KKE AND REBEL ARMY ACTIVITIES IN THE PELOPONNESUS

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• Document Creation Date: November 9, 2016
• Document Release Date: December 23, 1998
• Sequence Number: 5
• Publication Date: March 10, 1949
• Content Type: REPORT

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COUNTRY Greece
SUBJECT KRE and Rebel Axmgr Aativ.Yit
Peloporraeews
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DATE OF IN
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I. ShortJ,y after the arrival or the Greek 9 Division in the Peloponnesus,
3 Rebel Division was orclcrs to withdraw toward the IEsinalon, Parnon and
Taigotoe areas nndw cover of wamall, d detachments numbering
approximate3.y 1,150 men plus an unspec ie number of Civil Guards
(Laikoi Politophyrlakoi) whoae instructions were to delay the Greek Army
in the coastal and p3aair.; areas for as long as possible. A force of about
1,000 men under the command of Sapetanioe Zacharias was split up into
groups of 50 men and detailed to pin down units of the Greek Ara W along
the Corinth-Patras..Pyrgcs railroad line (Atha La-.laic and Olympia provinces )s
and a task force of about 150 yen under Kapetanios Chryeanthakopoulos was
ordered to keep open the gap between Akrata and Derveni to secure
3 Division life of retreat if evacuation became necessary.
2. In accordance with a Politburo decision, Party political organizations in
rebel area, were incorporated into the Rebel Army; the Regional Committee
of the Peloponnesus, therefore, ceased to exist as a separate organization
and now forms the political branch of 3 Rebel Division headquarters. Party
political organizations in areas under Greek Army control were not affected
by this order,.
3. on 19 December 19148 the political branch of 3 Rebel Division detailed the
following duties to all Party political organizations in the Peloponnesus:
a. Collection of intelligence on Greek Army movements.
b. Acquisition of civilian clothing and identity cards for Rebel Army
members forced to take refuge in the towns. Stores of food to be
accumulated for the same purpose.
a. Organization of evacuation facilities in coastal areas through contacts
in shipping or motor firms.
d. Rebel Army refugees In tomis and villages to be given every assistance
in informing saboteur and i;niper groups.
e. Dissemination of defeatist propaganda and alarmist reports among the
local populations
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t. Exploitation of diaoorrA
measures and Mats amt,
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arising from the Greek Armpree security
g. Infiltration 01 Pay-ty ctione into all refugee cam and organizations.
14. On 20 Does , aber 194a they foi-LL si ng instructie were received by the City
Committee of Me solos on a a .t h is under the Jurisdiction of the Provincial
Committee of A..tolcakaxjaa
a., Contact was to be iamoa1tely eoteblished with the Com=udst organization
of Naupaktoae with whom arraangents were to be made to secure safe
house and transit route* along the coast, and especially at Nupalion,
Daphnis Antiricn, Zryy I-Cri, Platanos, Agios-Dmetri0a and Paliovouna.
b. these places were then t. be guarded by swell detachments of party or
Rebel Areow members who ' e *ixld deal with the reception of evacuated men
from the Pep aainea axs . no had been ordered to Join +2 Division in
Sterea Ellada,
es. Ample medical supplies xd an experienced nursing staff were to be held
ready to deal with the .~wualties evacuated to western Sterea. Special
hide-outs for the snare w e lously wounded were to be secured.
d. Stocks of food were to La collected to supply casualties and evacuated
troops in transit.
a. Stull boats or akiffa were, therefore, to be purchased and made
available to 3 Divif; ion at short notice.
5. Steps were immediately taken to implement these instruction:;, and it was
agreed that the City Committee of Mesolongion would undertake to provide
food, medical supplies, and nursing personnel, while the Communist or-
ganization of Maupaktos would provide the evacuation fleet,
6. In a review of the Part, poetical and military situation in the Peloponnesue
at the end of December 19148, Panagiota Giarnaropou3.ou (member of the former
Regional Committee for the Peloponneaus) gave the following details s
a?. EM Panbellenia Youth Or nization Eamike Panellenike Or sin Meolai a
_ 'b ianch es ca c in t .h.
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of whom the majority
were either
Y pe,.earts who had Joined EPON to avoid forcible con-
scription into the Rebel Ate, or students who had Joined the supplies
services for adventure ra.tr than for any ideological reasons,
b. National Solidarity 1; Rth , kf. Alielenglri _ FA) s FA
towns existed in name only .-tnd were incorporated organizations in the
the Rebel Army
Supplies Services in Andarte-.contraUed territory.
c. ABER44M P of Greece 1 tikon Rotuma E12adoe - ARE
no ): There were
7~ rra ches nc ion in
territory. either Government-held or Andarte-held
.
d. Trades Unions: It had proved difficult to bring workers out on strike,
but of irnL`lu ee bad been obtained among builders and tobacco
workers at Agrinion, 3hoemtkera in Aitolikon, fishermen, bakery-workers,
shoemakers, and builders in Meaolongion. This, however, was because of
the efforts of the local brnchea of the "Free Trades Union Movesmente
(Kinema Eleutherou S nidSkai . tou - KES) than to the work on the Party
factions.
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fls ciLtation Cpssittesw had been set
up sstsesn + ~ 8 villager. The presidents themselves of
86 ex=unities 2s4 tso n pc.li stied to join. In the towns only 14 ccur-
mittesas had been t bli ~~ * c as toll e s taco in Patras, two in
igrinion, and one eacb in f T os, galaveyta, Aigion, Corinth, Arias,
llaup2ions Sputa, Ga@?r a1 .to 1i, Use Olongion and Aitolikon.
ha n forces was RAJ' high, and they
ave~Ta tie it W ;u2 t4 -ble to hold their positions In the mountainst
but the'e had been a bi g,a t ite of desertion and aarrenchw as0ong the
arma2l, rearguard data rnt. t over 10D Civil Onards and ?sobere of Self
Defense Groape (c et A~.- t iaynaa s We) s) had surrendered, among whom
were Koatas V , Pol sal Commissar for tY' a in the Achaia area,
and Oeorgios tssxrop ~alss Civil Guard Caeander for the Province of
Eryseanthia*
g. arrests 300 ' Part r ra tssxs had so far been arrested as a result of
Arar s drive, art Christos Karag3anais (member of the Pro-
vincial Coomitte of Acb , *, leader of the CAra in Patras and liaison
between the City, Caw ttte of Patras and the Rebel Army formation in
Achaia) had been kl,L.ed in a battle with the police in Patera,. Following
this clash, 14 ot2 Part; members had been arrested, and with thes-
svutzas (fn5), cashier of the City Committee of Patras and
"responsible" for financial ent iessa
25X1A6a Coommentt it is paros med that similar orders wanes issued to other
or?s sstaos in the oaesta area to the east of ttoa. It is
otherwise difficult to unsie4-stand why reception areas should be chosen
so far away grog the emotion point.
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