In November 2024, on the occasion of the 50th anniversary of the Cyprus tragedy, the National Intelligence Service (EYP) released 58 intelligence bulletins that were compiled in July and August 1974 by the staff of the then Central Intelligence Service (KYP). 

This is the first time that the administration of the Greek secret services has declassified archival material, making it available to historical research and to any interested citizen.

The intelligence bulletins document the coup against the President of the Republic of Cyprus, Archbishop Makarios, organized by the "shadow" dictator Dimitrios Ioannidis and his conspiratorial group, the civil war that broke out among Greek Cypriots as a result of the coup, the feverish military preparations on the part of Turkey, and the two phases of Operation "Attila".

In the first part of this volume, historian Tasos Sakellaropoulos comments on the reports of the then KYP, in an attempt to interpret the events that led to the loss of nearly 37% of the island and to shed light on the proverbial sluggishness and willful blindness of the junta leadership in the face of the sweeping Turkish invasion. 

The edition also includes and comments on documents and classified signals kept in the personal archive of Lieutenant General (ret.) Georgios Tsoumis, a senior officer of the KYP branch in Nicosia during those catastrophic days.