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Paul Laity: Mata Hari, 8 January 2004
Female Intelligence: Women and Espionage in the First World War
by Tammy Proctor.
New York, 205 pp., $27, June 2003,0 8147 6693 5 Show More
by Tammy Proctor.
New York, 205 pp., $27, June 2003,
“... in a hollow broom handle. Thanks to books like this one, the history of female espionage – from Aphra Behn to Elizabeth Van Lew to Lotus Blossom to Stella Rimington – is slowly being filled out. Proctor believes, however, that female intelligence work is even now generally regarded as ‘exceptional, rare and surprising’ – in popular ... ”