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The Greek Intelligence Service and Post-9/11 Challenges
| Content Provider | Semantic Scholar |
|---|---|
| Author | Nomikos, John M. |
| Copyright Year | 2004 |
| Abstract | Human beings have always needed information to secure their livelihood and their safety – the location of the best fishing stream, the site where firewood might be gathered, when deer herds were likely to appear. In the classical Greece, covert action and clandestine operations were among the most common and yet most vilified methods of statecraft. All states used (Athens and Sparta), no state wants to admit the fact, and if the operations became public the world severely disapproved. Greeks used local citizens who served as “proxenos” (1) The “proxenos” had to be a citizen of the state in which he served, not of the state he represented. These men (“proxenos”) became the equivalent of modern spies or agents as a conduit for information and clandestine activities in the course of normal duties during the Peloponnesian Wars. (2) |
| Starting Page | 75 |
| Ending Page | 83 |
| Page Count | 9 |
| File Format | PDF HTM / HTML |
| DOI | 10.1080/16161262.2004.10555101 |
| Volume Number | 4 |
| Alternate Webpage(s) | http://www.fas.org/irp/world/greece/nomikos.pdf |
| Alternate Webpage(s) | https://fas.org/irp/world/greece/nomikos.pdf |
| Alternate Webpage(s) | https://doi.org/10.1080/16161262.2004.10555101 |
| Language | English |
| Access Restriction | Open |
| Content Type | Text |
| Resource Type | Article |
