Greece/Deep state

Deep state

Greece/Deep state ()
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Abbreviation	EL/DS
The Greek deep state

The Greek deep state is not well documented. CIA whistleblower Philip Agee wrote in his memoirs that "it seemed the Agency's hands were into everything in" the country.

19^th Century

Greece was a puppet state of Great Britain, chained by debt.Template:Cn Basil Zaharoff, born in 1849, became one of the richest men in the world by pioneering the profession of the modern arms dealer.

20^th Century

1920s

From the 1920s to the early 1950s, the arms manufacturer Prodromos Bodosakis-Athanasiadis had the leadership of the country in his pocket.Template:Cn

1940s

WW2

Greece was invaded by Germany in 1941. In that year an assessment by the Director of National Intelligence^[Who?]Template:Cn termed Prodromos Bodosakis-Athanasiadis a "thoroughly disreputable character, by some considered the most dangerous of all the Greeks". The OSS recruited him in 1942.

Post war

Full article: Greece/Stay Behind

In 1944, Operation Gladio was set up Greece. The Greek Stay Behind was known as 'Red Sheep' (Κόκκινη Προβιά), and later installed a military dictatorship in the 1960s.

1950s

Józef Retinger consulted Panagiotis Pipinelis when setting up the Bilderberg. Panagiotis Kanellopoulos attended the first Bilderberg as Greek Defence Minister.

The KYP military intelligence agency was founded in 1953. The agency was created by influential Greek-American CIA agents, the most famous being Thomas Karamessines, who later rose to become Deputy Director for Plans in the CIA. KYP was controlled by the CIA; in the first eleven years of its history (1953-1964) its agents received their salaries from the Americans, not the Greek state, until Prime Minister Georgios Papandreou stopped this practice.

1960s

Charles Arliotis (whose first Bilderberg was in 1959) became a member of the steering committee in the 1960s. Panagiotis Pipelinis became Greek Prime Minister in 1963.

Coup d'etat

On 21 April 1967, weeks before the scheduled elections expected to be won by Georgios Papandreou, a group of right-wing army officers led by Brigadier General Stylianos Pattakos and Colonels George Papadopoulos and Nikolaos Makarezos seized power in a military coup. The coup leaders gained control of the Athens by placing tanks in strategic positions around the city. At the same time, a large number of small mobile units were dispatched to arrest leading politicians, authority figures, and ordinary citizens suspected of left-wing sympathies, according to lists prepared in advance. The coup used the Gladio Prometheus plan.

1970s

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“Although I didn't understand very much, but it seemed the Agency's hands were into everything in that country. And apparently it hadn't changed very much, because a recent mission directory showed an enormous CIA contingent for a nation the size of Greece”
Philip Agee

1980s

Kostas Karras attended all the Bilderbergs from 1979 to 1997

On 1 March 1988, "terrorists" shot dead Alexander J. Athanassiades, whose uncle Bodossaki Athanassiades attended the 1965 Bilderberg.

1990s

21^st Century

2000s

Surveillance

In 2005, it was exposed that United States intelligence agencies were involved the illegal tapping of more than 100 mobile phones on the Vodafone Greece network belonging mostly to members of the Greek government and top-ranking civil servants. The taps reportedly began sometime near the beginning of August 2004 and were removed in March 2005. The perpetrators were not identified.

The phones tapped included those of the Prime Minister Kostas Karamanlis and members of his family, the Mayor of Athens, Dora Bakoyannis, most phones of the top officers at the Ministry of Defense, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, the Ministry for Public Order, members of the ruling party, ranking members of the opposition Panhellenic Socialist Movement party (PASOK), the Hellenic Navy General Staff, the previous Minister of Defense and one phone of a locally hired Greek American employee of the American Embassy. Phones of Athens-based Arab businessmen were also tapped.

2010s

In July 2015, a group of 65 retired high-ranking military officers publicly called for a "yes" vote in a referendum on the a debt restructuring plan with the European Union, citing their "oath to the Fatherland and the Flag" and warning, "By choosing isolation, we place the Fatherland and its future in danger." They thus defied Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras's call for a "no" vote. Retired General Fragkoulis Fragkos, a former defense minister and one-time head of the Greek army general staff, called for a "loud yes on Sunday." In 2011, Fragkos was cashiered by then-Prime Minister George Papandreou amid rumors of a coup.

Paschalidis Panagiotis worked for the Integrity Initiative. His work researching the Greek commercially-controlled media reporting of the Skripal Affair was exposed by the leak.

2020s

Greece was not only compliant in the COVID-19 event, it mandated COVID jabs for those aged 60 and above.

People

Four Greeks are known to have attended Le Cercle: Basil Koutsis, Giannos Kranidiotis (killed together with his son in a "freak accident" 3 months after attending a Bilderberg meeting, Dimitris Lemos and Nikos Papandreou Other players include:

• Loukas Tsoukalis - Bilderbergs, Bilderberg Steering Committee
• Dimitrios Papalexopoulos - Bilderbergs, European Round Table of Industrialists
• Complete list of the Greek Bilderbergers

References