CYPRUS

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP79R00890A000700080008-4
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: S
• Document Page Count: 6
• Document Creation Date: December 21, 2016
• Document Release Date: June 4, 2008
• Sequence Number: 8
• Publication Date: August 29, 1956
• Content Type: BRIEF

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underground (ROIBA) on J16 August, exi~i.red 'at ',midnight Monday and
terrorist bombings and shootings Zyprus were immediately resumed.
A. EOKA's offer of the truce, "to allow Britain to show its good
faith", was-linked with demands that the British re-open
negotiations for a settlementof the Cyprus crisis with exiled
Archbishop Kakarios no later than 27 August.
State Dept. review
completed.
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EOKA's truce offer was probably inspired both bpi
British successes in anti-terrorist
operatioas'on Cyprus
and by the fear that popular support for EOKA'wasa
weakening
Another factor may well have been EOKA's belief tfi"l
Britain's increased need for Cyprus facilities during
the Suez crisis would make the UK more amenable to;
negotiation.
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London ' ;
actual director of Cypriot terrorist activities and personally
"involved in the choice of individual victims for murder".
II. Thus, the British are trying to discredit Makarios in the eyes of
.the Cypriot population, in hope that other nationalist leaders will
come' to the fore.
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Hardink o w yprus demand
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C. Meanwhile, some sections of the British press are urcTing
that Archbishop Makarios be-tried as a criminal.
II The Greek government continued to express the hope that Britain and
t Cypriots will resume negotiations.
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At ensn s. pledged Ito word for self-deter in ibr~ f r Cyprus axc
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intends "carry` 'e matter to the autumn
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T eP life ai' the present Greek overn'i n std
Cyprui iss ue, si a opposition accusations
f inact iaii on Cyc'i,
are gaining.?more popular support the longer a solution is poste
Almost the entire attention of Prime Minister Karamanli! ' z r ;,
is concentrated on Cyprus, while'vital domestic economic anti
financial measures are being postponed. This, too, adds to th.,
shakiness of the present government and gives the oppos;.ti(-:r)
additional ammunition.
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. ~ (X1 + d o h i' i de of the quest ian' the . Turkish brew tha e sta to
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u d ti t be maintained on Cyp~rus+ +rimar ly for strategic o s
Turkish President Bayar, on 24 August, told US Ambassador Warren
that, if Athens continues to press for enosis, "lots of
questions" would arise--such as the question of Turks in Grf. " .
xemains"unaltered.
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