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A former OSS spy looks back to his training in one of the key intelligence agencies during World War II, his experience in espionage and his remarkable metamorphosis from boy to man, man to soldier, and soldier to spy. Helias Doundoulakis was born July 12, 1923, in Canton, Ohio, to Greek immigrant parents, grew up in Crete, Greece, and returned to America in 1945 after serving in the United States Army and the OSS. When his maternal grandmother became blind, the family packed and moved to Greece to care for her. Mr. Doundoulakis was still in high school when Axis forces invaded Crete in 1941. Nevertheless, he joined the Cretan resistance movement and worked directly under English Intelligence with the legendary saboteur and author Patrick Leigh Fermor. His friendship with Leigh Fermor would serve as a catalyst for his future role in the OSS. Eventually, Doundoulakis fled, hiding in the Cretan mountains for a month. He finally escaped to Egypt on a torpedo boat provided by Leigh Fermor. Billeted in the Special Operations Executives' lavish villa in Cairo, he was trained as a saboteur and then enlisted in the American Army. He was transferred to the OSS and was assigned to the SI, "S

Author

Doundoulakis, Helias, Gafni, Gabriella

Publisher

[United States]: Xlibris

Published

2014

Language

EN

ISBN

9781499059830

Subjects

History, Humanities

Updated

2026-03-24