Xenophon Kalamatiano

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Born in Austria, the only son of a Greek father and a Russian mother,^[4] he became the chief field agent for DeWitt Clinton Poole, U.S. Consul General in Moscow, and American spymaster in Revolutionary Russia.

Kalamatiano was a student at University of Chicago and became involved with the "Chicago Group" of Russophiles and information gathers that included the university president William Rainey Harper and philanthropist and world traveller Charles Richard Crane^{[citation needed]} Dr. Harper's son Samuel N. Harper joined the group, and as the US did not have a CIA at the time, an as overseas spies in the U.S. State Department and Office of Naval Intelligence were hampered by budgets and politics, reports from "U.S. casuals" and affiliated citizens were solicited.^[5]