social scene – and it wasn’t long before MI6 noticed. His charm and wit allowed him to quickly fall in with the journalists and officials that comprised the D.C. Determined to continue serving his country, Dahl took an assignment doing public relations with the British embassy in Washington D.C. While his career as a British pilot started with a successful run with the Royal Air Force, a crash rendered Dahl unfit to fly. Yes, your favorite children’s book author was also a spy. With two other freed prisoners, Rake traversed the Pyrenees mountain range into Spain and eventually Rake made his way to Gibraltar, where he was finally reunited with his Special Ops unit after almost a year in the field. But Rake's charm and luck saved him once again, as he convinced a sympathetic prison commandant to release him. On his way to rejoin his team in Paris, Rake was arrested and sent to a POW camp. But once Rake was able to secure a fake ID, he quickly fled town. Rake quickly moved in with Halder – who believed his lover was an out-of-work Belgian actor. After escaping from prison in Dijon, France, he sought to make contact with another agent in Paris, but instead met German Officer Max Halder. During their affair in 1942, he recruited her as a spy, and it was under this role that she embarked on a second affair - this time with senior Gestapo official Hans Bernd Gisevius - and actually served as the intermediary for the two.īritish Special Ops Executive Denis Rake had a knack for getting his way. It was perhaps this absence that led to her falling in with the local OSS representative, Allen Dulles. Fluent in German and French, the war saw her residing in Bern, wife of a Swiss accountant who was frequently on the road. Mary Bancroft was born in Boston in 1903. They took their missions so far, in fact, that at one point they were engaged to 38 soldiers between them. Operating in Tennessee, the sisters used their charm to extract info from Union soldiers. Ginny and Lottie Moon were two sisters who served as Confederate spies during the Civil War. While most of the boys and girls on this list were ‘active’ (ahem!) during World War II, the concept of ‘the honeypot’ started long before the Nazi’s invaded Paris. READ MORE: Tinker, Tailor, Writer, Spy: 5 Secret Agents Who Became Authors Wilson, today we’re going to bring to you five other honeypot spies – men and women each as conniving, witty, and dangerous as Alexander Wilson himself. Wilson conducts her own postmortem investigation on her late husband – an MI6 spy.īut rather than spoil the surprises of Mrs. Featuring the charming and talented Ruth Wilson ( Luther, Small Island) portraying her real-life grandmother, Alison, the mini-series weaves a labyrinthian tale as the titular Mrs. And for that purpose, we cannot recommend the Masterpiece program, Mrs. And while many of us believe we could excel at it, it’s probably more accurate that very few of us could.īut lucky for us, we can enter that world through film and television. It takes a certain level of intelligence, duplicity and talent to be a spy. The concept of discovering secrets – be it from the shadows, or in plain sight – has an air of romance to it. There’s something about the word that sends a frisson of excitement down your spine, be you 5 or 50.
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