In 2001, former agents of the Eastern German secret police, the Stasi, claimed to Greek investigative reporters that during the Cold War, they had orchestrated an operation of evidence falsification,[REF][REF] to present Karamanlis as having planned a coup and thus damage his reputation in an apparent disinformation propaganda campaign [REF].
The operation allegedly centered on a falsified conversation between Karamanlis and Strauss, a Bavarian officer of the King.