Were the Beatles used as propaganda by Greece’s military rulers?

 

 "The trip to Greece had been organised by the late Alexis Mardas, an electronics genius affectionately named Magic Alex, who had invented a light-box that stimulated Lennon’s LSD trips and was one of the Beatles’ first Apple company employees. Mardas, who would fall out spectacularly with the band, was the son of an airforce officer with close links to the colonels. “It appears likely that official tourism representatives and Alexis Mardas were involved,” Knott writes."

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