COMMENTS OF FORMER EOKA-B LEADER RETIRED MAJOR KAROUSOS ON HIS RETURN TO ATHENS

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• Publication Date: March 29, 1974

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THIS IS AN INFORMATION REPORT, NOT FINALLY EVALUATED INTELLIGENCE
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GREECE/CYPRUS
MARCH 1974
COMMENTS OF FORMER EOKA-B LEADER RETIRED MAJOR KAROUSOS ON HIS
RETURN TO ATHENS
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DATE DISTR. 29 MARCH 1974
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MARCH 1974. FORMER EOKA-B LEADER majOR /RET.,
GEORGIOS KAROUSOS COMMENTED AS roLLows
CONCERNING HIS PAST ACTIVITIES AND PRESENT SITUATION--
A. KAROUSOS WENT TO CYPRUS TO FIGHT ALONGSIDE LT. GEN.
/RET./ GEORGIOS GRIVAS IN EOKA..8 PRINCIPALLY BECAUSE OF
HIS /KAROUSOSI/ OPPOSITION TO THE REGIME OF GEORGIOS P A P A -
OOP OUL OS
COM-ENT--KAROUSOS WAS IMPLICATED IN
THE 13 DECEMBER 1967 ABORTIVE COUNTERCOUP or RING CONSTANTINE
AND WAS CASHIERED FROM THE GREEK ARK/ AS RESULT./ KAROUSOS
HOPED EVENTUALLY TO PLAY AN ANTI..PAPADOPOULOS ROLE FROM CYPRUS.
WITH THIS IN MIND, KAROUSOS CONSISTENTLY SUPPORTED A MODERATE
LINE WITHIN EOKA-B AND SOUG4T TO OROMO1E BETTER RELATIONS
BETWEEN GRIVAS AND CYPRIOT PRESIDENT MAKARIOS.
4 B. WHEN AFTER GRIVAP DEATH KAROUSOS BECAME LEADER OF
EOKA-Br THE Rsums wolco HAD BEEN INSTALLED BY THE 25 NOVEMBER 1973
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COUP IN ATHENS IMMEDIATELY SOUGHT TO APPLY PRESSURE ON KAROUSOS
IN ORDER TO GET DIRECT CONTROL OVER KAROUSOS AND THE EOKA-B. THE
GREEK REGIME SENT ARMS AND AMMUNITION TO EOKA-B AND OTHERWISE
MADE IT CLEAR TO KAROUSOS THAT HE WAS TO TAKE ORDERS FROM ATHENS'.
C. KAROUSOS BALKED AT THE PRESSURE FROM ATHENS. RATHER
THAN,SUBmIT TO ATHENS' CONTROL, HE SECRETLY LEFT CYPRUS TOGETHER
WITH A SMALL GROUP OF CLOSE SUPPORTERS ON A DAME WHICH. AFTER
A BRIEF STOP IN KASTELORIZON ISLAND /36-01E1N, 29-34E/, EVENTUALLY
REACHED RHODES. ON RHODES THEY WERE MET BY REPRESENTATIVES OF
BRIGADIER GENERAL DIMITRIOS.IOANNIDIS ,THE STRONG MAN
OF THE PRESENT GREEK REGIME, AND WERE ESCORTED TO ATHENS.
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DISBEM-- EMBASSY AND DEFATT AT ATHENS./
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