High profile people make the most interesting spies. Their fame and subsequent connections allow them access to places everyday schmoes can only dream of (like a certain Miss Baker during WWII). It makes me wonder though about Princess Stephanie Julianne Richter zu Hohenlohe-Waldenburg-Schillingsfürst (1891 – 1972), a high-society, Austrian of Jewish descent married into German royalty and [...]
Cpl. Barbara Lauwers
Let me just start by saying that Cpl. Barbara Lauwers had the best job ever. Seriously, only a broad could think of a weapon so simple, so elegant as a mind game of this nature. I am, of course, speaking of the one and only OSS Lonely Hearts Club. Sigh. Makes my young heart go [...]
Amy Elizabeth “Betty” Thorpe Pack
I’ve been a little loathe to write of Elizabeth “Betty” Thorpe Pack (1910-1963), famous WWII Spy-Dame, for the simple reason that she is too closely associated with a term this Agent truly dislikes: Sexpionage. Sexpionage, quite simply, is a practice attributed to the dames who use those other “womanly charms” to get the intel or [...]
Virginia Hall
aka: “The Limping Lady” (1906-1982) Virginia Hall grew up very well-educated and in a very posh manner in Baltimore, Maryland. She was studying in Europe when she became an embassy clerk in Poland in 1931. Things went swimmingly for Ginny until she accidentally shot herself while turkey hunting and lost her left leg for her [...]
Julia Child
Aside from her incredible life of writing fabulous cookbooks, hosting a much-beloved cooking show on TV, and introducing everyday American schmoes to the lush and wonderful world of French Cuisine, a little known fact about Julia Child (1912-2004) is that she worked for the OSS during WWII. Being too tall for the Navy at a [...]
