"Organisation X"

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The X Organization, also referred to as Group X, was a pro-royal anti-communist organization that acted in Greece and Cyprus in the 1940s.

It was founded during the Occupation in 1942 in Athens as a group of officers who split from the organization "Unknown Division". It had military structure and was under the leadership of Cypriot lieutenant colonel, George Griva, whose home in Thessius was its seat. The members of the organization were known as "Hites". Despite her rhetoric and some negligible resistanceless actions, she aimed at developing not resistance, but anti-communist action in the first place. Joining royalist networks, since autumn 1943 "X" was involved in conflict with the forces of EAM/ELAS in Athens, resulting in its osmosis with the dosiological repressive mechanism with the tolerance of German occupation authorities. During the liberation the organization was combined with the influx of donors, joined the government "National Army of Athens" and undertook the transfer of British arms to anti-emamist organizations. Upon the start of December, he accepted the attack of ELAS on Thessium, from where he was unhooked after an operation of British tanks.

After the Varkiza agreement "X" led the paracratic White Terrorism against communists and anti-monarchists in the province and Athens, until the government dissolved it after international pressure in early 1946. He was then transformed into a political party, which participated in the 1946 and 1950 elections, without electing any MP, while in 1954 he joined the People's Party. At the end of 1946 he began acting in Cyprus, cooperating with the British forces. The activity of the organization and its Cypriot annex ceased in 1950.

In 1950 "X" was recognized by the post-postimal state as a resistance organization. In collective consciousness it was identified with anti-communism, anti-Parliamentaryism, and pro-monarchism. In modern times it is mentioned by its ideological descendants for its anti-communist action, who deny its contacts with occupation forces.

Establishment and structure

Prior to the "X" was the organization "Unknown Division X", also called "Organization of 2nd Division", which was established in May or June 1941 in Athens by Major General George Lavda, commander of the 2nd Division during the Greek-Italian War of 1940-1941, and Basil Brahnos, led by Colonels Constantine Papakonstantinou, Themistocles Ketsea, Agisilaos Siniori and Lieutenant Colonel George Griva, who was tasked with joining new members. The planning of the organization to maintain a waiting attitude and form after liberation, as well as the rumor about the silky past and its tipping attitude of officials caused the hostility of the Allies and the exiled Greek government. Grivas came into confrontation with Lavda and left in July 1942, followed by