Who is Griguri Elliot?

Griguri Elliot is a descendant of a Russian immigrant. He is thoroughly American, except that he worked abroad most of his life. In WWII he works as a POW administrator in Regensburg and meets Matthew Dixon who is doing a similar job. He later works as a CIA operative in Vietnam, before a mid life crisis that sees him escape to India. He returns to service of a kind looking after a refugee camp in Lebanon.