Category Archives: Espionage

Using the cover name Jacqueline Gautier, the 45-year-old Rudellat worked as a courier, organized supply drops, and became skilled at sabotage after being deployed to France in July 1942.

Blanche Charlet was an influential gallery owner in Brussels after World War I. Known as Agent Japonica and Ventriloquist, Charlet was recruited by the SOE in 1941 and became a courier for the French resistance during WWII.

WWII French resistance member Marie-Louise Dissard, code name Françoise or Victoire, was in her 60s when she took over the escape network known as the Pat O’Leary Line.

Marie-Thérèse Le Chêne was the oldest woman the SOE sent to France—age 52 when she was served as a courier and distributed anti-Nazi materials from November 1942 to August 1943.

Gaby Bloch was a French Resistance fighter during the Nazi occupation of her country during World War II.