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Diane Greig

Parachute Wings

Celine parachuted into France ten days before D-Day to courier and train maquis groups in weaponry behind the lines (Invisible Women Episode 7). In 2005 she told me that in training with the Special …
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November 11, 2021 by Diane Greig

Infiltrating the IRA

As I landed in Northern Ireland rain was running across the plane’s windows and although the ground scape looked rather bleak, the old wooden out-buildings were a captivating aqua marine blue …
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November 1, 2021 by Diane Greig

Silence of Female Agents

Are women agents better at remaining silent than their male counterparts when interrogated? In 2005 I interviewed a retired Canadian operative from the Canadian Security Intelligence Service …
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October 25, 2021 by Diane Greig

Espionage Conversations

Present day women writers are correcting the historical loss of women’s espionage narratives by crafting articles and books on the lives of WW 2 and CIA women agents. They are bringing …
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October 24, 2021 by Diane Greig

Mona Parsons: The Woman Who Thwarted the Nazi Firing Squad

On a recent fall trip to Nova Scotia, I stopped at the memorial for Mona Parsons, the only Canadian woman civilian to be imprisoned by the Nazis in WW 2 for resistance activities. In 1941 she …
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October 7, 2021 by Diane Greig

Mathematical Wizards

Although I’ve written Invisible Women articles about American spies operating in the field (Martha Peterson and Elizabeth Bentley) during the Cold War in the U.S. and U.S.S.R., this is the …
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October 4, 2021 by Diane Greig

Idealist, Spy, Defector

Elizabeth Bentley, an American, graduated from Vassar College in 1930 with a degree in languages. While completing a Master’s degree at Columbia University she won a scholarship to the …
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September 28, 2021 by Diane Greig

Cold War Widow

Martha Peterson commented, “After we were married, he told me he had applied for the Central Intelligence Agency or CIA.” Her husband, like Lilian’s in Invisible Women Ep. 3, as …
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September 27, 2021 by Diane Greig

Liberté

Liberté is a new short film written and acted in by Sam Naz (British broadcaster/actress) about the heroine, Noor Inayat Khan, a Special Operations Executive (SOE) agent who was one of the first women …
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September 19, 2021 by Diane Greig

Resistance Youth

Michelle Corjon, a resistance fighter, was awarded France’s Croix de Guerre and the silver medal for French Resistance. She was the youngest member ever to serve in the French resistance …
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September 9, 2021 by Diane Greig

Red Melita

Operation Enormoz was a WW2 Soviet venture to recruit British and American spies who sympathised with communism. Although the Soviet Union had joined forces with the U.S and Britain against Nazi …
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September 3, 2021 by Diane Greig

Ordinary People

In WW 2 and the Cold War many ordinary U.K. and U.S. citizens were approached to become spies for the Soviet Union. The individuals who said yes did so because of unusual circumstances and/or …
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September 3, 2021 by Diane Greig

Buffalo Soldier

Cathay Williams was the first Black woman to become a soldier in the U.S Army and a Buffalo Soldier in the American Indian Wars. Although there were laws against women enlisting, in her determination …
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August 30, 2021 by Diane Greig

Gaining Favour

On the heels of Facebook’s announcement recently that Iranian spies were targeting U.S. medical, military and the technology sectors through social media accounts, Proofpoint, a security …
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August 25, 2021 by Diane Greig

Marina Raskova

Марина Михайловна Малинина, Marina Mikhaylovna Raskova, photo circa 1938 Before WW 2 Major Marina Raskova was the first woman to be awarded the distinction of “Hero/ine of the Soviet …
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August 16, 2021 by Diane Greig

Nadezhda Popova

“Almost every time we had to sail through a wall of enemy fire,” Nadezhda Popova stated. She became the WW 2 deputy commander of the 588th Night Bomber Regiment, flying 852 missions bombing Nazi …
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August 16, 2021 by Diane Greig

Women Night Bombardiers

The Nachthexen or Night Witches of WW 2, as the Nazis nicknamed them, would swoop down without a sound except for the momentary whooshing of their plywood planes just before they dropped their bombs. …
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August 14, 2021 by Diane Greig

Festival of Readers and Writers

It was a lovely weekend on Bowen Island (Aug 7-8, 2021) to celebrate the island’s creative spirit and its local performers and writers of scripts, poetry, novels, and magazines. The …
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August 10, 2021 by Diane Greig

Shaping Espionage

In 1777 George Washington wrote a letter to Nathaniel Sackett engaging him to organise an espionage network and to spy for the Continental Army. Gilbert Stuart Williamstown Portrait of George …
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August 7, 2021 by Diane Greig

Canada’s Secret Service

Women have been appointed to lead the Canadian Security Intelligence Service’s (CSIS), Toronto office; Katherine Hannah is head of Canada’s largest intelligence gathering office and Zahra …
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August 3, 2021 by Diane Greig

Codename Cynthia

Photo: World War II Database Canadian spymaster Sir William Stephenson, known as Intrepid, who directed British Security Coordination for the Western Hemisphere said that Amy Thorpe Pack Brousse, …
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July 29, 2021 by Diane Greig

Secret Facebook Army

There is a secret Iranian army on Facebook to surveil, steal and undermine U.S., European, and U.K. interests and products across all the major industrial sectors including aerospace/defence and …
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July 29, 2021 by Diane Greig

Honouring Women Commandos

Hannah Szenes, while living in Palestine in 1943 and writing song lyrics/poetry volunteered for a Jewish commando unit. Like Liliana in IW Episode 3, with the help of the British military, she …
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July 25, 2021 by Diane Greig

Mapping Women

In the late 1800s night spies in colonial Calcutta wrote about deviant women ~ their characteristics and where they went. Victoria Memorial in Calcutta These spies clandestinely surveilled and …
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July 21, 2021 by Diane Greig
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