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  2. Andrée Borrel - Wikipedia

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    Andrée Raymonde Borrel (18 November 1919 – 6 July 1944), code named Denise, was a French woman who served in the French Resistance and as an agent for Britain's clandestine Special Operations Executive in World War II. [1][2][3] The purpose of SOE was to conduct espionage, sabotage, and reconnaissance in occupied Europe against the Axis ...

  3. List of female SOE agents - Wikipedia

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    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.

  4. Category:Female wartime spies - Wikipedia

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    Madeleine Damerment. Anne Dawson (secret agent) Elizabeth Devereux-Rochester. Velvalee Dickinson. Maria Dobrova. Juliette Dodu. Madame d'Oettlinger. Nancy Hart Douglas. Rachel Dübendorfer.

  5. Virginia Hall - Wikipedia

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    Craig R. Gralley She was a thirty-five-year-old journalist from Baltimore, conspicuous by reddish hair, a strong American accent, an artificial foot, and an imperturbable temper; she took risks often but intelligently. M. R. D. Foot I would give anything to get my hands on that limping Canadian [sic] bitch. reportedly Klaus Barbie, Gestapo chief, Lyon. Early life Virginia Hall was born in ...

  6. Noor Inayat Khan - Wikipedia

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    Noor-un-Nisa Inayat Khan, GC (1 January 1914 – 13 September 1944), also known as Nora Inayat-Khan and Nora Baker, was a British resistance agent in France in the Second World War who served in the Special Operations Executive (SOE). The purpose of SOE was to conduct espionage, sabotage, and reconnaissance in countries occupied by the Axis ...

  7. Violette Szabo - Wikipedia

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    Violette Reine Elizabeth Szabo, GC (née Bushell; 26 June 1921 – c.5 February 1945) was a British-French Special Operations Executive (SOE) agent during the Second World War and a posthumous recipient of the George Cross. On her second mission into occupied France, Szabo was captured by the German army, interrogated, tortured, and deported to ...

  8. Pauline Cushman - Wikipedia

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    Spouse (s) Jere Fryer, August Fichtner, Charles C. Dickinson. Children. Three, Charles and Ida, and adopted daughter Emma. Pauline Cushman (born Harriet Wood; June 10, 1833 – December 2, 1893) was an American actress and a spy for the Union Army during the American Civil War. She is considered one of the most successful Civil War spies.

  9. Ana Montes - Wikipedia

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    Conspiracy to commit espionage (18 U.S.C. § 794) Criminal penalty. 25 years imprisonment. Imprisoned at. FMC Carswell. Ana Belén Montes (born February 28, 1957) is a former American senior analyst at the Defense Intelligence Agency in the United States who spied on behalf of the Cuban government for 17 years.