'CIA PLOT TO KILL GREEK PRIME MINISTER'

Costas Karamanlis.

In 2008, the CIA, Mossad and MI6 reportedly plotted to kill Costas Karamanlis, the Prime Minister of Greece.

Karamanlis had improved ties with Russia and supported plans for a major pipeline to bring Russian gas to western Europe.

The Greek authorities have been investigating an alleged plot against Karamanlis.

As a result, in March 2012, a Greek prosecutor, Nikos Ornerakis, began pressing charges of 'treason and attempts to destabilise the country' against unknown suspects.

(Charges filed in alleged plot vs former Greek PM.)

15-year-old Andreas Grigoropoulos, shot dead on 6 December 2008 by a police officer.

In December 2008, a Greek teenager was shot 'by police'.

The prosecutor, Nikos Ornerakis, has concluded that the violence that erupted after the police shooting of the teenager was part of the plot to destabilise Greece.

The boy's killing led to snap elections.

15-year-old Andreas Grigoropoulos, shot dead on 6 December 2008 by a police officer, as part of a CIA plot?

Karamanlis lost to the Socialists in the 2009 elections.

The plot against Karamanlis was code-named "Pythia".

Ioannis Corantis, who headed Greece's National Intelligence Service at the time, told The Associated Press that he had received information about a suspected plot against Karamanlis.

Forest fires killed 84 people. Were the fires part of a CIA plot? Photo by Vberger

According to Prokopis Pavlopoulos, who was the interior and public order minister at the time, a series of disasters, from deadly wildfires in 2007 to the police shooting of a teenager in 2008 seemed "an awful lot of coincidences."

According to an article at defencenet, an intelligence report states that "the current generation of terrorists in Greece are controlled by Western intelligence agencies."

15-year-old Andreas Grigoropoulos was shot dead on 6 December 2008 by a police officer. (Copyright by Brazilian cartoonist Latuff.)

According to the Russian secret service, the plot against Karamanlis was hatched by the intelligence agency of 'a country allied to Greece'.

Pythia plot: Dealing with Russia could kill Greek ex-PM — RT. / Russian Spies Revealed Assassination Plot against Former PM.

Greek King and CIA-backed colonels

The CIA and its friends have been active in Greece for some time.

1. In 1944, in Greece, a large demonstration in Athens, against British interference in the government, was dissolved by gunfire from hidden soldiers.

25 protesters were killed and 148 wounded.

2. In 1967, in Greece, CIA-backed colonels carried out a military coup, resulting in a 'fascist' dictatorship.

Thousands of Greeks were tortured and murdered by the CIA backed 'fascists'.

(NATO's Secret Armies: Operation Gladio and Terrorism in Western Europe - Google Books Result )

3. In 1985, 15-year-old Michalis Kaltezas was shot by a police officer, triggering violent clashes between youths and the police in Athens.

4. In December 2008, Greek youths rioted after the police shot a boy

15-year-old Andreas Grigoropoulos was shot dead on 6 December 2008 by a police officer.

Witnesses told Greek TV the policeman fired directly at the boy.

The Colonels

The CIA, reportedly, has used acts of terrorism to keep the right-wing in power in Greece.

The following is from: Killing Hope: U.S. Military and CIA Interventions Since World War II - Google Books Result

"In the April 1967 national elections in Greece, the veteran liberal leader George Papandreou seemed certain to be re-elected as prime minister.

Papandreou had been elected in 1964 with the only outright majority in the history of modern Greek elections.

A joint campaign by the Greek military and the CIA to unseat him began immediately...

The Gladio 'Sheepskin' group was involved in a campaign of terrorist bombings, which were blamed on the left, and two days before the election campaign was to begin, a military coup brought to power a junta led by George Papadopoulos, a member of the Greek intelligence service KYP.

The CIA had created the KYP and Papadopoulos was on the payroll of the Agency for some 15 years.

Along with hundreds of other KYP officers, he had received training in anti-subversive techniques in the United States.

Papadopoulos was "a great believer in Hitler's new order" ...

He plunged Greece for the next seven years into a nightmare of martial law, censorship, arrests, beatings, torture and murders.

8,000 were killed in the first month alone.

Before the end of the year, Amnesty International reported that "torture as a deliberate practice is carried out by the Security Police and the Military Police."

The Greek junta contributed $549,000 to the 1968 Nixon-Agnew election campaign in the United States.

David Lange

Former New Zealand Prime Minister David Lange died of kidney failure aged 63.

(http://www.guardian.co.uk/obituaries/story/0,3604,1549077,00.html)

He was prime minister of the fourth Labour government from 1984 to 1989.

He promoted the idea of New Zealand having a nuclear-free policy.

This led to a 'coolness' in the relationship with the United States.

In 2002, Lange was diagnosed with amyloidosis, a rare, incurable blood plasma disorder

Reportedly, the USA wanted Lange dead.

The following is taken from: http://archives.cnn.com/2002/WORLD/asiapcf/auspac/03/28/nz.lange/

March 28, 2002

Former New Zealand Prime Minister David Lange has claimed that ex-U.S. Vice President Dan Quayle threatened to have him "liquidated" over his country's anti-nuclear policy in the 1980s.

The extraordinary allegation was first made in an interview with New Zealand's One News...

In the One News interview Lange said the apparent death threat was made by Quayle during a meeting with the Australian cabinet...

"There were veiled threats and there were specific threats," he said. "It was announced at one stage to the Australian cabinet that I would have to be liquidated."

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"Lange says US threatened to kill him."

That was the story from New Zealand's Independent newspapers Ltd on 27 March 2002.

Former US vice-president Dan Quayle reportedly told the Australian Cabinet that David Lange, New Zealand Prime Minister from 1984-89, "would have to be liquidated."

Mr Lange made the claim in a television interview about the pressure put on him over New Zealand's anti-nuclear stance during his time as prime minister.

"There were personal pressures," he said. "There were veiled threats. There were specific threats. There were threats made to other countries. (It) was announced to the Australian Cabinet at one stage that I would have to be liquidated."

He said the announcement had been made by Mr Quayle during a visit to Australia in 1989. Asked to repeat what Mr Quayle said, Mr Lange said: "I'd have to be liquidated."

Former New Zealand Labour Party president Bob Harvey suggested in 1999 that prime minister Norman Kirk had been poisoned by the CIA in 1974.

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