EYP confidential documents on the Cyprus issue

In November 2024, to mark the 50th anniversary of the Cyprus tragedy, the EYP released 58 intelligence reports compiled in July and August 1974 by the staff of the then KYP. This is the first time the leadership of the Greek secret services has declassified archival material, making it available to historical research and to any interested citizen.
The intelligence reports chronicle the coup against the President of the Republic of Cyprus, Archbishop Makarios, organized by the "invisible" dictator Dimitrios Ioannidis and his conspiratorial group, the civil war that broke out in the Greek Cypriot context due to the coup, the feverish military preparations by Turkey, and the two phases of Operation "Attila".
In the first part of the present volume, historian Tassos Sakellaropoulos comments on the reports of the then KYP, in an attempt to interpret the events that led to the loss of almost 37% of the island and to shed light on the proverbial negligence and willful blindness of the junta leadership in the face of the sweeping Turkish invasion. The publication also includes and comments on documents and classified signals that Lieutenant General (ret.) Georgios Tsoumis, a high-ranking member of the KYP echelon in Nicosia during those catastrophic days, kept in his personal archive.