ABOUT
A leader of the 1967 Greek military coup d'etat, he joined Dimitrios Ioannidis as a dictator in the "Regime of the Colonels" Junta that governed Greece during the late 1960s and early 1970s.He was the object of a 1968 assassination attempt by Greek author and Centre Union Party politician Alexandros Panagoulis.He and fellow politician and military leader Abdel Fattah El-sisi (of Egypt) were both involved, in their respective countries, in military coup d'etats.
BEFORE FAMEIn the late 1940s, he trained as a United States Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) agent.
PERSONAL LIFEHis first marriage, to Niki Vasileiadi, produced two children. With his second wife, Despina Gaspari, he had a third child.
FUN FACTSGeorgios Papadopoulos were born on Monday, birthstone is Emerald, the seaon was Spring in the Chinese year of Goat, it is 116 days until Georgios Papadopoulos next birthday.