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Article: Now it can be told. (Soviet role in Greece)
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- National Review
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- February 3, 1992
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GREECE for 15 years following the fall of the Colonels was a cauldron of political ferment, and it was widely suspected that Soviet covert operations had a lot to do with it.
The Soviets of course denied any such activity. But now, with the breakup of the Soviet empire, we are getting confirmation from several directions, starting with a former deputy director of the KGB mission in Athens, Viktor P. Gundarev. He paid a dramatic return visit here last fall to reveal a number of covert operations which, as he delicately put it, "I suppose are not very well known."
Speaking at an international conference hosted jointly by Roy Godson's Washington-based ...