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Date(s)
- 1943 Apr (Creation)
Level of description
Item
Extent
49 items
Scope and content
Correspondence between Middle East Command and British Military Mission to Greece, including updates on Operation HARLING (British Military Mission to Greece); negotiations on and amendments to 'National Bands Agreement' between Greek partisans (andartes) and Middle East Command; updates on political situation in Greece; advice from Brig Edmund Charles Wolf Myers that Greek King George II should not be returned to Greece without a plebiscite; communications on need to co-operate with EAM (National Liberation Front), on Col Stefanos Sarafis, ELAS (National People's Liberation Army) leader freed without trial and on a declaration by Gen Napoleon Zervas, EDES (Greek Democratic National League) leader, denying planning post-war dictatorship; report on German attack on Greek partisans (andartes) in Olympus, 22 Apr 1943, and instructions to carry out Operation WASHING (destruction of Asopos Viaduct). 49 items.