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Greece Gives Birth to Another Virulent Neo-Nazi Party
Is the U.S. Ambassador One of Its Proud Godfathers?
Lee, Andrew http://covertactionmagazine.com/2020/09/05/greece-gives-birth-to-another-virulent-neo-nazi-party-is-the-u-s-ambassador-one-of-its-proud-godfathers/
Publisher: CovertAction Magazine
Date Written: 05/09/2021
Year Published: 2021
Resource Type: Article
This article explores Greek far-right organizations such as Golden Dawn and the "Greeks for the Fatherland" party, as well as former far-right MP Ilias Kasidiaris. He further explores American involvement in fostering the Far Right in the "cradle of democracy."
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The U.S. Ambassador, Geoffrey Pyatt, was posted to Athens on October 24, 2016, immediately after completing his assignment in Ukraine where, as Ambassador from July 30, 2013, to August 18, 2016, he supervised the neo-Nazi-led coup in Maidan bringing that country further under NATO control. As pointed out in an earlier dispatch on Pyatt\s activities in Greece,
Pyatt oversaw the fall of the Tsipras government and the July 8, 2019 emergence of the openly pro-American government of Kyriakos Mitsotakis. Mitsotakis promptly appointed Panayiotis Kontoleon a former security officer of the U.S. embassy in Athens, whose father had also worked in the U.S. Embassy, as head of the Greek Intelligence Services (EYP). Panayiotis Kontoleon was an official of the British-based global security company G4S which had provided security for Pyatt's U.S. Embassy in Athens, as well as other U.S. embassies around the world.
The U.S. is rapidly augmenting its already large military footprint across the country. Under Pyatt's supervision, Greece has been integrating its military, political, and economic operations with Cyprus and Israel, and along with Egypt has been moving to dominate the Eastern Mediterranean.
The history of the bloody instrumentalization of the Far Right in the cradle of democracy, from the Truman Doctrine and post-WWII Civil War through the fascist rule by the Papadopoulos Colonels (April 21, 1967 to July 24, 1974) is well known to CAM readers. The emerging elements of the current fascist movements are a direct, linear legacy of those U.S. covert operations.
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