This podcast, it's a Costerton Touchstone production.

The first time I ever met George Tennant was at the Greek Festival at St. George

Greek Orthodox Church in Bethesda, Maryland. It was the summertime, and Greek festivals

all around America are major fundraisers for the church. So you go and you buy a yiro or some lamb or a souvlaki or whatever,

and they usually have a band and people are dancing.

It's a fun way to go through 50 bucks.

I'm standing in line for a Greek dessert called Lukumadez, which are just fried

balls of dough. They put them in a bowl, they slather them with honey and cinnamon, and

they're the most scrumptious things you've ever had in your life. I'm standing in line

with my brother, and it's kind of a long line, and I said to him, you know the best lukumadas I ever had were on the island of Hios when I was on my honeymoon with Joanne.

I said, I have never had lukumadas that were so delicious and so perfectly made as I did in Hios.

And just then this guy turns around and he says, I agree.

The most delicious lukumade I've ever had were in Hios.

I recognize him immediately as George Tennant, the deputy director of the CIA.

I said, oh, Mr. Tennant, my name is John Kiriaku.

I'm one of your analysts.

We shook hands.

He said, where are your people from?

I said, Rhodes. He said, nice to meet you.

I said, this is my brother Emmanuel. I told him that I was one of his analysts. And that was the

end of the conversation. About a month later, he did a walk around around the building where he

just went from office to office to office introducing himself and saying, hi, I'm George Tennant, I'm the new deputy director, and shaking everybody's hands.

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