Panagiotis Anagnostopoulos (general)
Panagiotis "Takis" Anagnostopoulos () was a Lieutenant General of the Greek Army and close friend and associate of Prime Ministers Georgios Papandreou and Andreas Papandreou. In 1965, he was a central figure in the so-called ASPIDA affair. Life He was born in Kalavryta in 1914, and grew up in Patras. He graduated from the Hellenic Military Academy as a Second Lieutenant of Artillery and fought in the Greco-Italian War, in the Middle East and in the Greek Civil War on the side of the Greek government against the communists. In November 1963, when Georgios Papandreou became Prime Minister, Anagnostopoulos, then a Colonel, was appointed Chief of the Espionage Branch of the Central Intelligence Service (KYP), a post he held until May 1965, when he became overall Chief of KYP. However, two months later, in July 1965, the Iouliana brought down the government, and he was also one of the officers accused of being implicated in the so-called ASPIDA affair. In the ASPIDA trial, that concl ...
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