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The coup was ordered by Dimitrios Ioannidis, the shadow leader of the Greek junta, and Greek officers led the Cypriot National Guard to capture the [[Presidential Palace, Nicosia|Presidential Palace]] in Nicosia.<ref name=hoff>{{cite book |author= Hoffmeister, Frank |title= Legal aspects of the Cyprus problem: Annan Plan and EU accession |publisher= EMartinus Nijhoff Publishers|year= 2006 |url= https://books.google.com/books?id=LZXbg3ZwvGoC | pages = 34–5 |isbn= 978-90-04-15223-6}}</ref> The building was almost entirely burned down.<ref>{{cite web|title=Presidential Palace|url=http://www.presidency.gov.cy/presidency/presidency.nsf/prc29_en/prc29_en|publisher=Presidency of the Republic of Cyprus|access-date=15 April 2015|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150425035507/http://www.presidency.gov.cy/presidency/presidency.nsf/prc29_en/prc29_en|archive-date=2015-04-25|url-status=dead}}</ref> Makarios narrowly escaped death in the attack. He fled the presidential palace from its back door and went to [[Paphos]], where the British managed to retrieve him in the afternoon of 16 July and flew him from [[Akrotiri and Dhekelia|Akrotiri]] to [[Malta]] in a [[Royal Air Force]] transport plane, and from there to London the next morning.<ref name="TIME"/><ref>{{cite book|last1=Constandinos|first1=Andreas|title=America, Britain and the Cyprus Crisis of 1974: Calculated Conspiracy Or Foreign Policy Failure?|date=2009|publisher=AuthorHouse|isbn=9781467887076|page=206|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=JOHYjyShuGIC&q=makarios+whirlwind&pg=PA206|access-date=5 March 2015}}</ref><ref name=Mallinson>{{cite book | last = Mallinson | first = William | title = Cyprus: A Modern History | publisher = I. B. Tauris | date = June 30, 2005 | url = https://books.google.com/books?id=HEjkuhF2GsMC&pg=PA80 | isbn = 978-1-85043-580-8| page = 80 }}</ref> On 19 July, he attended a [[United Nations Security Council]] meeting in New York and gave a speech, in which he stated that Cyprus had been invaded by Greece.<ref>[http://daccess-ods.un.org/access.nsf/Get?Open&DS=S/PV.1780(OR)&Lang=S UN] The Official Record of United Nations Security Council 1780th Meeting (19.07.1974)</ref>