Blum Interview: The Bloody Road To Empire
'DR: Let?s talk about your chapter on ?Greece 1947 to early 1950?s: From Cradle of Democracy to Client State.? Now, a lot of people don?t know that the U.S. Government intervened in Greece.

'Blum: Well, the average American is unaware of the great bulk of the case studies in my book. Which is why I wrote it?I felt there was a big gap to be filled. Greece was one example of about half a dozen after the Second World War where the U.S. took the side of its supposed former enemies, aiding people who had been Nazis or had served the Nazis, or the Japanese. There are at least half a dozen of these countries. And in the case of Greece, there was a civil war going on. On one side you had the Greek right wing, which had actively corroborated with the Nazis who had occupied Greece during the war. On the other side you had the left, which had fought against the Nazis and had successfully forced them to leave the country. Now, which of those two sides do you think the U.S. government took? Of course the side which had been pro-Nazi. What the U.S. government feared most was a left wing, socialist, or communist government anywhere in the world?including Europe, of course?and they had to suppress that in its infancy.'

Blum Interview: The Bloody Road To Empire
'DR: Let?s talk about your chapter on ?Greece 1947 to early 1950?s: From Cradle of Democracy to Client State.? Now, a lot of people don?t know that the U.S. Government intervened in Greece.

'Blum: Well, the average American is unaware of the great bulk of the case studies in my book. Which is why I wrote it?I felt there was a big gap to be filled. Greece was one example of about half a dozen after the Second World War where the U.S. took the side of its supposed former enemies, aiding people who had been Nazis or had served the Nazis, or the Japanese. There are at least half a dozen of these countries. And in the case of Greece, there was a civil war going on. On one side you had the Greek right wing, which had actively corroborated with the Nazis who had occupied Greece during the war. On the other side you had the left, which had fought against the Nazis and had successfully forced them to leave the country. Now, which of those two sides do you think the U.S. government took? Of course the side which had been pro-Nazi. What the U.S. government feared most was a left wing, socialist, or communist government anywhere in the world?including Europe, of course?and they had to suppress that in its infancy.'