MI6 Athens Station

Greece was an early field of MI6 operations. During the First World War, when the service was still known as MI1c, Compton Mackenzie set up the Aegean Intelligence Service as its local field organization (ref 3, p.43).

In 1984, the head of the British Council in Athens, Kenneth Whitty, was killed by a Palestinian group, who were believed to have mistaken him for an MI6 officer from whom he had bought a car (ref 8). This may have been Paul Bergne (ref 10).