Gaby Bloch
Gaby Bloch was a French Resistance fighter during the Nazi occupation of her country during World War II.
Category Archives: Espionage
Continue reading
Jennifer Seberry
Jennifer Roma Seberry is Professor and former Head, Department of Computer Science at the University of Wollongong.
Stella Rimington
Spy novelist and the first female head of MI5
Pauline Cushman
Though trained as an actress, Major Pauline Cushman’s legacy is her service as a spy for the Union during the Civil War.
Florence Finch
Florence Finch aided United States military intelligence and the Philippine resistance movement during World War II. She provided supplies to prisoners of war (POWs) in Manila when the Japanese occupied the island, and she survived arrest and interrogation.
Wendy Noble
Deputy Director, National Security Agency (US)
Emily Anderson
Irish academic, code breaker, musicologist and translator
Mary Richards Bowser
Mary Richards Bowser was born into slavery and later became a missionary to Liberia, a Union spy in the Confederate White House during the American Civil War (1861–1865), and a teacher at freedmen’s schools.
Antonia Ford
Antonia Ford was a Confederate spy during the American Civil War (1861–1865), credited with providing the military information gathered from her Fairfax Court House home during the First Battle of Manassas (1861) and in the two years following.
Suzanne Vallon
During WWII, Suzanne Vallon fled France after her Resistance activity was discovered and ended up in North Africa on active duty. She also accompanied Allied troops as they went north after being freed from Germany.