INCREASING RUMORS REGARDING RIFT BETWEEN FIELD MARSHAL PAPAGOS AND KING PAUL

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP82-00457R007600320003-4
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: S
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: November 16, 2016
• Document Release Date: April 14, 2000
• Sequence Number: 3
• Publication Date: April 30, 1951
• Content Type: REPORT

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Approved ROMOODDa * Q: 'C1r-FtDfPB2-(Ic0'# OX) 3200
CENTRAL 1 TELLIGENCE AGENCY REPORT NO.
COUNTRY Greece
SUBJECT
PLACE
ACQUIRED
DATE OF
INFO.
INFORMATION REPORT CO NO. 25X1A
Increasing Rumors Regarding. Rift between
Field Marshal Papagos and King Paul
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DATE D1STR. 30 Apr. 1951
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SUPPLEMENT 1 5X1 A
REPORT NO..
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Comments Presumably the clandestine Free Greece broadcast of
5 April 1951 is pus nt here p In a commentary emci"c i.ea "recce or Wars,"
sealing with supposed attempts of the "Papago3 clique" to implem-at
w A lovo& Aeatra'oi __ ("lightning") Plan (according to which Greece was
planning to foster revolution within Albania to provide an excuse for
intervention), it was stated that "there are persistent rumors that
Michael Kyrkos is on their side's (i.ee, that of Papagos)o Such an attack
on Kyrkos might well be an attempt, on the part of the KKK, to cloak him
with sufficiorit political "respectability" to permit his negotiating with
other Greek political parties, who right be eve ne. to do so if he were not
apparently disassociated w3 the KKE, f~ -
CLASSIFICATION SEC 'CONTROL - U.S. OFwgrj O I .,
1b There have reportedly been increasing rumors concerning a rift between
Field Marsha]. Papagoa and King Paul, according to Which the Palace is
said to have told Papagos to concern himself strictly with military
duties. This is interpreted by many Athenians as an indication that
the John Diakos newspaper attack against the Palace entourage (speci-
fically, Aristides Metaxas) was believed to have been inspired by
25X1(
21 "completely unconfirmed" rumor states that Papagos
is in Cori ac with chael Kyrkos; this allegedly, is the reason for
the Greek guerrilla radio attack on Kyrkos.** It 3.a also being said that,
by reaching an understanding with Kyrkos, Papagos in attempting to isolate
.the extreme left, thus paving the way to political cooperation between the
various factions ranging from the extreme right to the left, excluding
only, the M. Papagos is allegedly being guided by a newspaper article
written by Spyros Markezinis entitled "Transitional Government."
3. In addition, Papagos was trying to obtain the coopera-
tion of Constantine Maniadakis' Party for the Regeneration of Greece,
he Populist Unionist Party of Stephanopoulos and Kanellopoulos, and the
Union of Democratic Leftists of John Sophianopoulos.
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NONE& Comtt Constantine Maniadakis claimed early in March 1951
.that Eta s K in Which the Diakos letter was published, was now
entirely under the domination of Spyroc Markezinis, who would "stop at
nothing" to effect the Papagos solution.
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