Kissinger & Cyprus: A Study in Lawlessness by Gene Rossides
by Gene Rossides
Foreword by Professor Louis Galambos, Johns Hopkins University, and Editor of The Papers of Dwight David Eisenhower.
Hard cover, 250 pages including a map of Cyprus, an eight-page photo insert and a seven-page insert of Pat Oliphant cartoons.
2014 | ISBN: 978-1-889247-08-3.
This book explores four themes. The first is Kissinger’s illegal actions and responsibility for the Cyprus tragedy of 1974 and its aftermath. The second is Cyprus’s importance as a strategic, economic, and political asset to Europe and the United States. The third theme is Turkey’s actions as a rogue state, its violations of United States and international laws, its history of unreliability as an ally and its moves towards Islamic fundamentalism. The fourth theme is the vital importance to the United States of absolute allegiance to the rule of law. The concluding chapter discusses the need for the United States to redress the situation in Cyprus by pressuring Turkey to withdraw its troops and settlers from Cyprus.
Gene Rossides served as Assistant Secretary of the U.S. Treasury from 1969 to 1973, during the first term of the Nixon Administration. Henry Kissinger was National Security Adviser during this time. Rossides supervised the U.S. Customs Service, Secret Service, Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco & Firearms, and the Federal Law Enforcement Training Center. He served as the U.S. representative to INTERPOL. From 1958 to 1961, he served in the Eisenhower Administration and is a founding director of the Eisenhower Institute. He graduated from Columbia College and Columbia Law School.
Book Reviews:
“Henry Kissinger can run, but he can’t hide--at least from Gene Rossides. The indefatigable Rossides is determined to hold the former secretary of state responsible for supporting Turkey in its invasion of Cyprus, and the consequences which live on four decades later.” Doug Bandow, Senior Fellow, Cato Institute, Washington, D.C.
“Kissinger & Cyprus: A Study in Lawlessness is a disturbing indictment of the gap that sometimes exists between Washington’s professed commitment to international law and the actual behavior of U.S. officials. In the aftermath of Turkey’s invasion and conquest of Northern Cyprus in 1974, not only did the U.S. government fail to punish the rogue behavior of its NATO ally, U.S. policy makers served as enablers for that act of aggression. Four decades later, the division of Cyprus remains an ongoing tragedy. Gene Rossides presents a compelling indictment of an especially shameful episode in America’s foreign policy.” Ted Galen Carpenter, Senior Fellow in Defense and Foreign Policy Studies, Cato Institute, Washington, D.C.
“Gene Rossides shows that his decades of research, and his magisterial and highly readable legal case, have not been wasted. His study highlights how, with Kissinger’s actions, policies of expedience and secretiveness at the expense of allies do not make for good long-term strategies for the United States. Rossides’ exposure of Kissinger shows the problem of policymaking done without the benefit of debate. What we need now are more people with the rigor and passion of Gene Rossides to highlight the similarly destructive outcome of today’s distorted and secretive policymaking toward the Eastern Mediterranean and Asia-Minor.” Gregory R. Copley, President of the International Strategic Studies Association, Washington, D.C.
From the Foreword:
“The author does not do an academic fairy dance around the legal and moral dilemmas created when the United States condoned Turkey’s brutal exercise of power in Cyprus. Rossides leaves no doubt in the reader’s mind that Kissinger’s policies traded America’s legal and moral position for a short-term political gain. Even the gain, he notes, was questionable. Meanwhile, the policies violated American law and flaunted international law. The destruction of property was significant. Forced ethnic removal took place with America’s tacit approval, as did the introduction of a foreign population to the island. American arms were involved in the entire process in a specific violation of American law.” Professor Louis Galambos, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD.
THE FIRST VICTORY: Greece in the Second World War
By George C. Blytas hard cover, 600 pages with 24 maps and 43 pictures.
ISBN 978-1-932455-19-9
Published jointly by AHIF and Cosmos Publishing
THE FIRST VICTORY: Greece in the Second World War by George C. Blytas provides a sweeping account of the role Greece played during the Second World War. Greece’s seven-month resistance between 1940 and 1941 against the invading armies of Italy and Germany established the first Allied victory and became an inspiration to freedom-loving countries everywhere. Using intricately detailed descriptions and maps, Blytas recounts the events that preceded the Second World War and unfolds the diplomatic and military developments that cemented Greece’s role in securing the first victory.
Blood and Tears
Greece 1940-1949—A Story of War and Love
George Papavizas
Hardcover, 335 pages plus a 16-page photo insert. 2002
Blood and Tears: Greece 1940-1949, by George C. Papavizas, is a powerful autobiography set in the turbulent decade of 1940s Greece. Through the eyes of the author, then an impressionable and intelligent young man who came of age in a time of world war, foreign occupation, resistance, and civil war, we witness the tragedy and trauma suffered by an entire nation.
While uniquely personal, this is also the story of the thousands of young Greek men and women cast unwillingly into the ambivalences and horrors of World War II and Greece’s civil war. Against a rigorously researched backdrop of the key historical events, we see youthful idealism being forcibly reconciled to the realities of hunger, brutality, dissension and death. With a keen eye for detail, Papavizas reflects on the mundane as well as the profound while chronicling the decade during which Greece patriotically fended off foreign invasion, survived years of harsh occupation, then tragically succumbed to the blandishments of utopians.
The author’s descriptions are vivid and convincing. John O. Iatrides, Professor of International Politics at Southern Connecticut State University and Executive Director of the Modern Greek Studies Association, says: “I know of no other publication in English which captures so well the human drama of Greece during the terrible decade of the 1940s.”
The Greek American Operational Groups [DVD]
Short documentary written by: James L. Marketos
The U.S.’s first experiment with clandestine commando warfare took place in World War II. Under a secret OSS plan, small groups of specially trained U.S. Army infantrymen of various ethnic backgrounds were infiltrated into occupied Europe to assist local partisan groups in resisting the Nazis. Among these secret “Operational Groups”—the OGs—were Greek Americans, whose mission was to make the German withdrawal from Greece in 1944 as costly as possible. They succeeded far beyond expectations, but the records of their secret service were sealed for forty years, and their story is largely unknown. This short video brings their bravery to light.
A Tribute to the Greek
Women Immigrant Pioneers
(video)
Videocassette, American Hellenic Institute Foundation, 1999.
A Tribute to the Greek Women Immigrant Pioneers is a 1999 videocassette documentary produced by the American Hellenic Institute Foundation. It explores the history, bravery, and early experiences of female Greek immigrants who traveled to unfamiliar lands and helped build early Greek-American communities.