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Zan, actually the scenario that Pyr described is one that is accepted by many Cypriot and International political analysts. Makarios Drousiotis a well known historian has published a book regarding this.
It seems that the whole Coup-Invation thing was pre agreed between the Greek Junta, the Turkey and the CIA. The agreed scenario was to kill Makarios, Turkey to invade from the North and Greece from the South and establish a pre agreed ceasefire line more or less to where the Green Line today is.
The failure to kill Makarios during the coup meant that Sampson or whoever puppet they chose to put their could not sign the agreement of double Enosis as only the elected president could do this. Of course Makarios would never have done something like this.
This scenario is supported by a number of events that happened during those days:
a) why were the greek submarines that were patroling the northcoast of Cyprus ordered to abandon the area. According to one of the submarines captain, if ordered the two submarines would have easily sank 90% of the landing fleet and thus leading to the cancelation of the landing.
b) GC soldiers who went to man the GC heavy antiship artilery in Pentadaktylos the night before the landing found out that all the moving parts of the guns were missing and that they couldn't fire. Some National Guard Greek officers probably removed them the previous night.
c) Greek airforce planes stationed in the island of Rhodes (30 minutes from Cyprus) were grounded for 3 days with the pilots in their cockpits and never got permition to take of.
d) According to Nicosia residents British UN soldiers were puting signs on the land posts directing the Turkish troops as to where to stop.
e) The UN soldiers (Canadians and Argentinian) only fought in two instances. To keep the Nicosia airport and to keep the Ledra Palace hotel. These were the two main entrances to the GC section of Nicosia. Obviously Turkey attempted to go beyond what was agreed and thus the UN troops actually engaging in the fight.
According to historians the Greek Junta propably collapsed in the face of the failure to kill Makarios. This meant that the plan could not go ahead. On the other hand it seems that Turkey was not prepared to leave the chance go and acted alone.
To be honest I don't know whether this is actually what happened and I am sure we will not find anytime soon. I have to admit though that this is a possible scenario that ties well with the antics of Kissinger and the CIA of the time.