ABSTRACT
This chapter explores military intelligence during the Great War and how it informs the fraught civil-military relations over security, and explains how the Cypriot middle classes were both loyal and disloyal: some worked for intelligence and others betrayed it. It argues that the military intelligence was right to worry about the loyalties of the Cypriots and others living on the island, contrary to the Cypriot authorities. Significant breaches occurred before Clauson almost aligned martial law in Cyprus with that of Egypt, as the intelligence authorities wanted. Mustapha Haji Izzet reported that the black caps resembled the fez worn in Cyprus, conceivably the Imperial German ‘tschako’ helmets such as the Ersatz-Helme issued in 1914. In Egypt, lists with the names of Greek nationals were prepared to intern or deport them and Greek nationals in Cyprus could be deported to Egypt for internment.
