REGIME ATTITUDE TOWARD FOREIGN POWERS

Created: 12/15/1967

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SUBJECT REGIME ATTITUDE TOWARD FOREIGN POWERS

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VAYS LIKE DE GAULLE'S FOREIGN POLICY (ALTHOUGH IT WOULD NOTwith IT) AND WOULD INCLUDE AN INCREASE inwith the EASTERN EUROPEAN COMMUNIST COUNTRIES,GREECE has TRADED on FAVORABLE terms in THE PAST. I^HiSTATED that SINCEPRIL the

PRIME MINISTER COLONEL GECRGIOS PflPADOPOULOS

SHOULD have REALIZED that GREECE has SEEM ABLE TO LIVE WITHOUT SUPPORT FROM the ALLIES; CONSEQUENTLY GREECE does NOT NEED the ALLIES. "IF the ALLIES NEED us FINE; IF not, they WILL GO their WAY AND WE WILL GO OURS."

2. DURING the INITIAL PHASEhe KING's COUNTER-COUP

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COMMENTED ON SEVERAL OCCASSIQMS THAT THE AMERICANS

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T:-ESE STATEMENTS WERE MADE 5EFGRE PAPADOPOULOS MET WITH UNITED STATES AMBASSADOR PHILLIPSBOUT NOON ON T0 HOURS H ECEMBER PAPADOPOULOS STATED THAT THE KING'S COUNTER-COUP "WAS SET UP BY THE CIA IN

THIS STATEMENT WAS MADE AFTER THE MEETING

BETWEEN APA30POULOS AND TKE DURING THE PERIOD OFOaPaDCPCuLCS GRADUALLY BECAME CONVINCED THAT THE AMERICANS WERE NOT ACTIVELY SUPPORTING THE COUNTER-COUP; HOWEVER, PoPftDOPOULOS CONTINUED TO BELIEVE THAT THE AMERICANS HAD SEEN AT LEAST FOREWARNED AND HAD QUIETLY "APPROVEDURING THE EARLY MORNING HOURS OF ECEMBER, WHEN IT HAD BECOME ABSOLUTELY CLEAR THAT THE KING COULD NOT MUSTER ANY SUPPORT -OR HIS MOVEMENT IN THE MILITARY, PAPADOPOULOS EXPRESSED CONCERN AS TO THE FUTURE RSCOG'IITION OF THE GREEK GOVERNMENT BY FOREIGN POWERS. SPECIFICALLY, PAPADOPOULOS EXPRESSED FEAR THAT THE ALLIES, AND PARTICULARLY TKE UNITED STATES, MIGHT NOT RECOGNIZE THE JUNTA AS THE LEGAL GOVERNMENT OF GREECE. AS THE DAY OF ECEMBER PROGRESSED, VARIOUS J'Jt.'TA OFFICERS, ESPECIALLY

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EXTREMISTS, EEGAN ADVISING PAPADOPOULOS THAT HE MUST NOT

"SURRENDER TO THE ALLIES IN ORDER TO GAINOINTING

OUT TO PAPADOPOULOS THAT THE ALLIES, AND PARTICULARLY THE UNITED

STATES, NEED GREECE NOW IF NATO IS TO BE MAINTAINED AND IF

GREEK NEUTRALISM IS TO BE PREVENTED. ALTHOUGH INTERNATIONAL

ACCEPTANCE IS DESIRABLE, IT IS NOT NECESSARY FOR THE REGIME'S

INTERVAL SURVIVAL. FURTHERMORE, GREECE COULD FIND "COUNTRIES

WHICH WOULD ACCEPT HER". PAPADOFCULOS HAS RESISTED EFFORTS 8Y

THE EXTREMISTS TOARD STAND TOWARD THE KING AND THE

AMERICANS THROUGH THE GREEK PRESS. PAPADOPOULOS STATED THAT ONE OF

THE EXCESSES OF THEPRIL REGIME WAS ITS OVER-REACTION TO MANY

PROBLEMS, AND HE DID NOT WANT THE JUNTA TO MAKE THE SAME MISTAKE

NOW. PAPADOPOULOS EXPRESSED THE BELIEF THAT THE UNITED STATES

WOULD RECOGNIZE THE JUNTA AS THE LEGAL GOVERNMENT OF GREECE

SIMPLY BECAUSE IT WAS REALISTIC TO DO SO. HE EXPRESSED CONFIDENCE

THAT THE UNITED STATES DOES NOT WANT TO ABANDON ITS HEAVY

If!VESTMENT IN GREECE AND TO ENDANGER THE NATO ALLIANCE FURTHER. LSM

DEFINITELY WORRIED ABOUT FOREIGN, AND ESPECIALLY UNITED STATES,

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