About this episode
The episode discusses CIA operations in Greece post-WWII and current events related to the region.
Yesterday I had the Colonel back on for part 6 of our CIA Files series. This week we talked about Greece, and the British and American intelligence operations there in the wake of WWII. The primary motivation was to get Greece into NATO, but they had to deal with the native ELAS resistance force first. We also talked a little bit about Ivanka Trump’s and Jared Kushner’s plan to turn the island of Sazan, a former Soviet base, into a luxury resort. It’s just another example of current events tying into regional events of past generations, but this was a good conversation on Greece and a couple topics from things going on today. You can find Colonel Towner-Watkins on Twitter and Rumble . Podcast Summary * How the British & the Americans teamed up with Germans to fight the Greek resistance force, ELAS. * The regime change forced on Greece by the US and Britain, and how the native population responded. * How the Greek government and intelligence agencies teamed up to build a black site prison on one of the Greek islands. * The massive amount of money the US poured into Greece in the post WWII period, in the form of weapons, planes, communication equipment, and portable docks. * The…
People in this episode
Host: Ben Kelleran
Guest: Colonel Towner-Watkins
Topics covered
- CIA operations
- Greece post-WWII
- intelligence collaboration
- NATO
- media influence
- regional history
- current events
Keywords
- CIA
- Greece
- NATO
- intelligence operations
- ELAS
- Ivanka Trump
- Jared Kushner
- Sazan
- media influence
- post-WWII
Mentioned in this episode
Organizations: NATO, ELAS, British intelligence, American intelligence
Places: Greece, Sazan
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