“Finish it off, they’re pressuring us from the outside”

Fifty-two years on from the coup staged by the Athens junta and its local branch, EOKA B, the historical truth cannot be read two ways. There may have been failures of judgement. But there’s one crucial distinction: betrayal is not a mistake!

We can argue for hours about what Makarios should have done and didn’t. But the junta and its Cypriot outfit handed Cyprus to the Turks, in the service of American interests. They were being run by American intelligence: the CIA....