ASSASSINATION ATTEMPT AGAINST LEFTIST LEADER

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP78S01932A000100080044-2
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: C
• Document Page Count: 3
• Document Creation Date: December 9, 2016
• Document Release Date: January 13, 1999
• Sequence Number: 44
• Publication Date: August 30, 1974
• Content Type: CABLE

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SUBJECT: ASSASSINATION ATTEMPT AGAINST LEFTIST LEADER
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VASSOS LYSSARIDIS, MAVERICK LEFTIST AND CONFIDANT OF ARCHBISHOP
MAKARIOS, WAS SLIGHTLY WOUNDE:D IN AN ASSASSINATION ATTEMPT IN
NICOSIA EARLIER TODAY. THE SECRETAkY-?GENEF\AI_ OF HIS POLITICAL
PANTY'S YOUTH ORGANIZATION WHO ACCOMPAN: ED HIM WAS KILLED) AND HIS
WIFE WOUNDED'. FOLLOWING THE ATTACK, LYSSARIDIS TOOK R-EFUGE IN T'.-iE
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HIS SUPPORTERS TO SHOW SELF RESTRAINT AND NOT TAKE REPRISALS.
SPOKESMEN FOR HIS PARTY'S YOUTH ORGANIZATION ISSUED A SIMILAR
STATEMENT. OFFICIALS OF THE PARTY AND THE YOUTH ORGANIZATION
HAVE SCHEDULED A MEETING FOR LATER TODAY.
A DEMONSTRATION WAS HELD IN FRONT OF LYSSARIDIS' RESIDE h1 iX6
AFTER THE ASSASSINATION ATTEMPT IN WHICH PROTESTERS ACCUSED THE
CIA OF MASTERMINDING THE ATTACK.
ANOTHER DEMONSTRATION IS BEING PLANNED FOR LATER TODAY
BUT THE LOCATION IS UNKNOWN. THEE ARE NO INDICATIONS AT THIS TIME
THAT THE DEMONSTRATIONS WILL BE DIRECTED AT THE US EMBASSY.
LYSSARIDIS WENT INTO HIDING AFTER MAKARIOS' OVERTHROW, FEAR-
ING FOR HIS LIFE, AND REAPPEARED ONLY AFTER. GLAFKOS CLERIDES
BECAME ACTING PRESIDENT. THE ATTACK WAS PROBABLY PLANNED, MOST
LIKELY BY RIGHT-WING EXTREMISTS, SINCE THEN. IT MAY ALSO BE A
WARNING TO CLERIDES, WHO HAS JUST REMOVED THE LAST OF THOGUOSE
ASSOCIATED WITH THE RIGHT--WING SAMPSON REGIME AND REAPPOINTED
INDIVIDUALS ASSOCIATED WITH MAKARIOS TO KEY GOVERNMENT POSTS.
CLERIDES HAS ALSO ANNOUNCED HIS INTENTION TO CURB EOKA-B, THE
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