U.S.'s position. He also accepted an invitation to visit Moscow, which, you know, is like dead man walking at this point. He also accepted Soviet aid in preparation for what looked like at the time a …”
▶ Revolution by another name Operation Gladio —GREECE @ 44:46
Andreas Papandreou exposed
Tom Pappas documented
“So he got accused, I think, by George Papandreou of being a CIA agent, as referenced in a Boston Globe article in 1969. And I pinned it to The Nest where folks can read some of that. Obviously, he was a big industrialist, but then he's also…”
▶ Revolution by another name Operation Gladio —GREECE @ 1:13:06
United States ordered_assassination_of
Andreas Papandreou host_asserted
“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…”
▶ Revolution by another name Operation Gladio —GREECE @ 36:12
CIA recruited
Andreas Papandreou book_quoted
“was later reported to have worked with the CIA in the 1960s. He criticized the publication of the report, but he did not dispute its truth. It would not have been incompatible with being a liberal for him to have been basically like a Greek…”
▶ Operation Gladio Greece 1964-1974 @ 14:11
Mentions (63)
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And that kind of goes in line with what we were talking about yesterday and training National Guard people in order to affect this terror campaign. The coup had taken place two days before the campaign for national elections was to begin be…
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Papa and I don't know how you say his last name. It's P-A-P-A-N-D-R-E-O-U. It's Drow, Papa, Papa Rand Drow as the prime minister. So he had been elected in February 1964 with the only outright majority in the history of modern Greek electio…
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which was the pen name for a guy by the name of Gerasimos Gigantes, G-I-G-A-N-T-E-S, who was Greek, a former UN official who worked during this period both for King Constantine and as an envoy to Washington for the Paparandu government. He …
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The story related to Dean illustrates how this attitude was little changed, and thus the Paparandros position was very precarious. During one of the disputes between Greece and Turkey over Cyprus, which was now spilling over into NATO, Pres…
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If these two fleas continue itching the elephant, they may just get whacked by the elephant's trunk. And I mean whacked good. We pay a lot of good American dollars to the Greek, Mr. Ambassador. If your prime minister gives me talk about dem…
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was finally maneuvered out of office by a royal prerogative because, of course, they have the king on their side. The king had a coalition of breakaway center union deputies and rightists waiting in the wings to form a new government. It wa…
▶ 10:34
On behalf of the palace in 1965, he helped King Constantine buy center union deputies so that the Papadros government was toppled. So you have the CIA working with the king to overthrow the elected government of Greece. For nearly two years…
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avoid having elections based on the Constitution. So they're doing everything they can to destabilize Greece and avoid having a new election. What concerned the opponents of the current president most was his son, Andrus Papandrus.…
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who had been head of the economics department at the University of California, Berkeley, and a minister in his father's cabinet. He was destined for a leading role in any new government with the current, well, with the prime minister. But h…
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moderate liberals like Adelaide Stevenson and Hubert Humphrey. His economic views, wrote the Washington Post, are those of American New Deal, which is basically socialism light. But Andrus, Papa Andrus, did not disguise his wish to take Gre…
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and remaining a satellite of the United States. He leaned toward opening relations with the Soviet Union, another dead man walking strike, and other nations on Greece's border. He argued that the swollen American military and intelligence t…
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wishing to purge it of its most dictatorial, royalist-minded senior officers. Andrus was more of a centrist than he was a leftist or even on the right, as his presidency was to demonstrate because he eventually does get elected president. H…
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dismantle U.S. military bases. But in Lyndon Johnson's Washington, if you are not totally and unquestionably on board, you are 100% against them. And you basically had to be neutralized because you were viewed as betraying the U.S. Here's a…
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He was an American with all the rights and privileges, and he had sworn allegiance to the flag, and then he gave up the American citizenship. He went back to just being a Greek. You can't trust a man who breaks his oath of allegiance to the…
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was later reported to have worked with the CIA in the 1960s. He criticized the publication of the report, but he did not dispute its truth. It would not have been incompatible with being a liberal for him to have been basically like a Greek…
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in a foreign country is basically a target for the CIA for them to howl around with just for nothing else, not even just like spying, for them to understand culturally what they're dealing with in foreign countries. They basically kind of m…
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more informed assessments so that they could twist the truth if they wanted to. So it doesn't surprise me that he was actually a target. As for his dad, his anti-communist credentials were impeccable, dating back to his role in the British-…
