Intense American interest for developments in Thrace

October 21, 2011

A secret document (No. 1044 / 12 September 2008) of the National Intelligence Service (EYP), revealed by the magazine “Epikaira”, reports the intense involvement in Thrace of the U.S. Consulate in Thessaloniki. According to the document the ultimate goal was the manipulation of the Greek Muslim minority and its subsequent exploitation to serve American interests in the region.

The Greek secret services highlighted the very strong interest shown by U.S. officials on issues related to minority education, going so far as to exert pressure even on a specific teacher working in a minority elementary school in the village Megalos Dereios in Evros. The teacher was the well-known Chara Nikopoulou, who, after having provoked the wrath of the Turkish consulate in Komotini, because she strongly argued that her students being Pomaks are not Turks, she was subsequently targeted by the Greek Ministry of Education, which swiftly transferred her, criticizing her for exercising foreign policy inside the school.

A classified document of the Southeast Europe Directorate of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs dated 19 May 2008, which describes the actions of the U.S. Consulate in Thessaloniki in the area as “highly suspicious and beyond any authority “ (Greek daily “Proto Thema”, 06/15/2008).

Source: strategyreports