Classical Spies

by Allen, Susan Heuck

• ISBN13: 9780472117697
• ISBN10: 0472117696
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2011-10-05
• Publisher: Univ of Michigan Pr

Summary

"Classical Spieswill be a lasting contribution to the discipline and will stimulate further research. Susan Heuck Allen presents to a wide readership a topic of interest that is important and has been neglected." --William M. Calder III, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign Classical Spiesis the first insiders' account of the operations of the American intelligence service in World War II Greece. Initiated by archaeologists in Greece and the eastern Mediterranean, the network drew on scholars' personal contacts and knowledge of languages and terrain. While modern readers might think Indiana Jones is just a fantasy character, Classical Spiesdisclosesevents where even Indy would feel at home: burying Athenian dig records in an Egyptian tomb, activating prep-school connections to establish spies code-named Vulture and Chickadee, and organizing parachute drops. Susan Heuck Allen reveals remarkable details about a remarkable group of individuals. Often mistaken for mild-mannered professors and scholars, such archaeologists as Princeton's Rodney Young, Cincinnati's Jack Caskey and Carl Blegen, Yale's Jerry Sperling and Dorothy Cox, and Bryn Mawr's Virginia Grace proved their mettle as effective spies in an intriguing game of cat and mouse with their Nazi counterparts. Relying on interviews with individuals sharing their stories for the first time, previously unpublished secret documents, private diaries and letters, and personal photographs, Classical Spiesoffers an exciting and personal perspective on the history of World War II.

Table of Contents

List of Abbreviations	p. xi
Prologue	p. 1
"On the Rim of a Volcano"	p. 8
Leaving the Ivory Tower	p. 31
Flight	p. 51
From Relief to Intelligence: Forging a "Grecian Formula"	p. 68
Recruiting the Four Captains	p. 84
"Playing Ball" and Striking Out with the British	p. 102
"Preparing the Underground Railroad"	p. 117
"Entering the Danger Zone": The "Samos Show"	p. 139
"Oriental Endurance" and the "Somber World of Snafu"	p. 163
Operation Honeymoon	p. 180
The Birds Began to Sing	p. 192
Liberation and the "Dance of the Seven Veils"	p. 213
Things Fall Apart	p. 238
"Playing a Dangerous Game"	p. 262
Epilogue	p. 271
Appendixes	p. 291
Internal Assessment	p. 293
Who's Who	p. 301
OSS Greek Desk Missions	p. 308
OSS Bases and Secret Harbors or Coded Targets	p. 317
Notes	p. 323
Bibliography	p. 397
Index	p. 413
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