CYPRUS: FIRST TERRORIST INCIDENT SINCE GENERAL GRIVAS' DEATH

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• Document Creation Date: December 28, 2022
• Document Release Date: August 30, 2018
• Case Number: F-2016-01647
• Publication Date: April 24, 1974

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Cyprus
First Terrorist Incident Since General Grivas' Death
On April 22, a group of 30-35 armed masked mem-
bers of the EOKA-B,the Greek Cypriot guerrilla
organization, entered the village of Larnaca and
beat. with.tire chains and clubs several of Archbishop
Makarios' supporters; seven of them were hospitalized.
The incident was the first raid carried out by EOKA-B
since its leader, General Grivas, died last January.
It has provoked renewed efforts by the Cyprus govern-
ment to control the remnants of Grivas' organization,
which seeks the union of Cyprus with Greece (enosis)
and has been faction-ridden since the death of Grivas.
After Grivas' death, Makarios freed 123 Grivas
men from prison and offered amnesty to some 70 wanted
terrorists. Probably prompted as much by a leader-
ship struggle as by the trauma of Grivas' death,
EOKA-B announced in February that it was temporarily
suspending operations. The organization has been
divided over strategy and tactics, with the majority
apparently favoring political action rather than
terrorism.
No new leader has yet emerged. Stavrous
Stavrou, a recently released prisoner who considered
himself Grivas' heir apparent, may have been ex-
pelled from EOKA-B. The organization believes he
� information to the government that led to wide-
� read arrests of EOKA-B members -in late 1973 and
1974. Stavros Zakos, a
Famagusta businessmen, is reportedly now emerging
as the EOKA-B head.
an unidentified Greex army otticer has been sent by
Athens to Nicosia to assume command of EOKA-B. This
officer is apparently not Brigadier General DeIrtilis,
who returned to Greece earlier this month after a
three-week stay in Cyprus.
Athens' role and motivations remain murky and
probably hold the key to the future of EOKA-B. The
organization has made no statement regarding the re-
cent terrorist incident, and it may have been the work
of smaller more radical groups within EOKA-B who are
tired of the leadership struggle and willina to takel
independent action.
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