Diane Greig

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 first post …

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 University of …

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 required by his …

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 …

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 beginning at …

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 …

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 …

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 …

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 software …

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 Union." She …

"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 …

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. …

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 annual …

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 …

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 Musaji is …

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, …

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 …

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 …

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 …

I’ll be part of the Write on Bowen Festival this year (2021) speaking about Invisible Women: The Podcast based on my interviews of WW 2 women spies in 2004/5. I'll …

The U.S. and the U.K have had ongoing mandates to increase the participation of women, those with disabilities and racial minorities in spy agencies that interpret foreign communications and run human …

The women agents I interviewed all went on to traditional lives post WW 2; wife/mother except one who found equality in intellectual/political/academic pursuits in another culture, India. …

Andree (Dedee) de Jongh code name Postman, established the WW 2 "Comet Line" in 1940. It operated in Belgium and France to evacuate downed Allied airmen usually through neutral Spain to Britain via …

Like Celine in Invisible Women Episode 7, Pearl Cornioley was recruited and trained in guerrilla warfare by the Special Operations Executive (SOE) and parachuted into France in 1943 as a courier. …