Greece/Deep state

Greece/Deep state (Deep state)
Abbreviation	EL/DS
Interest of	Monty Woodhouse
The Greek deep state

The Greek deep state is not well documented.

1920s

From the 1920s to the early 1950s, the arms manufacturer Prodromos Bodosakis-Athanasiadis had the leadership of the country in his pocket.

After WW2

In 1944, Operation Gladio was set up Greece. The Greek Stay Behind was known as 'Red Sheep' (Κόκκινη Προβιά), and later installed a military dictatorship in the 1960s.

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.

1980s

On 1 March 1988, "terrorists" shot dead Alexander J. Athanassiades, whose uncle Bodossaki Athanassiades attended the 1965 Bilderberg.

People

No Greeks are known to have attended Le Cercle.

• Kostas Karras - Attended all the Bilderbergs from 1979 to 1997
• Loukas Tsoukalis - 9 Bilderbergs, Bilderberg Steering Committee
• Dimitrios Papalexopoulos - 10 Bilderbergs, European Round Table of Industrialists
• Greek Bilderbergers

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