Famous female spies in movies

Famous female spies in ww2
List of female spies in world war 2
Female spy characters

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Virginia Hall

American SOE spy

For the building, see Virginia Hall (Dallas, Texas).

Virginia Hall GoillotDSC, Croix de Guerre, MBE (April 6, 1906 – July 8, 1982), code named Marie and Diane, was an American who worked with the United Kingdom's clandestine Special Operations Executive (SOE) and the AmericanOffice of Strategic Services (OSS) in France during World War II. The objective of SOE and OSS was to conduct espionage, sabotage and reconnaissance in occupied Europe against the Axis powers, especially Nazi Germany. SOE and OSS agents in France allied themselves with resistance groups and supplied them with weapons and equipment parachuted in from England. After World War II, Hall worked for the Special Activities Division of the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA).

Hall was a pioneering agent for the SOE, arriving in Vichy France on 23 August 1941,^[1] the first female agent to take up residence in France. She created the Heckler network in Lyon. Over the next 15 months, she "became an expert at support operations – organizing resistance movements; su

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In From the Cold: 25 Hot Spy Books Written by Women

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Breakthrough novelists

Gayle Lynds’ Masquerade (1996) was the first spy novel written by a woman to become a bestseller, helping to open the ‘bro’ genre to other female writers. Yet many lists of Must-Read Spy Novels are still top-heavy with male writers (with absolutely no disrespect meant to literary luminaries John le Carré, Len Deighton, Anthony Horowitz, Alan Furst, Mick Herron, and their brethren.)

Even Wikipedia’s top 125 most notable espionage writers only include about five female spy writers. In an age where even James Bond is willing to take a back seat to the first female 007, isn’t it time for publishers, journalists, and fans of the genre to admit more female authors to the old boys club? Some suspect the reluctance may start with the authors themselves.

“I think women suffer from imposter syndrome more than men, so they are sometimes reticent to make themselves vulnerable publicly - which writing and publishing a book does,” said Alex Finley, a former CIA counterterrorism officer and Russia exper

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Explore the shadowy world of espionage and uncover the secret history of female spies whose heroic achievements, courage and strength outshine James Bond.

This Sisterhood of Spies are remarkable collection of women who have completed some of the most daring missions in history, using everything in their power to gain information, and risking it all for a cause they believed in.

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MATA HARI

Mata Hari embodied all the intrigue of espionage and remains the most famous female spy in history. The dancer turned WWI spy is said to have seduced diplomats and military officers into giving up their secrets. In February 1917, French authorities arrested her for espionage after intercepting an enemy telegram implicating her as a German spy. She was accused of revealing details of the Allies’ new weapon, found guilty and sentenced to death. A femme fatale, using sex appeal to entice, manipulate…and extract secrets. It’s the stuff of Hollywood movies. That is the legend and legacy of Mata Hari.

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