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Carassava, Anthee. "Accused of Kidnapping, 10 Agents Face Lawsuit." New York Times, 29 Dec. 2005. [http://www.nytimes.com]

On 28 December 2005, Greek lawyer Frangiscos Ragoussis "filed a lawsuit against 10 people he contends are British and Greek intelligence agents, on behalf of 28 Pakistanis working in the country who say they were kidnapped and tortured by the agents after the July 7 terrorist bombings in London." The Greek investigative newspaper Proto Thema "ran the names of a number of the people it said were agents involved in the case [and] said the British agent it named was the Athens station chief for British intelligence. The newspaper ... said the Briton had led the covert operation with another British intelligence officer whom it did not name."

Carr, John. "Greek Paper Prints Photo of 'MI6 Agent.'" Times Online (London), 5 Jan. 2006. [http://www.timesonline.co.uk]

"A photograph purporting to be Britain's top MI6 agent in Greece was published today on the front page" of the Athens newspaper Eleftherotypia. Controversy is "continu[ing] over the alleged role of British agents in the arrest and supposed abuse of a group of Pakistanis living in Athens."

Dimitrakis, Panagiotis. "Greek Military Intelligence and the Turkish 'Threat' During the 1987 Aegean Crisis." Journal of Modern Greek Studies 25 (2007): 99–127.

The author argues that "during the 1987 crisis, Turkish armed forces did not constitute an imminent threat to Greece despite the hostile rhetoric of Ankara. Greek military intelligence was able to confirm Turkish passivity and inform Greek Prime Minister Andreas Papandreou not to expect any Turkish hostile act over the Aegean Sea continental shelf before the Greeks might have taken precipitous action."

Lardner, George, Jr. "History of U.S.-Greek Ties Blocked." Washington Post, 17 Aug. 2001, A21. [http://www.washingtonpost.com]

James E. Miller, a retired State Department historian, says that the U.S. Government Printing Office is withholding distribution of the volume of the Foreign Relations of the United States (FRUS) series that deals with Greece in the period 1964-1968 because of CIA objections to its publication. According to Miller, CIA officials are concerned about documents regarding "two proposals to influence Greek politicians and elections."

Nomikos, John M. "The Greek Intelligence Service and Post-9/11 Challenges." Journal of Intelligence History 4, no. 2 (Winter 2004). [http://www.intelligence-history.org/jih/journal.html]

From abstract: "This article points out the new responsibilities that the Greek Intelligence Service (NIS-EYP) had to shoulder in the last decade because of the current reform strategy which introduced several fundamental innovations. It also concentrates on the development of post-9/11 Cold War challenges and how NIS-EYP could respond to the new threats in the coming decades."

Nomikos, John M. "The Internal Modernization of the Greek Intelligence Service (NIS-EYP)." International Journal of Intelligence and Counterintelligence 17, no. 3 (Fall 2004): 435-448.

The Greek National Intelligence Service (NIS-EYP) "constitutes a self-standing civil public agency; its political head is Greece's Minister of Public Order.... The Intelligence Council is the coordinating body of NIS-EYP operations."

Nomikos, John M. "Terrorism, Media, and Intelligence in Greece: Capturing the 17 November Group." International Journal of Intelligence and Counterintelligence 20, no. 1 (Spring 2007): 65-78.

"Throughout the first phase of domestic terrorism [1974-1989], the ... Greek elites" failed "to acknowledge the seriousness ... of the terroist threat and the need to tackle it drastically." The assassination in September 1989 of the first Greek politician to be killed by the 17 November group "marked the end of the tolerance of terrorism by both the political establishment and the general public." After 1999, with the Olympic Games 2004 scheduled for Athens, the Greek government began to demonstrate "a dedication and ... sense of urgancy to deal with the terrorist threat."

Papakhelas, Alexis. "Newly-Released CIA Records Shed Light on Events Leading Up to Greece's 1967 Coup" To Vima (Athens), 17 Aug. 2002, A6-A7.

FBIS document number: FBIS-WEU-2002-0818. Translated text available at http://www.fas.org/irp/news/2002/08/tv081702.html.

U.S. Department of State. Office of the Historian. Gen. ed., David S. Patterson. Foreign Relations of the United States, 1964-1968.

Xydis, Stephen G. "Coups and Countercoups in Greece 1967-1973 (with Postscript)." Political Science Quarterly 89, no. 3 (Fall 1974): 507-538.

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