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Despite the bottled-in-Bond flavor, the scene actually took place in wartime Washington. It was recounted recently in London's The People by its heroine, a Mata Hari from Minnesota who worked for British Intelligence under the code name Cynthia. Her real name: Elizabeth Pack. Using the boudoir as Ian Fleming's hero uses a Beretta, she was described by her wartime boss as "the greatest unsung heroine of the war." After the war Cynthia married her onetime prey, the ardent Charles, and with him retreated to a remote 10th century French chateau where she died last...
Britain had Burgess and MacLean, the U.S. its Rosenbergs. But for the most part Frenchmen do not spy, or at least they seldom get caught. Last week France joined the mainstream with its biggest spy case since Mata Hari. In custody for passing secrets to the Russians was a chubby, urbane press attache named Georges Paques, 49, who had served both the French High General Staff and the North Atlantic Treaty Organization. The case was critical because Paques held a "cosmic" security clearance-highest classification for both France and NATO. The man with the cosmic view had access to intelli...
...manners, his wit and his sulks. Wrote Poet André Suares: "Just as the cat rubs itself against the hand, Debussy caresses his soul with the pleasure which he invokes." A natural bohemian, the composer spent nights roaming Montmartre with celebrities of the period ranging from Mata Hari to Marcel Proust...
...long skirt. Explained Sheppard: "Orders from Mrs. Kennedy are accompanied usually by a polite note asking the store or manufacturer please not to tell." But somebody "is always sure to make somebody promise not to breathe a word, and that somebody is hot on the telephone to Mata Hari in a few minutes...
Among U.S. foreign service men who are stationed in Iron Curtain countries, there is an old joke. It is about a foreign service officer who fell in love with a local Mata Hari, took her to bed and was there secretly photographed by Communist agents. When one of the agents later approached the American demanding U.S. secrets in return for the pictures, the foreign service officer looked over the prints and cried happily: "These are great. I'll take ten prints of this one and five of this...