U.S. Involvement In Greece Alleged

Press, Volume CIX, Issue 32273, 16 April 1970, Page 17

U.S. Involvement In Greece Alleged

(N.Z.P.A.-Reuter— Copyright) PARIS, April 15. The American Central Intelligence Agency (C.1.A.) and the American Army are the real masters behind the Greek military junta, a French politician, Mr Jean - Jacques ServanSchreiber, said in Paris yesterday. Mr Servan-Schreiber arrived back from Greece on Monday accompanying the Greek composer, Mr Mikis Theodorakis, unexpectedly released from detention as an alleged risk to public security. The secretary-general of the French Radical Socialist Party told the evening newspaper, “Le Monde,” yesterday that he' had proof of American involvement in Greece. “I am absolutely convinced, and I have proof, that the people who govern Greece are the C.I.A. and the American Army,” Mr ServanSchreiber said. “This is why I think it is ridiculous for the Democrats to reserve their blows for the junta, which is apparently in power. In the future we must, in my opinion, attack the root of the problem and not its external manifestations,” he said. Mr Servan-Schreiber denied rumours that he would defend the Greek regime before the Council of Europe today. “Is it reasonable to think that a Left-wing politician could take up the defence of a regime where all liberties j

are flouted and in this way commit moral and political suicide?” he asked. He added that he would tell the European body—from which Greece withdrew last December to avoid being suspended—what he had seen in Greece and who was the master there. Mr Theodorakis was spending his first day of freedom in a French hospital, but authorities were keeping his whereabouts a secret. He would not be able to talk to other Greek exile leaders for a few days, Mr Servan-Schreiber said. “It is better that way.”