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Unknown to me, my old friend Sir Rupert Draycott, who I’d asked to use his Special Branch connections to assist me in research, was married to a Greek woman whose family had a home on Samothrace which was available for his, or their, use at any time either wanted. He was also a lover of all things Greek, for which I learned he was called a Philhellene. Yet another lesson came when he told me of a saying credited to the German philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche—‘The Greeks have never been overestimated.’
Draycott arrived on the island at roughly the same time as did the team of eight Americans. They came in two ‘People Carriers’ whereas Rupert came by foot and borrowed a car from his Greek family. The party of Americans could all be, so Rupert reported, CIA officers, but there was no w
