The CIA Spy Who Left Fingerprints on Greek Elections and Cyprus Politics

The CIA Spy Who Left Fingerprints on Greek Elections and Cyprus Politics

CIA headquarters. Credit: Wikimedia Commons / Carol Highsmith / Public Domain Details about the CIA’s secret role in Greece’s 1956 national elections and its parallel activities in Cyprus, including the recruitment of an associate of Archbishop Makarios III, the first President of the Republic of Cyprus, appear in Harvard Magazine’s report “The Life of a Harvard Spy.” The article profiles Richard Skeffington Welch, a senior CIA officer assassina…