The liberation of Marguerite Harrison : America's first female foreign intelligence agent / Elizabeth Atwood.

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Atwood, Elizabeth Ann [author.]

Material type: Text

TextPublisher: Annapolis, Maryland : Naval Institute Press, [2020]Description: 1 online resourceContent type:

text

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computer

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online resource

ISBN:

9781682475300
1682475301
9781682475300

Other title:

America's first female foreign intelligence agent

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Additional physical formats: Print version:: The liberation of Marguerite HarrisonDDC classification:

327.12730092 B 23

LOC classification:

UB271.U5

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Contents:

Fond of Adventure -- Fit for a King -- Bonds of Matrimony -- Out on a Limb -- In the Web -- Agent B -- Into Russia -- Double Trouble -- Through Difficulties to the Stars -- "A Lady with a Mysterious Past" -- "A Very Clever Womaan" -- Return to Russia -- Desert Drama -- Ebb Tide.

Summary: "In September 1918, World War I was nearing its end when Marguerite E. Harrison, a thirty-nine-year-old Baltimore socialite, wrote to the head of the U.S. Army's Military Intelligence Division asking for a job. The director asked for clarification. Did she mean a clerical position? No, she told him. She wanted to be a spy. Harrison, a member of a prominent Baltimore family, usually got her way. She had founded a school for sick children and wangled her way onto the staff of the Baltimore Sun. Fluent in four languages and knowledgeable of Europe, she was confident she could gather information for the U.S. government. The MID director agreed to hire her, and Marguerite Harrison became America's first female foreign intelligence officer."-- Provided by publisher.

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"In September 1918, World War I was nearing its end when Marguerite E. Harrison, a thirty-nine-year-old Baltimore socialite, wrote to the head of the U.S. Army's Military Intelligence Division asking for a job. The director asked for clarification. Did she mean a clerical position? No, she told him. She wanted to be a spy. Harrison, a member of a prominent Baltimore family, usually got her way. She had founded a school for sick children and wangled her way onto the staff of the Baltimore Sun. Fluent in four languages and knowledgeable of Europe, she was confident she could gather information for the U.S. government. The MID director agreed to hire her, and Marguerite Harrison became America's first female foreign intelligence officer."-- Provided by publisher.

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