The Dictatorship of the Colonels in Greece, 1967-1974

The purpose of this article is to present the geostrategical stakes of the colonels' dictatorship in Greece, through the analysis of three French national daily newspaper: Le Monde, L'HumanitE and Le Figaro. It will show whether or not this regime, in the Mediterranean, during the cold war, represented an interest for the US. This article turns around three periods. The first, 1967, presents the regime's official standpoint: the establishment of the dictatorship because of the imminent communist threat. This part shows the divergence of the three newspapers analysis on this standpoint but also on the role of the US. The 2nd period concentrates on the years 1968 to 1973 and exposes the points of view that the American protected the regimeIf for the three newspapers, the US supported the regime for geostrategical reasons, on the other hand, for Le Monde and L'HumanitE, this protection goes far beyond this. Finally, the third part covers 1974, the failed coup d'etat in Cyprus, the fall of the dictatorship and there again the role or even the responsibility of the US. These divergence, convergence or the different French nuances always argued in the sources are today a basis of questioning and research.