Brendan O'Malley, Ian Craig

The Cyprus Conspiracy (eBook, ePUB)

America, Espionage and the Turkish Invasion

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

In 1974 the Greek colonels ousted the Greek-Cypriot leader of Cyprus, Archbishop Makarios, and Turkey retaliated by invading and seizing a third of the island. Cyprus remains split in two, like Berlin before the wall came down, bristling with troops and spying bases, and permanently policed by the United Nations. Henry Kissinger claimed he could do nothing to stop the coup because of the Watergate crisis, but this book presents evidence to support the view that it was no failure of American foreign policy, but the realization of a long-term plot. The authors describe the strategic reasons for Washington's need to divide the island. Their account encompasses an international cast of characters that includes Eden, Eisenhower, Nixon, Kissinger, Wilson, Callaghan, Grivas, and the leaders of the two halves of the divided island, Clerides and Denktas.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bloomsbury UK eBooks
• Seitenzahl: 288
• Erscheinungstermin: 25. Juni 2001
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780857730169
• Artikelnr.: 39142219

Autorenporträt

Brendan O'Malley is Foreign Editor of the Times Educational Supplement and Ian Craig is Political Editor of the Manchester Evening News.

Inhaltsangabe

Strategic prize
Britain's vital military base; the enemy within
the rise of the Enosis campaign; the secret alliance
Eden stokes Turkish violence; military crackdown
Harding gets tough; hamstrung at Suez
Grivas sabotages military preparations; Macmillan's pact
Eisenhower deal frees Makarios; sounding the retreat
NATO allowed to mediate; North Atlantic agenda
Eisenhower rejects the Macmillan plan; pax americana
the settlement secures NATO ties; a sham independence
the unsinkable aircraft
carrier; constitutional collapse
the bloodbath begins; America's secret option
a limited invasion; a crude partition
the British defend Turkish enclaves; the NATO plot
plans to split Cyprus; fallen allies
Grivas risks war; the "red priest"
assassination target; crisis of trust
spying bases at risk; the invisible hand
the Greek colonels oust Makarios; searching questions
Kissinger and Callaghan are cross
examined; warnings of a coup
the CIA knew in advance; Washington stalls
Britain sends a task force; America's veto
Kissinger blocks military deterrent; the Turkish landing
Britain on the brink of war; a creeping invasion
talks at Geneva; the road to war
Kissinger over
rules Callaghan; to the Attila Line
US pressure contains the advances; sabotaged by Congress
the bitter legacy lives on; appendix
interview with Henry Kissinger.