Popular Revolutionary Resistance Group (LEA) was a Greek group which aimed to overthrow the Greek junta in power and replace it with a new, more democratic regime.  The group claimed that as long as the people of Greece failed to mobilize, Greece would always be subservient to foreign governments.  Thus, LEA demanded that all the monopolies in Greece be nationalized, that all existing government institutions be abolished and replaced, that the military and police be disbanded, that emigration be banned, and that Greece withdraw from NATO and all other "imperialistic international organizations."  Once these demands are met, the LEA argued, Greece could finally be ruled by a democracy of the working-class.<br /><p><br />LEA's tactics consisted of deliberately small attacks accompanied by propaganda and press releases.  Its predecessor, the Makriyannis Fighting Group, was responsible for three bombing incidents.  Makriyannis Fighting Group was also responsible for a failed attempt to detonate a bomb in the American Embassy in Athens on September 2, 1970.  The two people performing the mission, a Greek man named Tsikouris and an Italian woman named Angeloni, were killed by their own bomb.  Makriyannis Fighting Group consequently merged with the LEA on May 18, 1971.<br /><p><br />On August 29, 1972 the LEA claimed responsibility for a bomb that successfully detonated in the American Embassy.  The attacks were said to be in memory of Tsikouris and Angeloni.  The group also blew up two American military vehicles in Ghlidafa in protest of Spiro Agnew's visit to Greece in October 1971.  LEA also carried out numerous small symbolic bombings such as that of the statue of Metaxas, a Greek fascist general, on the five-year anniversary of the establishment of military rule in Greece.  LEA specifically targeted American interests in order to show that foreign powers could be attacked.  It admitted that its attacks accomplished relatively little but was hoping that such attacks, combined with a second wave of propaganda, would encourage Greeks to reconsider the political climate and start up the revolution that would make Greece an independent, democratic country.<br />