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erol · Post by **erol** » Mon 07 Mar 2016 12:42 pm

I know I am. Anyway I personally found the article below (by Robert F. Kennedy, Jr) helped me, so thought I would share it here. Worth a read imo.

http://www.politico.com/magazine/story/ ... nate=false

Laura B · Post by **Laura B** » Mon 07 Mar 2016 2:13 pm

Definitely worth the read. Thanks for posting it Erol.

PapaBravo · Post by **PapaBravo** » Mon 07 Mar 2016 3:19 pm

An excellent article that give s different perspective to the mid-east crisis. You will need to give up half an hour to read it, but it is, in my opinion, time well spent.

trooper · Post by **trooper** » Tue 08 Mar 2016 8:49 am

Well done Erol. Very interesting and illuminating.

desih · Post by **desih** » Tue 08 Mar 2016 3:16 pm

Many thanks Erol, hope people read it.

PapaBravo · Post by **PapaBravo** » Wed 09 Mar 2016 6:44 pm

LizA · Post by **LizA** » Sun 13 Mar 2016 1:29 pm

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Barney · Post by **Barney** » Sun 13 Mar 2016 9:46 pm

With all the CIA dabbling in the Middle East as evidenced by Erol's link one has to wonder if the Greek claims that the CIA was behind the Cyprus Problem have an element of truth in them, it's always been said that they were behind the anti communist Junta in Athens.

LizA · Post by **LizA** » Tue 15 Mar 2016 10:50 pm

Barney you may just be right! Not discussed much sadly but outside 'influence' it most definitely was. Keep digging. CIA recently had to release files on just this matter thanks to the Freedom of Information Act. The usual culprits are involved.

Barney · Post by **Barney** » Tue 15 Mar 2016 11:50 pm

LizA, Cypriots are frequently accused of blaming outsiders for their problems. There is some truth in what they say, after all George Ball, US Secretary of State, said in 1964 that the plan for Cyprus was partition.

PapaBravo · Post by **PapaBravo** » Wed 16 Mar 2016 11:50 am

Barney,

George Ball, US Secretary of State, said in 1964 that the plan for Cyprus was partition.

Do you have a link for this please?

erol · Post by **erol** » Wed 16 Mar 2016 1:12 pm

PapaBravo wrote:Barney,
George Ball, US Secretary of State, said in 1964 that the plan for Cyprus was partition.
Do you have a link for this please?

This is a claim made by Martin Packard.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/europe/4632080.stm

He recalls being asked to take a visiting US politician, acting secretary of state George Ball, around the island. Arriving back in Nicosia, says Martin, "Ball patted me on the back, as though I were sadly deluded and he said: That was a fantastic show son, but you've got it all wrong, hasn't anyone told you that our plan here is for partition?"

The official US plan at that time was the "Acheson Plan"

http://web.archive.org/web/201211102043 ... -%203.html

The Acheson plan

In the margins of the UN mediation in Geneva, Dean Acheson, the former Secretary of State, attempted to settle the problem by a political deal between Greece and Turkey. This would give Cyprus the choice of independence or union with Greece, in exchange for a sovereign Turkish base on the eastern panhandle of the Karpas peninsula and the cession to Turkey of the Greek island of Kastellorizon, which is just off the coast of Turkey. The Turkish Cypriots would have two or three areas in which they would have local self-administration and a resident international commissioner would look into complaints of discrimination. The plan was initially accepted in principle by both Greece and Turkey, but finally rejected by George Papandreou as 'partition masquerading in the rhetoric of enosis' because of the total opposition of Makarios. The Turks then rejected a revised version which sought to meet Greece's willingness to see a base leased to Turkey in Cyprus but not ceded.

Navek · Post by **Navek** » Wed 16 Mar 2016 1:20 pm

"Do you have a link for this please?"....
http://archives.chicagotribune.com/1964 ... e-makarios
Navek

Dalartokat · Post by **Dalartokat** » Wed 16 Mar 2016 4:32 pm

Navek wrote:"Do you have a link for this please?"....
http://archives.chicagotribune.com/1964 ... e-makarios
Navek

This from the American Archives lots of reading

http://2001-2009.state.gov/r/pa/ho/frus ... i/4758.htm

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