Mathilde “The Cat” Carre (1910-1970) was a French double agent during WWII. Carre makes for an interesting study in that her treason is based on nothing more than self-preservation and possibly the desire for a long hot bath. Carre was born in France, educated at the Sorbonne, became a school teacher, married, and moved to [...]
Velvalee Dickinson
Velvalee Dickinson (1893-1980) sounds like a name more befitting a Wisconsin cheese heiress than a WWII spy, but a spy she was and her undercover monicker of “The Doll Woman” is highly appropriate for this broad’s shenanigans. Velvalee was born in Sacremento, California and educated at Stanford University. In the mid 1920′s, Velvalee went to [...]
Ana Montes
I’ve always heard it that Hell hath no fury like a women scorned, but lately I’m more inclined to think it is that Hell hath no fury like a woman with a cause. Anna Montes (1957-) is the daughter of the career Army doctor. Born in West Germany and bounced around a bit as a [...]
Kelly Therese Warren
Kelly Warren (1966-), part of the Clyde Lee Conrad US Army spy-ring, was convicted of consipiracy to commit espionage and sentenced to 25 years in prison in 1999. Clyde Lee Conrad was a sergeant in the Army serving in Germany during the final days of the Cold War. He, along with 3 other Army personnel, [...]
Ethel Rosenberg
Ethel Rosenberg (1915-1953) and her husband, Julius, were executed for espionage in the early days of the Cold War. As documents related to the case are now becoming declassified, one has to ask: Ethel Rosenberg, Spy-Dame or Dame Blamed? Ethel Greenglass was born to New York City Jewish immigrants in 1915. She dreamed of being [...]
Isabelle Cheng
Isabelle Cheng (1970-), aka Chang Nian-Tzu, embroiled herself in a serious brouhaha here in the US four years ago when the US Department of State discovered that one of our own, Donald Keyser, was involved in a tryst with Cheng who is a Taiwanese Spy Dame. The details aren’t terribly clear but what we do [...]
The Dames Hunting Aldrich Ames
1990′s were not a good time for the US intelligence community. Both the FBI and CIA has suffered terribly at the hands of traitors in the form of Robert Hanssen and Aldrich Ames, but it is Ames who is considered to have done the most damage to the CIA’s overseas assets. Ames began working for [...]
Peggy Shippen Arnold
Benedict Arnold, the most infamous traitor in American history, has been undergoing a bit of transformation as late: one from being a nefarious turn-coat to that of being an under-appreciated, brilliant leader who was duped by love. Now I’m all for calling spade a spade, if nothing else, this blogs shows the wily and wonderful [...]
The Bond Girls
Oh, what is there to write about the Bond Girls that hasn’t already been written? After many, many years of Ian Fleming’s 007, some patterns begin to develop with regards to all girls Bond: Some are spies, most are not. They enjoy 15 minutes of fame in one film and then disappear. They have wildly [...]
Axis Sally
Another case where a broad gets labeled a spy when, really, she’s just a propogandist, that is to say, a chick who talks smack. Portland, Maine native, Mildred Gillars (1900-1988), while studying overseas in Germany prior to WWII, was duped recruited by a professor with whom she was involved, and became the voice of propaganda [...]
