Classical Spies by Susan Heuck Allen

Author:Susan Heuck Allen [Allen, Susan Heuck]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: History, 9780472117697, (¯`'•.¸//(*_*)\\¸.•'´¯)
ISBN: 9780472035397
Publisher: University of Michigan Press
Published: 2011-10-05T00:00:00+00:00

Fig. 21. “From Galaxidi to Athens,” Pericles mission. (Photo by Costas Cou-

varas. Copyright held by Department of Special Collections and University

Archives, The Library, California State University, Sacramento.)

monitored the Athens-Salonika transportation corridor. Others, like Helot,

he needed to rebrief and dispatch to the Peloponnese, and the northern

missions, Phalanx, Gasoline, and Floka, were still covering the German

withdrawal. Young also coordinated the postliberation networks, such as

Elephant which headed north to join EDES’s headquarters at Yannina after

Zervas liberated Corfu on October 13. Costas Couvaras of the Labor Desk’s

Pericles mission was moving to Athens to cover political developments with

EAM.

From Cairo, MacVeagh tried to turn Roosevelt’s attention to Balkan is-

sues. He wrote that Yugoslavia and Greece might be “small potatoes” in the

typical American view of foreign affairs, however, he stressed the future importance of the region, that the Department of State classi‹ed with Africa

and the Near East rather than Europe. He focused on the need for a new ap-

proach in light of the failing British empire. “The future maintenance of the Empire depends on how far England consents to frame her foreign policy in

agreement with Washington, and how far we in our turn realize that where

that Empire, so important in our own security, is most immediately men-

Liberation and the “Dance of the Seven Veils” • 225

aced.” Viz à viz “British fumbling in the Balkans,” MacVeagh quoted an OSS

SI report declaring that compromise with EAM was the most one could

hope for. “British political maneuvering has failed. . . . England has lost

ground and will not be able to regain it in the future.”30

Young cabled military, economic, and political intelligence to Cairo. He

told how retreating Germans had blown up the Shell oil re‹nery at Eleusis

and prepared the royal palace at Tatoi for demolition, then left the outskirts of Athens on the ‹fteenth, burning, pillaging, and killing as they made their way north. In their wake, the Greeks began to clear away land mines. That

day, Young cabled Cairo that the main British force had landed at Phaleron,

followed by a smaller one that escorted Papandreou’s provisional Greek

government to Athens. They entered the city on the seventeenth, accompa-

nied by General Scobie, Reginald Leeper, Noel Rees (who had joined Sco-

bie’s staff), and Major Dudley Bennett, his successor at MI-6 Izmir.31 That

day, the Greek ›ag ›ew again over the Acropolis. Afterward, the British

headed for the Grande Bretagne, where MI-6 had set up their headquarters,

roped off the area, and allotted space for over 500 agents who would de-

scend on Athens within two weeks.32

While the Greek government marched into Athens, Calvo waited for a

signal from Young. Calvo approached a security battalion evacuating across

the mountains on Evvia, thinking they were guerrillas. Realizing his mis-

take, he shouted, “Don’t shoot, we are Americans!” One ‹red anyway and

shot him through the lungs, dragged him for 200 yards, robbed him of his

papers, gun, and shoes, and left him to die. News of Calvo’s hemorrhage

and peritonitis revived in Young nightmares of his own recovery, including

the insatiable thirst that he could not slake for fear of infection. Posthaste he dispatched a doctor and nurse from Evangelismos Hospital, armed with

drugs and ice to save Calvo.

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