Overview
- Summary
- After being transformed into a skilled "spy", the author was sent back to Greece undercover. Along with a Greek naval intelligence officer, he set up a communications cell in Salonica whereby daily coded messages to OSS (Office of Strategic Services) Headquarters in Cairo were sent. The author recounts his personal experiences with the Cretan Resistance, his escape from Crete through the mountains, the evacuation by an English torpedo boat, his OSS training, the return mission to Greece, as well as recalling the near-capture encounters with the Gestapo and Greek police, and his final return to the United States.
- Other Title
- Trained to be an OSS spy.
- Format
- Book
- Published
- [United States?] : Xlibris, 2014
- Locale
- Greece
Thessalonikē
United States
Egypt
Cairo - Edition
- Rev. ed
- Notes
-
"Updated version"--Cover.
"Book II."
Original edition published in 2012.
Includes index.
Physical Details
- Language
- English
- ISBN
- 9781479716494
1479716499
9781479716487
1479716480 - Physical Description
- xxiv, 247 pages : illustrations, maps ; 23 cm
Keywords & Subjects
- Subjects
- World War (1939-1945) World War, 1939-1945--Underground movements--Greece--Thessalonikē. Spies--Training of--United States. Spies--Greece--Biography. Spies--United States--Biography. Radio operators--United States--Biography. World War, 1939-1945--Secret service--Egypt--Cairo. World War, 1939-1945--Participation, Greek American. World War, 1939-1945--Personal narratives. Greek Americans--Biography. Greek Americans. Radio operators. Secret service. Spies. Underground movements, War. Egypt--Cairo. Greece. Greece--Thessalonikē United States. Biography. Personal narratives. Doundoulakis, Helias. United States.--Office of Strategic Services--Biography. United States.--Office of Strategic Services.
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