Greece/Deep state
Greece/Deep state (Deep state) | |
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Abbreviation | EL/DS |
Interest of | Monty Woodhouse |
The Greek deep state |
The Greek deep state is not well documented.
Contents
1920s
From the 1920s to the early 1950s, the arms manufacturer Prodromos Bodosakis-Athanasiadis had the leadership of the country in his pocket.[citation needed]
After WW2
1950s
Józef Retinger consulted Panagiotis Pipinelis when setting up the Bilderberg. Pipelinis became Greek Prime Minister in 1963.
1960s
Coup d'etat
On 21 April 1967, weeks before the scheduled elections, a group of right-wing army officers led by Brigadier General Stylianos Pattakos and Colonels George Papadopoulos and Nikolaos Makarezos seized power in a coup d'état. The coup leaders gained control of the Athens by placing tanks in strategic positions around the city. At the same time, a large number of small mobile units were dispatched to arrest leading politicians, authority figures, and ordinary citizens suspected of left-wing sympathies, according to lists prepared in advance.
1970s
1980s
On 1 March 1988, "terrorists" shot dead Alexander J. Athanassiades, whose uncle Bodossaki Athanassiades attended the 1965 Bilderberg.
1990s
People
No Greeks are known to have attended Le Cercle.[1]
- Kostas Karras - Attended all the Bilderbergs from 1979 to 1997
- Loukas Tsoukalis - 9 Bilderbergs, Bilderberg Steering Committee
- Dimitrios Papalexopoulos - 11 Bilderbergs, European Round Table of Industrialists
- Greek Bilderbergers