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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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …

I have been asked “Why did you spend eighteen months researching to locate World War 2 women espionage agents to interview, when there are some historical accounts and novels on the …

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 …

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 …

Before WW 2 Major Marina Raskova was the first woman to be awarded the distinction of “Hero/ine of the Soviet Union.” She was the first female pilot and navigator for the Soviet Air Force …

“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 Write …

In 1777 George Washington wrote a letter to Nathaniel Sackett engaging him to organise an espionage network and to spy for the Continental Army. Washington asked Sackett because he had produced the …

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 …

Canadian spymaster Sir William Stephenson, known as Intrepid, who directed British Security Coordination for the Western Hemisphere said that Amy Thorpe Pack Brousse, an American citizen, was …

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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …

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. These women …