Famous women spies !!

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Spying has been one profession that has over the ages always encouraged the fairer sex to join.

Here is a list of the femme fatales who have lived true to their clan name !!

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Roxana Saberi, was a US-Iranian journalist, who was put on trial before a revolutionary court on charges of spying for Iran's arch-foe the United States according to an official in 2009. US President Barack Obama on April 19, 2009 denied Saberi was a spy and demanded her release, after she was sentenced to eight years in prison for espionage.

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The most famous, and controversial, spy of World War One was Mata Hari - or Margaretha Geertruida Zelle McLeod - a Dutch born woman who portrayed herself as an exotic dancer. Many myths and legends have surrounded her past. She was a courtesan. However, she had invented an identity as an exotic dancer from India. She was shot by the French as a spy on October 15, 1917.

In 1931 a film loosely based on Mata Hari starred Greta Garbo and popularized her legend.

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She was Marie Monin, Germaine, Camille and even Diane. All the aliases point to Virginia Hall, an American spy during World War II.
Despite the fact that her leg had to be amputated from the knee down, she was dextrous in the clandestine work behind enemy lines.

Considered as perhaps the most dangerous of all allied spies by the Gestapo, the Germans even went on to give the nickname 'Artemis'.

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Austrian-born actress Hedy Lamarr, a Hollywood star from the 40's and 50's, is also rumored to have been a spy. She made a valuable contribution to the intelligence division by co-producing an anti-jamming device for torpedoes. She also devised a clever way of "frequency hopping" that prevented the interception of American military messages.

Ironically, she also starred in a flick called My favourite spy.

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Elizabeth Van Lew, Crazy Bet, as she was known, passed information during the Civil War. Elizabeth effectively used the Crazy Bet moniker to make people think she was mentally ill.

She would wear old clothes and bonnets and talk to herself. Because of this, most people thought that she was crazy.

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elle Boyd became the star attraction in social circles in Washington prior to the beginning of the Civil War.
In 1864, Confederate president Jefferson Davis asked Belle to carry letters for him to England. The Union Navy captured her ship, but the officer in charge fell in love with Belle and let her escape.

After the war, Boyd toured the United States as an actress under the stage name of La Belle Rebelle

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Sarah Emma Edmonds ran away from home as a teenager and in order to survive dressed as a man and called herself Frank Thompson.

In 1861, Frank (Sarah) enlisted in the Second Michigan Infantry and over the next two years not only fought in a number of Civil War battles, but also served as a spy for the Union Army. Solders in her unit called Frank "our woman" because of his feminine mannerisms and his extremely small boot size. However, none of her comrades ever figured out that Frank was really Sarah.

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Noor Inayat Khan or Nora Baker, was a British agent in World War II of Indian origin and the first female radio operator to be sent into occupied France to aid the French Resistance.

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