When he came to power in late 1963, the Greek Prime Minister George Papandreou, according to his close circle, discovered that his own intelligence agency, KYP, was in fact reporting directly to the CIA and that he himself was only receiving reports that had first been vetted by US intelligence advisers.
This gave me a sense of déjà vu. A left-leaning investigative journalist named Soner Yalçın has written a history of the Turkish Intelligence Sevice (Bay Pipo). On pages 100-101 of this book we learn that following the 1960 coup one of the officers involved, Alparslan Türkeş (who later went on to found a far-right political party) inspected the Ministry of the Interior offices and noticed a separate office there staffed by Americans. He inquired about this and was told that they were assisting in the fight against communism. Türkeş investigated further and discovered that all external documents arriving at the ministry first of all passed through this office. Türkeş ordered an immediate end to this practice and told the Americans to leave the building. However, a CIA official named Arthur V. Miller then took Türkeş out to dinner several times, and he subsequently received a letter from the American Embassy informing him that the office he had discovered was a CIA office. The letter stressed the amount of assistance and financial support that was being channeled into police training through this office. Türkeş was eventually pursuaded to change his mind and allow the office to continue operating.
Yalçın claims on pages 72-73 of the same book that in the fifties the CIA was directly paying the salaries of a portion of the intelligence service staff.
I find this to be an interesting parallel, and one that may be significant for the recent history of Cyprus given the role played by the Greek and Turkish secret services, and the Gladio/sheepskin organisations in those countries that were connected to these intelligence services, in fomenting ethnic conflict on the island.
