Tension builds up between the two Cypriot communities in the summer of 1971, and incidents become more numerous.

Sometime in the late summer or early fall, Grivas (who had attacked Makarios as a traitor in an Athens newspaper) returns secretly to the island and begins to rebuild his guerrilla organization, which becomes known as the National Organization of Cypriot Fighters (Ethniki Organosis Kyprion Agoniston B — EOKA B).

Three new newspapers advocating enosis are also established at the same time.

All of these activities are funded by the military junta that controls Greece.

The junta probably would have agreed to some form of partition similar to the Acheson Plan to settle the Cyprus question, but at this time the overthrow of Makarios is the primary objective, and the junta backs Grivas toward that end.

From hiding, Grivas directs terrorist attacks and propaganda assaults that shake the Makarios government, but the president remains a powerful, popular leader.