When SERGEI BOKHAN, a Soviet diplomat serving in Athens, who secured asylum in the US on 25 May 1985, made grossly interesting revelations about the role of Greece in international terrorism. The Soviet diplomat explained how Greece served as bridge of international terrorism and arms smuggling between Europe and the Middle East, by giving important information. Bokhan, inter alias, explicated that the confidential information had been passed on to Moscow (by Greece) and that informed of Athens treachery, the NATO's headquarters in Brussels had refrained from giving "strictly confidential" documents to the Greeks. The Russian agent also revealed the names of the Greek cabinet ministers who had given him information during his 3-year service in Athens. On 26 June 1985, the US envoy in Athens Mr. Sterns paid a visit to Prime Minister Papandreou giving him a list of 10 Greeks.

The list contained the names of the Ministers and high-level officials from the PASOK party. Among the names on the list were: the Undersecretary of the Foreign Ministry Iannis Kapsis; Chairman of the Mediterranean Research Center Michailis Charalambides who establishes the connection between PKK and the Greek Intelligence Organization, Press Undersecretary Dimitris Marudas, Chairman of the Bureau for the International Relations of the Prime Ministry Vassilis Konstandineas; and Sifis Valirakis who is allegedly among the founders of "17 November" terrorist organization in Greece and two-term Minister of Public Order. All the names mentioned in the ten-name list of the US were very loyal persons to Prime Minister Andreas Papandreou. Even all of them were the founding members of the PAK terrorist organization established between 1967-74, the era of the Greek military junta.

Papandreou's establishing friendships in 1976 with those countries regarded as dangerous for the Western alliance was striking. All sorts of support extended to him by Syria, Iran and Libya played a very important role in his rising to power in the period of 1981-1989.