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A Spy Called Cynthia: And a Life in…
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A Spy Called Cynthia: And a Life in Intelligence (utgåvan 2022)

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"Ashamed? Not in the least: my superiors told me that the results of my work saved thousands of British and American lives. It involved situations from which 'respectable' women draw back - but mine was total commitment. Wars are not won by respectable methods."Elizabeth Thorpe, code-named Cynthia, was a glamorous American recruited by MI6 to obtain intelligence from the Polish Foreign Ministry, then from the Italian and Vichy French Embassies in Washington. Her method was to seduce whatever targets could provide her with vital intelligence, a practice in which she hardly ever failed, enabling her to secure first the Italian then the Vichy French naval codes. In the landings in North Africa, she was credited with having saved the lives of many Allied soldiers.This unique account by a British spymaster of his relationship with her, of his subsequent involvement with Philby and the Cambridge spies and dealings with his counterparts in the CIA and French intelligence, was entrusted by him to a junior colleague on the basis that it was not to be published until everyone in it was dead. Necessarily anonymous and impossible fully to verify, most of it undoubtedly did happen and is part of the historical record, providing a special insight into the worldof intelligence and one of its greatest practitioners, Cynthia.… (mer)
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Titel:A Spy Called Cynthia: And a Life in Intelligence
Författare:Anonymous (Författare)
Info:Biteback Publishing (2022), 144 pages
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"Ashamed? Not in the least: my superiors told me that the results of my work saved thousands of British and American lives. It involved situations from which 'respectable' women draw back - but mine was total commitment. Wars are not won by respectable methods."Elizabeth Thorpe, code-named Cynthia, was a glamorous American recruited by MI6 to obtain intelligence from the Polish Foreign Ministry, then from the Italian and Vichy French Embassies in Washington. Her method was to seduce whatever targets could provide her with vital intelligence, a practice in which she hardly ever failed, enabling her to secure first the Italian then the Vichy French naval codes. In the landings in North Africa, she was credited with having saved the lives of many Allied soldiers.This unique account by a British spymaster of his relationship with her, of his subsequent involvement with Philby and the Cambridge spies and dealings with his counterparts in the CIA and French intelligence, was entrusted by him to a junior colleague on the basis that it was not to be published until everyone in it was dead. Necessarily anonymous and impossible fully to verify, most of it undoubtedly did happen and is part of the historical record, providing a special insight into the worldof intelligence and one of its greatest practitioners, Cynthia.

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