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What happened to the army first. This is part of the little twist that was added to Plan Prometheus. On April 20th, all the generals in the field, commanders of various outfits, were called to Athens for a meeting with the Minister of Defense. The Minister of Defense called this meeting on the basis of recommendations by Papadopoulos and that group. So all the generals were in Athens. This is key now: the night of April 20th onto the morning of the 21st, the button is pushed-execute Plan Prometheus, Suppose that you are, now, deputy in command of some...
...announced last night that the University will proceed with every means at its command in disciplinary action against every person who can be identified as disrupting the meeting-possibly including at least one member of the Faculty...
Point number one is, who were the men who made the coup? What are they like? Who are they? First is Papadopoulos. There were five men, by the way, that were the top command. The junta itself is small, the junior junta, probably included no more than 180 officers all told-of junior rank-and five men were in command. Now who are the five...
...asked the general in command-we appointed a new head of the intelligence services-to stop tapping our telephones. He was our appointee, and he tried very hard but he couldn't do it. And so then he told me something I didn't know, and I don't think most people, statesmen and politicians, knew, that in fact the Greek intelligence services were financed directly and administered directly by the CIA, so that there was just no hope that we could do anything. I brought this to the Cabinet. It was an important issue-and then...
...same enthusiasm that Americans once fought the Vietnamese. And the Laos campaign, which tested the very best troops that the Saigon regime could muster, has demonstrated that the Saigon troops just can't or won't fight effectively. Thus the whole Vietnamization strategy may be disintegrating. The U. S. Command in Saigon evidently thinks so: its revelation of yesterday's disastrous casualty figures appears to have been intended to created pressure on Nixon to slow the withdrawal of U. S. troops from Vietnam...