Kissinger Prodded Turkey Invasion, Sources Tell Larisa Alexandrovna

[Hissyspit]

http://rawstory.com/news/2007/Intelligence_officials_confirm_Kissinger_role_in_0626.html

Intelligence officers confirm Kissinger role in Turkish invasion
Larisa Alexandrovna and Muriel Kane
Published: Wednesday June 27, 2007

Release of CIA’s ‘Family Jewels’ provides insight into political juggernaut and Bush Administration adviser

Former Secretary of State Henry Kissinger pushed for the 1974 Turkish invasion of Cyprus and allowed arms to be moved to Ankara for an attack on that island in reaction to a coup sponsored by the Greek junta, according to documents and intelligence officers with close knowledge of the event.

Nearly 700 pages of highly classified Central Intelligence Agency reports from the 1970's, known collectively as the "Family Jewels," are slated for public release today. However, the National Security Archive had previously obtained four related documents through the Freedom of Information Act and made them public Friday.

“In all the world the things that hurt us the most are the CIA business and Turkey aid,” Kissinger declares in one of those documents, a White House memorandum of a conversation from Feb. 20, 1975. On the surface, the comment seems innocuous, but the context as well as the time period suggests Kissinger had abetted illegal financial aid and arms support to Turkey for its 1974 Cyprus invasion.

In July and August of 1974, Turkey staged a military invasion of the island nation of Cyprus, taking over nearly a third of the island and creating a divide between the south and north. Most historians consider that Kissinger – then Secretary of State and National Security Advisor to President Gerald Ford – not only knew about the planned attack on Cyprus, but encouraged it.

Some Greek Cypriots believed then, and still believe, that the invasion was a deliberate plot on the part of Britain and the US to maintain their influence on the island, which was particularly important as a listening post in the Eastern Mediterranean in the wake of the October 1973 War between Israel, Egypt, Jordan and Syria.

MORE

[acmavm]

1. Good old Henry, one of the biggest spreaders of suffering and

death the planet has ever seen.

[cascadiance]

2. Ah, you beat me to it. Was telling Larisa I was going to put this up earlier...

Kick and recommend...

Lived in Ankara for five years not too long before this happened as a kid...