OENO-THE FEDERATION OF GREEK SEAMEN AND PORT WORKERS ORGANIZATIONS

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP82-00457R000100250007-0
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: S
• Document Page Count: 2
• Document Creation Date: November 9, 2016
• Document Release Date: December 1, 1998
• Sequence Number: 7
• Publication Date: August 1, 1946
• Content Type: IR

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0;, In accordance with the orders of the pre-oleoticn Governments p shi pa lean- _
:ing for abroad were zsannod by men of both 0EdO and PNO, but as it was
noticed that the cretins of those ships which were maimed by OEZi0 went on
strikep the Government at that time ordered that 'crows should only be
engaged frc::a PJJO0 which collaborated with all other national organiza-
tions in Greece,. Following this order, members of 010 who now realized
its political an=7. communistic aims, wont over to PI4O0
7o The leaders of OF.NU then decided to return to Greece with the object of
b:7e,king up the collaboration of PNO with other seemena s organizations
and to receive further instructions f r o t u i KSZL To onzur e
their return to Great Britain? Kollios and Abatielos brought their wives
(both British Co :iuniete) with them and have declared "hat if they wore
unable to return in the nori al ~rrtiy, :.rtc:y : o-,.:ld co 'co sroretlyo
8t, Xmuediately upon their arrival at Piraeus they issued revolutionary pam-
phlets calling upon seamen and port workers to strike and accusing the
present Government of being fasoist. Articles dispatched by them to the
??EllenikaNee published in .London portrayed conditions in Greece as
terroristic.
9, The present General Secretary of O1 0, Benakos, is regularly in touch with
the Soviet Embassy in Athens., while Kollios is a meriber of the Committee
of the Piraeus branch of the Greco-Soviet League,,
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