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CIA-RDP73B00296R000200030048-5
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RIFPUB
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S
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2
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December 19, 2016
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March 29, 2002
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48
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Publication Date: 
February 1, 1971
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TELEGRAM
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ORM 3026 USE PREVIOUS 10.69 EDITIONS State Department revAepv~i complecfelease 2006/09/25 :CIA-RDP73B00296R000200030048-5 DEPARTMENT OF STATE Tf PER # TOTAL COPIES: CABLE SECRETARIAT ROUTING: EXDI; CABLE SECRETARIAT DISSEM BY BACKGROUND USE ONLY: FILE CS,'Ri DCI (el), D/DCI, DDP, SDO, D/OC' FILE RE . D/ONE, C/ I-M , - c SECRET HCM 192 PAGE 01 ATHENS 00542 021921Z 42 ACTION SS-45 INFO OC T- 01 C CCO-00,CIAE-0O, ) W P 021705Z FEB 71 FM AM EMBA SS Y ATHENS TO SECSTATE WASHDC PRIORITY 1981 S E C R E T ATHENS 0542 7 EXDIS AS I U!,!ENS'rEIN-MOnSF VISIT PRnrFFnC, CERTpTN PATT rN EMERGES FROM MEETINGS TO DATE WITH POLITICAL SECTION AND JUSMA GG .. 2. ON POLITICAL SIDE THEY APPARENTLY ARE SEEKING TO DEVELOP THESIS THAT THERE IS NO PROSPECT FOR RETURN TO CONSTITUTIONAL GOVERNMENT UNDER PAPADOPOULOS THEY ACCEPT AS GIVEN THAT HE IS HEADING MILITARY DICTATORSHIP USING WELL-KN014!N APPARATUS OF POLICE STATE TO MAINTAIN POWER. THEY ARE CAREFULLY DOCUMENTING THIS THESIS BY SELECTIVE INTERVIEWING OF OPPOSITION FIGURES DRAWN FROM LIST WITH WHICH THEY CAME EQUIPPED, PRESUMABLY NAMES SUGGESTED BY VARIOUS ANT I-REGIME SOURCES IN WASHINGTON. (THEY DECLINED TO REVEAL TO EMBASSY WHOM THEY ARE SEEING.) WE DOUBT WHETHER THIS LINE OF THEIR INQUIRY WILL PRODUCE CONCLUSION THAT A CHANGE IN EXISTING US POLICY OF SEEKING TO WORK PITH PAPADAPOULCS GOVERNMENT 0M WOULD ACCELERATE GREECE'S RETURN TO DEMOCRACY. AS EEr, FROM WE BELIEVE OUTCOME OF THIS ASPECT OF THEIR DISCUSSIONS SHOULD BE MANAGEABLE INSOFAR AS REBUTAL BY EXECUTIVE BRANCH WITNESSES IN ANY HEARINGS MAY BECOME NECESSARY. 3, THRUST OF THEIR INQUIRY IN MILITARY AREA. SEEMS TO US DESIGNED TO DEVELOP VIABLE BASIS ON WHICH US COULD DISASSOCIATE ITSELF FROM PRESENT REGIME . SINCE USG ETATEME,Y'T AT TIME OF RESUMPTION CF ARMS SHIPMENTS GAVE AS PRIME REA =-ON SECURITY INTERESTS IN EASTERN FiED ITTERRANEAN AND CONS OM IT AN T NEED FOR 1ILITA.RY rA, ITIEc HERE, AND DAVIES' TEST IIMONY LAST JUNE 9 E RDR73B01029S1 706oT2b?d30 8-5 'LEO HI G HL I ~$veid} 1od Reams? 2/9/2 Approved For Release 2006/09/25 : CIA-RDP73B00296R000200030048-5 DEPARTMENT OF STATE TELEGRAM PER TOTAL COPIES: REPRO BY SECRET PAGE 02 ATHENS 00542 0219212 WHAT MILITARY FACILITIES ARE INVOLVED, IN WHAT CIRCUMSTANCES JE COULD COUNT ON GREEK COOPERATION IN MAKING THEM AVAILABLE, WHAT US MILITARY PERSONNEL ARE CURRENTLY STATIONED HERE FOR OPERATIONAL ACTIVITIES, AND PROBABLY WHETHER ANY EXISTING US MILITARY PRESENCE IN GREECE POSES POTENTIAL RISK OF UNILATERAL US MILITARY INVOLVEMENT IN AREA. IN ATTEMPTING TO UNDERSTAND US-GREEK MILITARY RELATIONS, THEY SEEM TO BE RELYING HEAVILY ON THEIR EXPERIENCE IN SOUTHEAST ASIA WHICH IS IN NG SENSE PARALLEL. 4. ON BASIS STANDING DOD INSTRUCTIONS, PRESUMABLY CONCURRED IN BY STATE, WE CANNOT BE FORTHCOMING IN DEALING WITH SUCH C't_E ST IONS . CON SE C~UEN TLY WE PROBABLY SHOULD BEGIN TO PLAN WHAT TACTICS CAN BE USED IF NEGATIVE RESULTS THEIR EFFORTS TO FIND OUT FACTS IN MILITARY iREA L EA D Ti;Z' TO CONCLUDE THAI OUR SECURITY INTERESTS IN GREECE ARE MINIMAL OR THAT IN EVENT OF SOME CRISIS, PARTICULARLY IN MOST LIKELY PROSPECT OF RESUMPTION OF ARAB-ISRAELI HOSTILITIES, THEY WOULD NOT BE AVAILABLE, AND HENCE THERE IS LITTLE NECESSITY FOR US TO COOPERATE WITH THE PRESENT GOG. , TA SCA Approved For Release 2006/09/25 : CIA-RDP73B00296R000200030048-5