Greek Archbishop to proto-CIA: “Your directions will be executed faithfully.”

Source: Orthodox History

December 5, 2019

President Truman and Archbishop Athenagoras, 1947 President Truman and Archbishop Athenagoras, 1947 It’s long been an open secret that Patriarch Athenagoras’ election as Ecumenical Patriarch was arranged, or at least facilitated, by the United States government. It’s difficult to write about this as an historian, though, because smoking guns for that kind of thing tend to be kept under wraps. Occasionally, though, something slips out. I was recently paging through old documents on the CIA database that were released under the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA). One file contains a big batch of papers from CIA’s predecessor agency, the OSS, all focused on Greece during World War II. Buried in the nearly 300 pages of that PDF are several items pertaining to Athenagoras, who at the time was Archbishop of the Greek Archdiocese of North and South America.

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Matthew Namee

12/5/2019

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