#2392 - John Kiriakou
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So you
were saying you put replaced Mike Baker?
Yeah. Mike's a great guy. He was a good officer. He was he doesn't really talk about his work a lot. Maybe it's because a lot of years have passed, but he was the real deal. I replaced him in Athens, and he had done a lot of preliminary legwork in Athens. Athens was a tough place. At the time, the American government spent more money on security in Athens than they spent anywhere else in the world, including Beirut.
Why?
There it was a combination of two things. There were two indigenous Greek groups that were exceedingly dangerous. One was called revolutionary organization seventeen November. They had killed the CIA station chief, two US defense attaches, just bad guys all around. The other was called Popular Revolutionary Struggle. And then on top of that, you had Abu Nidal, the Libyans, the PFLP, the PFLP GC, the DFLP, everybody was there because there was this informal agreement between the Greek government of Andreas Papandreou at the time and these terrorist groups that if you don't kill Greeks, we'll le
Oh, boy.
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