Having served a 15 month stint as a liason to the Greek Air Force, At Araxos Air Base in the western Peloponnesian in 1988-89, I am surprised that the two Greek officers were allowed access to any information that could damage NATO security. My entire tour of duty in
Greece, while ostensibly in support of a NATO weapons detachment and the Greek Air Force was actually for the purpose of ensuring all classified assets at the site were destroyed (blown up) rather than allow the Greeks access to them, in the event that they tried to force the issue.
The betrayal of NATO by the two officers shouldn't come as any surprise.
Having said that, there were some fine officers and enlisted men in the Greek Air Force, but allegiance in Greece is divided strictly along political lines, with the members of the conservative party, PASOK being loyal to NATO and friendly to the U.S. and the members of the socialist and communist parties being as anti NATO as anyone in the former Warsaw Pact, even though they were supposedly NATO troops. |
