Greek Spy Chief Quits Over ‘Mishandled’ Phone Tapping Operation

Greece’s top spy has stepped down amid allegations that a journalist and an opposition politician had their mobile phones targeted by spying software.

Panagiotis Kontoleon, the head of the national intelligence service, resigned Friday following a “mishandling of legal surveillance operations,” according to an emailed statement from the office of Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis. Kontoleon told a parliamentary committee that his agency had spied on a journalist, Reuters reported this week, citing two sources who it said were present at the meeting.