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• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP73B00296R000200030048-5
• Release Decision: RIFPUB
• Original Classification: S
• Document Page Count: 2
• Document Creation Date: December 19, 2016
• Document Release Date: March 29, 2002
• Sequence Number: 48
• Publication Date: February 1, 1971
• Content Type: TELEGRAM

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TO SECSTATE WASHDC PRIORITY 1981
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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
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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. ,
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