The previous post titled, “Israel’s role in the invasion and occupation of Cyprus part 1” (which can be accessed here) provided some background on the diplomatic maneuverings between Cyprus, Greece, Israel and Turkey before the Turkish invasion in 1974.
An article recently posted on Infognomon (which can be accessed here) written by M.Michail provides some information on the role of Israel around the days immediately preceding and following the invasion of Cyprus.
The German magazine, Der Spiegel in 19 August 1974, revealed that “... hiding behind this issue (i.e. the Turkish invasion of Cyprus) was Israel” and that “... the telephone line between Nicosia - Tel Aviv had been connected two days before the coup and only the embassy of Israel or Israeli journalists could use it” (from the Greek newspaper Kathimerini, 20/4/1975). This probably means that Israel and its embassy in Nicosia were aware of the coup to oust Makarios [this is interesting but probably many secret services knew about the invasion of Cyprus]
The Jews were, with a series of “errors” and “coincidences” during the Turkish invasion, continuously on the side of ATTILA [the code name used for the Turkish military operation]. The Athenian newspaper Ta Nea (27/2/1975) published that Israeli planes, at the beginning of July 1975, “accidentally” violated the Greek airspace of Cyprus and twice during the Turkish invasion of July 1974. However, amazingly the following event was also made to appear as “coincidental”: an Israeli navy boat coincided (!) to be within the Turkish invasion armada. And, indeed, collected the castaways of the Turkish destroyer, which was accidentally bombed by Turkish airplanes (from the newspaper Greek Tharros, 15/12/1979). The 42 survivors of the sinking of the Turkish destroyer "Kotzatepe",which previously belonged to the U.S. Navy, was transferred to the Israeli vessel in Haifa! [this is particularly strange as one would expect that Turkish ports would have been closer and more convenient]
http://antipodes-antipodean.blogspot.co ... on_27.html
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I don't know if Yialoser discovered this website and posted the above article before...
Anyway.. it seems to me that it's highly possible that Israel played for plan-B during the Turkish intervention in 1974...
Had Americans couldn't have stopped Greeks(Junta or the new government) going war with Turkey, Turks would have stopped advancing and US would have to intervened "in the other side to do the same thing"... It would have had profound consequences... Cyprus would have become a huge American military base that would have assisted, protected the Israeli state, closely and effectively contributed the Anglo-American-EU plans regarding the middle east and caucauses...
[/quote]K: And the second consideration that I must put before you is that if the threat of war between Greece and Turkey isn't ended, we will have to ask you to let us [1 line not declassified].
E: Yes.
K: And we will have to do the same in—on the other side and [less than 1 line not declassified] it will have profound consequences.
