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dotCOMM 2021 Award

July 25, 2021 by Admin

Invisible Women has won a Platinum Award in the 2021 dotComm Awards. The announcement was made on July 15, 2021 in Dallas, Texas. dotCOMM Awards’ categories represent the elements of the web’s …

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Honouring Women Commandos

July 25, 2021 by Diane Greig

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 was …

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Mapping Women

July 21, 2021 by Diane Greig

In the late 1800s night spies in colonial Calcutta wrote about deviant women ~ their characteristics and where they went. These spies clandestinely surveilled and wrote about any women, European or …

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Write On Bowen

July 14, 2021 by Diane Greig

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 read …

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Shadow of Intelligence

July 13, 2021 by Diane Greig

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 …

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Do You Feel Invisible?

July 5, 2021 by Diane Greig

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. These women …

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Podcast Awards

July 2, 2021 by Admin

Please support our nominations in the Podcast Awards The People’s Choice Podcast Awards is the longest running podcast award – this is their 16th year. The awards are open to podcasts …

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Fight Without Arms

June 30, 2021 by Diane Greig

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 …

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I Did Nothing Civil

June 28, 2021 by Diane Greig

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. She …

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Escape Lines

June 25, 2021 by Diane Greig

María Anatol Arístegui also know as Maritxu was born in Spain and exiled with her family to France during the Spanish Civil War. (See this newsletter for an article about her – scroll down to …

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I Am Not Invisible

June 21, 2021 by Diane Greig

I Am Not Invisible (#IANI) focuses on highlighting and increasing the conversation about women veterans of which there are about 2 million in the U.S. Women have served in various and critical roles …

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OSS’ Women Agents

June 15, 2021 by Diane Greig

Writing and presenting about women who perform in unexpected societal roles is always interesting for the writer and the audience. Linda Matchett will be discussing her book, Women in Espionage, at …

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Season One Wrap

June 10, 2021 by Diane Greig

With the release of Invisible Women’s Episode 8, Heroine’s Journey, the podcast wraps up Season One. I will continue to post articles and updates on the website, so please check it and subscribe to …

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Heroine’s Journey

June 10, 2021 by Admin

Episode 8: In this episode you'll hear Jennis’s story. She was a young American woman who started out translating Japanese documents, and ended up being recruited by the OSS to become an espionage …

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Women’s Intuition

June 9, 2021 by Diane Greig

The CIA states that women make the best spies because of women’s intuition. Is this an outdated societal expectation or is this statement based on something more? In a recent article by …

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Spies for Hire

June 7, 2021 by Diane Greig

Since more countries, companies and politicians are relying on private investigators or spies to collect sensitive information, it is becoming exceptionally difficult even for journalists, who have a …

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Pioneering Career

May 30, 2021 by Diane Greig

In 1968 Janine Brookner was enrolled in the CIA’s secretive operations training program. She was one of 6 women registered, and although she knew that women were generally treated as second-class …

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Hurricane Queen

May 25, 2021 by Diane Greig

In the Second World War 600,000 Canadian women stepped up to help the war effort. One of them was Elizabeth (Elsie) MacGill, the first female aeronautical engineer globally to graduate with a …

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Antifascist Rebel

May 25, 2021 by Diane Greig

In 2004/5 when I was interviewing women agents from the WW 2 era, I was also capturing the experiences of others in intelligence and/or WW 2, to broaden my general knowledge. It was at this time that …

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Musical Scores

May 18, 2021 by Diane Greig

Diana de Rosso was an Anglo-Italian opera singer and a courier for the Allied Forces in Europe. Having grown up in the south of France with a Welsh mother, she went to London when war broke out. After …

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Soviet Soprano

May 17, 2021 by Diane Greig

The adventuresome and talented Nadezhda Plevitskaya was born in a Russian village in 1884. Being one of 11 children she was placed in a nunnery which she fled by joining a travelling circus. In 1909 …

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Private Collection

May 12, 2021 by Diane Greig

Kathleen (Kay) Moore was born in 1914 in Alberta, Canada. In 1936, graduating university in French language and literature, she went to study in Paris on a Sorbonne scholarship. Although her Sorbonne …

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Embodiment

May 10, 2021 by Diane Greig

Episode 7: In this episode you'll hear Celine's story. She was a young French woman, trained by the British Special Operations Executive, who parachuted back into France to coordinate underground …

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Irish Resistors

May 3, 2021 by Diane Greig

Although Ireland remained neutral during WW 2 some of the Irish did not. A plaque at the Irish College in Paris commemorates 50 Irish women and men who fought in the French Resistance ~ half of them …

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