Alexandros Hatzipetros Explained

Alexandros Hatzipetros
Office:Deputy Minister for Foreign Affairs
Term Start:31 July 1972
Term End:8 October 1973
Office2:Chief of the Central Intelligence Service
Term Start2:24 April 1967
Term End2:3 June 1972
Predecessor2:Kyriakos Papageorgopoulos
Successor2:Michael Roufogalis
Birth Date:1907
Birth Place:Corinth, Greece
Death Date:2006
Death Place:Greece
Nationality:Greek
Allegiance: Greece
Branch:Hellenic Army
Rank: Colonel

Alexandros Hatzipetros (Greek, Modern (1453-);: Αλέξανδρος Χατζηπέτρος, 1907 - 2006) was a Greek military officer who served as Chief of the Central Intelligence Service and Deputy Minister for Foreign Affairs during the Regime of the Colonels.

Hatzipetros, a career soldier, was a descendant of freedom-fighter Christodoulos Hatzipetros. He was a Colonel in the Artillery when the coup d'état of 1967 which installed the Junta took place. In the wake of the coup, Hatzipetros was appointed Chief of the Central Intelligence Service, a post he held until June 1972. The following month, he assumed the position of Deputy Foreign Minister and remained in that position until the fall of the Junta in late 1973. He was tried and acquitted in the Greek Junta Trials.[1] [2] Hatzipetros died in 2006.

Notes and References

  1. Book: Translations on Near East and North Africa. 1972. Joint Publications Research Service.
  2. Book: Fotini Bellou. Theodore A. Couloumbis. Theodore C. Kariotis. Greece in the Twentieth Century. 11 January 2013. Routledge. 978-1-136-34659-0. 132–.