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Nathalie "Lily" Sergueiew (January 24, 1912 – May 17, 1950) was a double agent who worked for MI5 during World War II under the codename "Treasure". She played a significant role in the Double-Cross System, particularly by deceiving the Germans about the location of the D-Day landings.
Estimates of the number of F Section female agents vary. Thirty-nine female SOE agents were trained in Britain. The following list of forty-one agents is taken from M.R.D. Foot, the official historian of the SOE, with two additions: Madeleine Barclay who served (and died) on a ship contracted to SOE and Sonia Olschanezky, a locally-recruited courier who was executed.
Peggy Taylor (December 5, 1920 – June 8, 2006 [1]) was a French World War II spy. [2] She was known for assassinating a Nazi SS colonel when she was just 21 years old. Early life
The Wolves at the Door: The True Story of America's Greatest Female Spy. Guilford, CT: The Lyons Press. ISBN 978-1-62681-292-5. OCLC 893688998. Purnell, Sonia (2019). A Woman of No Importance: The Untold Story of the American Spy Who Helped Win World War II. New York: Viking, an imprint of Penguin Random House LLC. ISBN 978-0-7352-2530-5.
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Churchill's Spy School (2010) [23] Documentary about the SOE "finishing school" on the Beaulieu estate in Hampshire. Les Femmes de l'Ombre (aka Female Agents) (2008) French film about five SOE female agents and their contribution towards the D-Day invasions. Nancy Wake Codename: The White Mouse (1987)
Churchill's Spy School (2010) [40] Documentary about the SOE "finishing school" on the Beaulieu estate in Hampshire. Les Femmes de l'Ombre (aka Female Agents) (2008) French film about five SOE female agents and their contribution towards the D-Day invasions. Nancy Wake Codename: The White Mouse (1987)
This is a category for female wartime spies and women accused of being wartime spies. Pages in category "Female wartime spies" The following 139 pages are in this ...