Scribd Logo
Upload

Welcome to Scribd!

  • 319 views

    Greece and The Issue of Terror

    Uploaded by

    Vassilios Damiras
    Greece has a history of ties between terrorist groups and politicians from the radical left-wing Panhellenic Socialist Movement (PASOK) party. [PASOK] won elections in 1981 on an anti-NATO platform and hosted many terrorist conferences in Greece. Several PASOK politicians received military training in Palestinian and Lebanese terrorist camps and maintained close contacts with these groups. Some are alleged to have ties to the domestic Greek terrorist group November 17. The document outlines several PASOK officials who facilitated meetings and transit for international terrorists like Abu Nidal in Greece during the 1980s.

    Copyright:

    Attribution Non-Commercial (BY-NC)
    Download as DOC, PDF, TXT or read online from Scribd

    Greece and The Issue of Terror

    Uploaded by

    Vassilios Damiras
    319 views2 pages
    Greece has a history of ties between terrorist groups and politicians from the radical left-wing Panhellenic Socialist Movement (PASOK) party. [PASOK] won elections in 1981 on an anti-NATO platform and hosted many terrorist conferences in Greece. Several PASOK politicians received military training in Palestinian and Lebanese terrorist camps and maintained close contacts with these groups. Some are alleged to have ties to the domestic Greek terrorist group November 17. The document outlines several PASOK officials who facilitated meetings and transit for international terrorists like Abu Nidal in Greece during the 1980s.

    Original Title

    Greece and the issue of Terror

    Copyright

    © Attribution Non-Commercial (BY-NC)

    Available Formats

    DOC, PDF, TXT or read online from Scribd

    Did you find this document useful?

    Is this content inappropriate?

    Greece has a history of ties between terrorist groups and politicians from the radical left-wing Panhellenic Socialist Movement (PASOK) party. [PASOK] won elections in 1981 on an anti-NATO platform and hosted many terrorist conferences in Greece. Several PASOK politicians received military training in Palestinian and Lebanese terrorist camps and maintained close contacts with these groups. Some are alleged to have ties to the domestic Greek terrorist group November 17. The document outlines several PASOK officials who facilitated meetings and transit for international terrorists like Abu Nidal in Greece during the 1980s.

    Copyright:

    Attribution Non-Commercial (BY-NC)
    Download as DOC, PDF, TXT or read online from Scribd
    Download as doc, pdf, or txt
    319 views2 pages

    Greece and The Issue of Terror

    Uploaded by

    Vassilios Damiras
    Greece has a history of ties between terrorist groups and politicians from the radical left-wing Panhellenic Socialist Movement (PASOK) party. [PASOK] won elections in 1981 on an anti-NATO platform and hosted many terrorist conferences in Greece. Several PASOK politicians received military training in Palestinian and Lebanese terrorist camps and maintained close contacts with these groups. Some are alleged to have ties to the domestic Greek terrorist group November 17. The document outlines several PASOK officials who facilitated meetings and transit for international terrorists like Abu Nidal in Greece during the 1980s.

    Copyright:

    Attribution Non-Commercial (BY-NC)
    Download as DOC, PDF, TXT or read online from Scribd
    Download as doc, pdf, or txt
    of 2

    Greece and the issue of Terror

    In 1981, Andreas Papandreou and his radical Panhellenic Socialist Movement


    (PASOK) won the national general elections. A spellbinding orator, he rode a
    political platform pledging to remove U.S. military bases from Greece and to take
    Greece out of both NATO and the then European Community. Since then,
    Athens and her surrounding towns have played host to a variety of conferences
    and meetings by terrorist representatives and spokesmen, including PLO
    officials, Hamas, Sinn Fein, and Libyan terrorists.

    In 1986 Papandreou, himself addressed one such meeting, calling "liberation


    movements" the "instruments for the historical change and progress of our
    times." In fact, Papadreou's 1981 election victory was in part underwritten by
    Qaddafi, who secretly transferred as estimated $4 million via a major Greek bank
    to help finance the campaign. Eventually, Qaddafi's economic largess towards
    the Greek socialist grew to as much as $20 million yearly.

    PASOK itself is an outgrowth of an underground organization called


    the Panhellenic Liberation Movement (PAK), which Papandreou created while in
    exile in Sweden and Canada to fight the military dictatorship then in power in
    Greece (1967-1974). Several former PAK radicals, trained and indoctrinated in
    Middle East terrorist camps, and eventually became member of the various
    Socialist administrations.

    One of them is Kostas Tsimas, then head of the Greek Information Service--the
    Intelligence Agency and, as such, in control of the country's principal intelligence
    apparatus. Tsimas trained in Palestinian terrorist camps in Syria and Lebanon.
    He has retained close contacts with them and has been among their most
    influential protectors in the Greek political establishment.

    Sifis Valyrakis, second in command of the Ministry of Public Order in the 1980s,
    which controls Greece's national police, trained at camps in Lebanon. In 1976,
    two years after the overthrown of the Greek military dictatorship, he was arrested
    by authorities and sentenced to seven months in prison for smuggling forty
    Kalashnikov assault rifles into Greece. He never served a day, and the following
    year Papandreou nominated him as PASOK candidate for parliament. Citing
    intelligence files, former Athens police detectives claim that Valyrakis is one
    of several PASOK associates who are tied to November 17.

    Another Greek official linked with international terrorism Vassilis Konstantineas,


    a senior foreign-ministry official and influential member of PASOK's international-
    relations committee. Western intelligence sources and Greece's own police files
    revealed that in 1983 Konstantineas and Tsimas secretly met Abu Nidal upon
    his arrival at Athens Airport (Nidal was reportedly disguised as a Greek Orthodox
    priest). Later they held negotiations in a small hotel in downtown Athens. On the
    table was an arrangement under which the Abu Nidal organization would have
    residency and transit privileges in Greece, and could operate a clandestine
    headquarters in Athens.

    1
    Since then, various terrorists have traveled via Athens. The aforementioned
    names are still play influential role in Greek politics. Another influential socialist
    politician with dubious contacts is Costas Laliotis. Specifically, he is the
    president of extreme guy groups and anarchist groups in Greece. In addition, he
    served as top minister in various ministerial posts.

    You might also like