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But he, too, showed stirrings of independence from the Western superpower. He refused to buckle to Johnson's pressure to compromise with Turkey over Cyprus. He accepted an invitation to visit Moscow. And when his government said that it wou…
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reintroduce certain civil liberties and to readmit into Greece some of those who had fought against the government during the Civil War, you know, being a good leader. When Andrus assumed his minister duties in 1964, he was shocked to disco…
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every industrial state in the world, an intelligence service gone wild, a shadow government with powers beyond the control of its leaders. This, thought the younger Papandros, accounted for many of the obstacles the government was encounter…
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was created by the OSS and the CIA in the course of the Civil War, with hundreds of its officers receiving training in the United States. Notice a pattern there? One of these men, George Papadopoulos, and yes, he spells it exactly the same …
▶ 18:17
was correct because they're also overhearing it in their own right on their own encryption machines. As a result of his discovery, the younger Paprandros dismissed the two top KYP men and replaced them with reliable officers. The new direct…
▶ 18:46
All the equipment was American. See what I mean? Controlled by the CIA or Greeks under CIA supervision. There was no kind of distinction between the two services. They duplicated the function as a counterpart relationship. In effect, it was…
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U.S. Embassy, Norbert, and let me spell his last name, A-N-S-H-U-T-Z, or it's also spelled a different way. He used different spellings, which tells you right there he's CIA. A-N-S-C-H-U-E-T-Z to visit him. And who had been linked to the CI…
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Papantros rescind his order to disassemble the eavesdropping material. And he also demanded that the American leave his office, which he did, but not before warning him that there would be consequences. Seven ways to Sunday. So the younger …
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by the new KYP deputy director. It wasn't until much later that he discovered he simply planted a lot more new bugs. Lo and behold, we'd brought in another American paid operative as the number two guy, the deputy director in the KYP, and t…
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commander of the military police, chief torture, graduate of the American Training School in anti-subversive techniques, confidant of the CIA. He was named as prime minister of a Greek-American. He named a prime minister who happened to be …
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Papalos, A-N-D-R-O-U-T-S-O-P-O-U-L-O-S. I love these Greek names. He came to Greece after World War II as an official employee of the CIA, a fact that he boasted about constantly. So you've got Colonel Papadopoulos, who was a CIA employee.…
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The evidence of U.S. complicity will never be fully known. Andreas Paparando had been arrested at the time of the coup and held in prison for eight months. Shortly after his release, him and his wife visited the American ambassador, Philip …
▶ 27:35
That they wanted. And he basically stepped down because he was not going to do it. Andres Papadreou. And we're going to talk about him throughout this. I want to spell his last name for everybody. It's P-A-P-A-N-D-R-E-A-U. Papadreou. Later.…
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would become prime minister himself. But during this time, he wrote this, quote, cabinet members and army generals, political party leaders, and members of the establishment all made open references to American wishes or views in order to j…
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He was sentenced to prison for 18 months. Does that sound like the United States now? Of course it does. In the economic sphere, Andras Paprandro said, the U.S. exercised almost dictatorial control during the early 50s, requiring the signat…
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So that happens in 1964. In 1964, Andras Papadondros gets elected as the prime minister. And we're going to skip forward to 1964 to 1974 and go over what happens in Greece during that period. But you have to keep in mind, for all of this ti…
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And keep in mind, this was done with the full knowledge of the United States. Because in 1964, the Andro guy was, excuse me, hold on. They elected a prime minister that was not to the U.S.'s liking, George Hoprando. His son was Andrus.…
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So George gets elected, and I'm just going to use his first name. George got elected in 1964, and we're going to go through what basically happens to him because this is just crazy. So once he's overthrown and the colonel's junta takes over…
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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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who worked during this period for both the King Constantine, who basically is a puppet, and as an envoy to Washington per the Palpandro government. He has written an intimate account of the subtleties and grossness of this conspiracy to und…
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that we have had a Constitution in name only and a Republican name only for a very long time. In July 1965, George Pantrow was finally maneuvered out of the office by royal prerogative. So he was elected in 64. The CIA basically convinced t…
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Off all of Papandro's government, and that's the reason that Papandro's government was overthrown, is because it was bought by CIA's money. And that's actually in a State Department memo. For nearly two years thereafter, various short-lived…
