Definitely not a spy, but this monarch held an even better title, one of “Spymistress”. Americans tend to have this idea about England, where the country seems to preternaturally have its act together, however, not many Yanks know that at one time, The Great Empire once existed in a state of near chaos. Queen Elizabeth [...]
Judee Burgoon
I could be really teed off at this broad for dashing my hopes of what I thought would be a kick-ass thesis by accomplishing it first, but I am too in awe of her massive mental abilities, and as such, have decided to profile her instead. Judee-doll was born in Ames, Iowa in 1948. A [...]
Letitia Long
If I were a praying girl, I would be screaming “Amen and Hallelujah” from the rooftops today over the confirmation of Letitia Long as the new Director of the National Geospatial Intelligence Agency. But since I am not, let’s just discuss Long instead. But if I may, can I comment on the fact that there [...]
Millicent Bagot
Millicent Jessie Eleanor Bagot (1907-2006) could smell a rat at twenty paces and had an illustrious career as one of the UK’s premier spy hunters and what we now call Whistleblowers. The last decade has been full of Dame Whistleblowers so we should pay particular attention to the woman who made a career of sniffing [...]
Countess Markievicz/Constance Gore-Booth
Constance Gore-Booth (1868-1927) daughter of the famous Arctic explorer Sir Henry Gore-Booth, made a name for herself by jigging her way out of her father’s shadow and becoming the Matriarch of Irish female insurrectionists. Constance was born in London to a famous father who owned a large estate in County Sligo Ireland. Sir Henry was [...]
Noor Inayat Khan
Noor Inayat Khan (1914-1944), another SOE dame, is remembered for being the first female radio operator sent into occupied France during WWII, unfortunately, she is also, incorrectly, remembered for being a princess. Noor has an interesting family lineage in that her father, Hazrat Khan, was descended from a defunct Muslim royal line and was also [...]
Edith Bolling Galt Wilson
In honor of Election Day, I am going to devote this entry to all things presidential. Edith Wilson (1872-1961), second wife of Woodrow Wilson and First Lady of the United States from 1915-1921, is remembered by a number of titles including “The Secret President” and “The First Lady to Run the Government”, but I like [...]
Maureen Baginski
Maureen Baginski is a distinguished member of this Agent’s favorite tribe of dames: cryptologists. After a long and successful career at the NSA, Baginski left to take on the world of domestic intelligence clean-up at the FBI as the first Executive Assistant Director of Intelligence. Baginski (1953-), who graduated from college with degrees in Slavic [...]
Grace Hopper
Navy Rear Admiral “Amazing Grace” Murray Hopper (1906-1992) revolutionized the world and you probably didn’t even know it. Lead inventor of the Harvard Mark I & II computers, largely considered to be the first computerized calculator, and inventor of the first compiler for a computer programming language, this gal changed life as we know it, [...]
Harriet Tubman
Harriet Tubman (1820-1913) is most often recognized for her skillful navigation of the Underground Railroad, but too few people seem to know that she was also a highly successful Union spy. What is a long and worthy life story to know is unfortunately going to get the Reader’s Digest treatment here and then I’m going [...]
