ABSTRACT
Following the collapse of the Balkan pacts in mid-1955, Greece’s security problem was radically transformed. It is possible to distinguish two different sub-periods. The years 1955-59 were a time of uncertainty, both regionally as well as internally. Then, the Cyprus settlement removed the major source of strain from Greece’s relationship with NATO, but this led to an intensification of pressures from the Soviet Bloc; in 1959-63, Greece was afraid that it could become the victim of localized Soviet-Bloc aggression.