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What concerned the opponents of George Papandro most about him was his son, Andrus. Andrus had been educated in the United States and was a U.S. citizen. He'd been granted citizenship. He was a professor at the University of California, Ber…
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What concerned the opponents of George Papandro most about him was his son, Andrus. Andrus had been educated in the United States and was a U.S. citizen. He'd been granted citizenship. He was a professor at the University of California, Ber…
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Adlai Stevenson and Hubert Humphrey. His economic views were those of the American New Deal. What could be wrong with that, right? FDR is a hero of what used to be the West. But Andrus did not disguise his wish to take Greece out of the Col…
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which is a mortal sin, and he vehemently disagreed with Greece being a satellite of the U.S. He leaned towards open relationships with both the Soviet Union and the Americans, and he said that there should be no U.S. military or intelligenc…
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Andres Papandro Bark was much worse than his bite because he does later become a president, and he in no way tried to get Greece out of NATO or anything else. And as we will see, there are allegations that he was approached, as are all fore…
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Here's a quote from LBJ about Andrus. We gave the son of a bitch American citizenship, didn't we? He was an American with all of the rights and privileges, and he had sworn allegiance to the flag. And then he gave up his American citizenshi…
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What a pompous ass. What then are we to make of the fact that Andrus was later reported to have worked for the CIA in the 1960s? He actually criticized the report that made that allegation, but he never denied that he was or had done work o…
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What a pompous ass. What then are we to make of the fact that Andrus was later reported to have worked for the CIA in the 1960s? He actually criticized the report that made that allegation, but he never denied that he was or had done work o…
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anti-communist and had the credentials to prove it, dating back to his role as a British-installed prime minister during the Civil War against the leftists in the 1944 and 1945 time period. But he, too, showed stirrings of independence and …
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Papandros began to reintroduce civil liberties and readmit into Greece those people who had fought against basically the ELAS people who had been tortured during the time the U.S. was basically running the government. And he wanted to make …
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But then again, the U.S. had already labeled them as terrorists. When Andrus, the son, assumed his minstrel duties in his dad's cabinet in 1964, he was shocked to discover a couple of different things. The Greek Intel Service, CIA for them,…
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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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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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Many Western intelligence agencies have long provided the CIA with information about their own government and citizens because a lot of them were originally funded and set up by the CIA and trained by the CIA. And then, of course, they basi…
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conversations was Crypto AG and we know definitively based on the list that I found that Greece was one of the organizations that was using that system. Papandros ordered to abolish the bugging of the cabinet actually ended up outing severa…
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was working on the cabinet as actually being employed by the CIA. So the deputy chief of mission in the U.S. embassy, Norbert, and I'm going to spell his last name, A-N-S-H-U-T-Z, who had also worked for the CIA, demanded that Papandros res…
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um minister that he doesn't get to control who works on his staff and he goes so far as to say if you don't rescind that order firing those people there will be consequences so papandros the younger one does a thorough search and he found t…
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and that the deputy director working for him was actually a CIA agent. The endeavor by Andrus to, in the practice of the KYP's funds coming directly from the CIA, and so this just blew my mind, the CIA is funding their counterparts in the G…
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and that the deputy director working for him was actually a CIA agent. The endeavor by Andrus to, in the practice of the KYP's funds coming directly from the CIA, and so this just blew my mind, the CIA is funding their counterparts in the G…
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of the American training in Subversive, basically the School of Americas. Iandidis named as prime minister a Greek-American by the name of Androsopoulos. I mean, this guy's got like 15 letters, so let me spell his name. A-N-D-R-O-U-T-S-O-P-…
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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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So he got accused, I think, by George Papandreou of being a CIA agent, as referenced in a Boston Globe article in 1969. And I pinned it to The Nest where folks can read some of that. Obviously, he was a big industrialist, but then he's also…
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He was providing funding to some of the Watergate defendants, I think. He comes up in some of the conversations with Haldeman, you know, in spring of 73, as they're trying to figure out, you know, how they're going to handle the legal situa…