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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,
“... hapless men is old, but took on a ” new life during the First World War, when spy fever raged. Tammy Proctor’s feminist history covers the early years of British intelligence, and neither the times nor the institutions were enlightened. The secret services set up in 1909 found inspiration in The Riddle of the Sands and other spy-adventure ... ”