Our Man in Athens

PanagiotisDimitrakis holds a doctorate from the Department of War Studies, King’s CollegeLondon. He has written extensively on intelligence, diplomacy and the historyof espionage in the 20th century. He is the author of The Hidden War inArgentina: British and American Espionage in World War II, The Secret War forChina: Espionage, Revolution and the Rise of Mao and Secrets and Lies inVietnam: Spies, Intelligence and Covert Operations in the Vietnam Wars. Hisresearch articles have been published in the International Journal ofIntelligence and Counterintelligence, Journal of Intelligence History,Comparative Strategy and Middle Eastern Studies.

• TheProtagonists                                                                         6Introduction                                                                                81.             The Queen                                                        172.             Our Man in Athens                                           283.             The Secret Alliance                                          474.             The Arms Dealer                                              605.             Spies and Rumours                                           846.             False Intelligence                                           1047.             Our Man in Salonica                                      1258.             Spymasters in Crisis                                       1419.             The King’s Communications                         15910.          War Cabinet, London                                     176Epilogue:A New Spymaster                                                  186Bibliography                                                                           196Index                                                                                       202About the Author                                                                    205

'In this intriguing book, Dimitrakis takes us on a guided tour of a world inhabited by noble patriots,  ambitious bureaucrats, duplicitous schemers, petty informers, underworld rascals,  swindlers, and ruffians who played the great game of espionage in Greece during the First World War. Though deeply grounded in the archival sources, he brings to life the people who were James Bond before James Bond.  This is a fascinating tale, and Dimitrakis tells it well.  I recommend this book to anyone interested in the murky world of intrigue and espionage.'      Thomas W. Gallant Senior Research Scholar, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens& Emeritus Distinguished Professor, University of California, San Diego Author of  Modern Greece: From the War of Independence to the Present‘This book explores the world of espionage in Greece during the First World War.  It is a story of misery and betrayal.  The deep divide between King Constantine and Venizelos created political stalemate that made Athens a magnet for a cast of unsavoury characters.  They contributed more to the history of intrigue than to the outcome of the war, or to the war after the Great War, which Greece lost catastrophically.’-Jay Winter, Charles J. Stille Professor of History Emeritus, Yale University Author of Remembering War:The Great War between history and memory in the Twentieth Century co-producer, co-writer, and chief historian for the PBS/BBC series ‘The Great War and the Shaping of the 20th Century’