In Disguise! by Ryan Ann Hunter

Author:Ryan Ann Hunter
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Aladdin

Double agents don’t serve both sides. They deceive one side into believing they are working for it when they are actually stealing its secrets.

After Thomas died a few years later, Marthe traveled back to France. During World War II, she came out of retirement. Though well into her fifties, she worked undercover again, this time with the French Resistance.

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MATA HARI ’S MISSTEPS

Mata Hari was the stage name for the entertainer Margaretha Geertruida Zelle, born in Holland in 1876. She was an imaginative child who was always pretending. On her sixth birthday, her doting father gave her a child-sized carriage pulled by two tall goats, and he lavished other gifts on her. It was a blow when he lost his business, and he left her with her mother, who soon died. Margaretha went from relative to relative, who mostly felt her spoiled and hard to get along with.

After a miserable failed marriage, Margaretha moved to Paris in her twenties. At first she had trouble finding work, but at parties made up stories about learning sacred dances in the Indies, and Mata Hari was born. She danced throughout Europe and was in Berlin when the Germans entered World War I. Because Mata Hari had gentlemen friends in many countries, she was soon being watched by secret-service organizations on both sides.

Finally, Mata Hari’s pretending got her into trouble. She was asked to spy for France, and she got carried away with the idea. She said she wanted one big job and she wanted to be paid one million francs.

Mata Hari was sent to Spain to meet up with a German diplomat. She spent time coaxing information from him, telling him some gossip about French troops to show him she was on the German side. But he caught on to her “spying” and gave her false information. He sent his spies a message that he knew the French would intercept, using an old code he knew they had broken. He implied Mata Hari was spying for the Germans.

Instead of being paid for revealing German secrets when she returned to Paris, Mata Hari was arrested, tried, and executed. Despite her muddled attempt to be a spy, she faced the firing squad with gracious courage.

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