The Spy Chief Sheikh Quietly Buying Up Greece's Prime Real Estate
On a pine-fringed stretch of coast in the Peloponnese, where a faded holiday club once stood, a $236 million Waldorf Astoria is taking shape. In Athens, a five-story building gazes straight across at the Parthenon. Both lead back to one of the most powerful and least visible men in the Gulf. Sheikh Tahnoon bin Zayed Al Nahyan is the brother of the president of the United Arab Emirates and the country's national security adviser. He also chairs International Holding Company, a sprawling Abu Dhabi conglomerate with interests in real estate, energy, health care and technology. It reported asse