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The National Intelligence Service is good for nothing and the police actually know the identity of the majority of local terrorists, but can do nothing due to lack of evidence for arrest and judicial proceedings. The former Minister of Citizens Protection Michalis Chrysohoidis made these confessions and conclusions during a 45-minute conversation with the then U.S. Ambassador to Athens Daniel Speckhard on January 22, 2010. The British Guardian published this shocking information, referring to Wikileaks files.  
 
According to Michalis Chrysohoidis, the National Intelligence Service was even dangerous to national security because of gaps in the system and its numerous shortcomings, and because of the strong trade union movement within the organization. Chrysohoidis said he was ready to raze the service to the ground and build it again to meet the international standards and increase its efficiency.
 
The then Minister of Citizens Protection known as the Minister of Economy and Regional Development today stated that he wanted to make a security system similar to that operating during the Olympic Games in Athens in 2004. However, the confession that the police knew the persons and the names of almost all members of the present anarchic and terrorist organizations in Greece and yet they were not able to indict them is more than confusing. An example was the attack on the Sigru Avenue. Security cameras had captured the faces of five participants but they were not arrested. Even more shocking are the findings that local terrorist organizations have a direct link with the Middle East and especially Iran.

Tthe two statesmen discussed the issue of trafficking and asylum in the conversation too. Illegal immigration, which affects both Turkey and Greece, facilitates Iraqi extremists transportation to the U.S. and countries. The Greek Ta Nea edition which also refers to Wikileaks reports that according to Daniel Stekhard lack of formal Muslim temples in Greece could make the illegally residing people from Islamic countries vulnerable and push them to Islamic fundamentalism.

The Ambassador said he had met the commander of the Hellenic Coast Guard and the Hellenic National Police. Athina984.gr post says that Stekhard had encouraged the reorganization of the internal forces and the closer cooperation of the Federal Bureau of Investigations (FBI) and the Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) with their Greek colleagues. The Ambassador informed Chrysohoidis that he had proposed the head of the National Police to make a joint working group to fight terrorism so that the United States government could strongly support the efforts of the Greek government in this area.

Chrysohoidis’ ambitious idea to make a new organization of not more than 100 people with main activity combating organized crime in and outside cyberspace is also mentioned in the file. The Ambassador, in turn, suggested to the U.S Minister to assist through exchange of experience and training of local staff by U.S. professionals. It is noted that the idea was accepted warmly.