Leslie Absher
Greek News
A Trip Back to Bouboulinas Street, the Torture Prison During the Greek Junta
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For seven years between 1967 and 1974 the Greek military junta used a building at Bouboulinas Street, Athens as a prison where thousands were tortured. Among them a Belgian national named Roland Baumann who recently returned to the infamous...
Greek News
A CIA Officer’s Daughter Remembers the 1967 Greek Coup
Just prior to the 1967 Greek coup, fifty-five years ago, I arrived in Athens with my mother and CIA father. He was a young officer and Greece was his first field assignment. I was a toddler when we moved...
Greece
My Dad Was a CIA Spy in Greece — But Not a Thug
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by Leslie Absher
When I was just a baby, my father was sent to Greece for his first field assignment with the CIA. It was the summer of 1966 when we arrived, nine months before the military coup led...
Greece
Never Forget Bouboulinas Street
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By Leslie Absher
I spent the first years of my childhood living in Athens during the junta, brought to Greece by my CIA dad for his first field assignment.
I knew nothing about the dictatorship then; I was a child playing...
Greece
CIA Daughter On the Anniversary of the Coup Her Dad Helped
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By Leslie Absher
A baby before the coup, brought there by her father, a young spy on his first mission. “There is much I’ll never know about his work in Greece but my love for him and Greece calls me...