I Was Trained to Be a Spy Book Ii
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In Cairo, the author and his brother were asked to join the English Intelligence Service, but rather, pursued the American OSS, or Office of Strategic Services, the newly formed American intelligence counterpart. They were enlisted into the US Army, and attached to the OSS, where the author was trained in the Secret Intelligence sector, which included parachute jumping, wireless/Morse code training, commando/defense training, locks/safe-cracking techniques, escape methods, and environment assimilation techniques.
After being transformed into a skilled spy, the author was sent back to Greece undercover, and along with a Greek naval intelligence officer, set up a communications cell in Salonica whereby daily coded messages to OSS Headquarters in Cairo were sent. One such message describes the course of events surrounding the bombing of the main railroad yard in Salonica, and the loss of thousands of German troops.
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.
Helias Doundoulakis
Helias Doundoulakis was only two years old when his family moved from America to the Greek island of Crete. He was twenty-two when the war ended in 1945, during which time he was transformed from resistance fighter to soldier in the American Army. Due in part to his experience with the SOE and fluency in Greek, English and German, he was recruited by the Office of Strategic Services (the OSS). This would be his life-changing moment. After the war, he became a civil engineer and inventor, holding the patent for the world’s largest radio telescope, the “Arecibo Antenna.” Aside from the present narrative, he is the author of two books, published in Greek, and three others: I Was Trained To Be A Spy Books I and II, and My Unique Lifetime Association With Patrick Leigh Fermor. The author lives with his wife of sixty years, Rita, in Freeport, New York. They have four children and ten grandchildren. Gabriella Gafni is an acclaimed ghostwriter and owner of GMG Ghostwriting Services. She holds a B.A. in foreign languages and cultures, and a law degree from the Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law in New York. She and her family presently reside in North Carolina.
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