Greece opens Cold War files: 1950s Communist and regional intelligence declassified

Greece’s concealed quality work has taken different step toward transparency, releasing scores of declassified documents from the 1950s, Kathimerini reported connected Wednesday. The documents screen Communist activities within Greece and abroad, arsenic well arsenic developments successful neighboring countries, with plans to gradually unfastened much of the archives successful the future.

A total of 123 documents, comprising astir 2,000 scanned pages from 1953 to 1959, are present available connected the National Intelligence Service (NIS) website.

This marks the 2nd batch of declassified files published by the NIS. The archetypal release, two years ago, focused connected Cyprus and included documents from the Turkish penetration successful July and August 1974 and its aftermath. That merchandise coincided with the 50th day of the invasion, which followed an unsuccessful coup by supporters of union with Greece.

The latest files shed airy connected Communist activities successful Greece and among Greeks abroad, arsenic well arsenic quality connected Turkey, the Balkans, and the Middle East. The play covered came soon aft the 1946–49 Greek Civil War, when the Communist Party was banned.

The NIS announced it intends to found a regular signifier of publishing declassified materials, provided they are astatine slightest 50 years old.