Cyprus hosted secret US helicopter base for four years, "no comment" says govt

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Paphos Life
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Cyprus hosted secret US helicopter base for four years, "no comment" says govt

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Cyprus said on Wednesday it had no comment on a US official report showing that the island secretly hosted a $70 million American helicopter base for four years that was quietly shut down in 2017.Government spokesman Prodromos Prodromou told the Cyprus News Agency: "The government of the Republic has no comment. Questions should be addressed to the US authorities."...

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Secret?
There was no secret about the mystery helicopter that was kept at a certain base when we lived on the outskirts of Limassol 😉
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The article indicates that the US copters were in the British base. Therefore it was Britain who hosted a secret US base, not the Republic of Cyprus.
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I would be surprised if any secret could be kept in Cyprus.
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