"Ioannis Il. Alexakis"

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Ioannis Elias Alexakis (1938-14 December 2015) was an honorary lieutenant general of the Greek Army of Dry, with a leading role in the anti-dictatorical struggle. He was an associate of Alexander Panagoulis, while post-politically he was friendly with Andreas Papandreou and served twice as Director of Security of the then Central Intelligence Agency (CSP), from 1974 to 1976 and from 1981 to 1986.

Biography

He was born in 1938 in Heraklion, Crete, a descendant of an old, large and important military family from Potamos Lassithi, of which distinguished members were General Ioannis S. Alexakis, the first Greek officer to enter Thessaloniki in 1912, Nicholas Alexis, Alexios Alexis etc. He graduated from the Military Euclid School (CSE) in 1959 as lieutenant of the Infantry. He later completed his studies at various military schools domestic and foreign.

During the period of the colonels' junta, Alexakis had a substantial participation in the anti-dictatorical struggle and was an important partner of Alexander Panagoulis' team. In fact, his wife Nena, an employee in the administrative department of the Cyprus embassy in Athens, was the man who delivered weapons and explosives to the representatives of Panagoulis, who were hidden in the diplomatic bag coming from Cyprus. With these explosives Panagoulis made the assassination attempt of dictator George Papadopoulos.

In 1973 he took part and had an important role in the Navy movement, along with Spiros Moustacles, who was brutally tortured in EBA-ESA.

In July 1974, immediately after the restoration of democracy, Constantine Karamanlis appointed head of the Central Intelligence Agency (CYP) the loyalist general Constantine Fetsis. Fetsis immediately appointed the then Major Alexakis director of the Department of Security of the KYP, at the urging of General Peridis, with whom Alexakis co-existed in the resistance organization "Free Greeks", in which anti-racist officers from all political venues participated.

With a somewhat divisive interpretation of his official duties (the security of the CN), Alexakis assumed responsibility for the location of the far-right "drops" in the Armed Forces, and his department was awarded the credit for revealing and suppressing the pro-Honastic pyjamas coup in early 1975. He also took responsibility for handling the Archives of the ESA and collaborated effectively with Michael Zouvelos, commissioner (military prosecutor) at the Court of Justice of the torturers of EAT-ESA as well as with Giannis Degiannis at the trial of the archipelagos.

In this first term at the KΥP, Alexakis developed close relations with Andreas Papandreou and PASOK as well as with the newspaper News, in which since early 1976 secret NRA records were published, which caused the distress of right-wing Army officers. Finally, in April 1976 the Minister