That's what I remember (somewhat fuzzily) about Greece!
As much as we beat ourselves up for not knowing about other countries, it is phenomenal the extent to which goofy conspiracy theories & misperceptions exist in the rest of the world about America. Europeans that cannot tell you about the Marshall Plan will cite mythical chapter and verse about war for oil in Iraq, contracts for natural gas pipelines in Afghanistan, CIA hits to put Pinochet in power, and why we should FREE MUMIA! Often what they are against is a caricature of America. Not sure how to solve this problem, but when Jerry Springer, Hollywood, Noam Chomsky, CNN International, the International Herald Tribune, and Michael Moore are the main sources of information about the USA then we start out behind the 8 ball.