STAFF NOTES: MIDDLE EAST AFRICA SOUTH ASIA

• Document Type: FOIA
• Collection: FOIA Collection
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): 05458958
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: U
• Document Page Count: 3
• Document Creation Date: December 28, 2022
• Document Release Date: August 30, 2018
• Case Number: F-2016-01647
• Publication Date: March 15, 1974

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Cyprus,
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� Athens,
has replaced its, main "contact" in EOKA-B, the late
General George Grivas' pro-enosis guerrilla organi-
zation that has waged a terrorist campaign against
the government of President Makarios since early
1972. Greek Army Colonel Dertilis reportedly has
arrived on the island to take up this role from
Major Georgios Karousos, a former Grivas lieutenant
who ran afoul of Greek Cypriots in the group.
Karousos, a retired Greek Army officer, has been
evacuated to Greece with the connivance cif the Greek
Government and apparently under the watchful eye of
Cypriot intelligence.
Cypriot officials fear that'.the arrival of
Dertilis, who apparently is close to the leadership
in Athens and also to other Greek mainland officers
still included in the EOKA-B leadership, portends
a Greek attempt to wrest control of the movement
from Cypriot elements. The Cypriots themselves are
split over tactics. One group would resume the
anti-Makarios terrorism, which has been shelved
since Grivas' death in January. The other group
would pursue their elusive goal of uniting Cyprus
with Greece by more conventional political means.
Makarios has been briefed on the details of
the transfer of the two mainlanders and the possible
implications of new Greek interference in Cypriot
affairs, but reportedly retains some hope that
Athens intends its new man to exert a moderating
influence. He is,-honetheless, wary of the
Ioannidis regime and extremely suspicious of its
intentions toward Cyprus.
Some reporting has indicated that Ioannidis
has not developed a Cyprus policy; still other .�
reports say that he and his military colleagues will
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take a hard line toward settling the intercom-
munal
problem.:The2.talka,aimed at ending the
decades-old argumentOverrights.for the minority
Turkish Cypriots have however, and
Athens may have 'totakea,'stand .on the issue sooner
rather than later.
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