7 Most Famous Female Secret Agent in the World - A state secret agent in the world in the case of James Bond films could not deny, even smelling living with the local community. But, female secret agent might be more sexy look.
List of the most famous female secret agent in the world.
1. Mata Hari
The real name is Margaretha Geertruida Zelle, arrived in Paris as a widow and began to act as a stripper best ever. She became increasingly popular prostitute in the government and military. When World War I broke out, the French spy suspect activities to Germany, though he may also be doing it for the French. Although his defense that he was a double agent loyal to the French, they were arrested in 1917 and executed 8 months later.
2. Nancy Wake
Nancy Wake worked as a journalist in France when World War II broke out. She did not waste his time voluntarily sign up to be a courier for the French Resistance, and shortly after that, Wake set up a spy network is very extensive and effective so that the Gestapo put a price on his head worth millions of dollars. His expertise in espionage only by her physical skills, he was accused of killing a German soldier with his bare hands. After the war, no less than five countries with the highest civilian award honor, making it among the spy's most respected women during World War II.
3. Krystyna Skarbek
Krystyna Skarbek intelligence unconventional for six years as an agent for the Britain's Special Operations Executive (SOE) made him one of the spies of World War II's most successful, having been paralyzed various missions in Poland, Hungary, France, and Egypt. She gained lasting fame when he saved the lives of two SOE agents to be executed by the Gestapo by passing himself as the nephew of one of the members of the British High Command. After the war, Skarbek found himself abandoned by both her home country (under Soviet occupation) and the former organization. Already poverty stricken, also was killed in 1952 by a man she had rejected his love in London.
4. Virginia Hall
As an agent of Britain's Special Operations Executive, Virginia Hall has a mission to support the French Resistance to get a reputation as someone who could even avoid the Nazi siege very tight. In 1944, he fled to Spain on foot and joined the Office of Strategic Services of America before returning to France to train the Resistance forces, set up safe houses and collect the secrets of German military intelligence is invaluable. one of the astonishing things that turned out to perform its mission, Hall uses fake wooden leg! Where She has been using it since the 1930s.
5. Violette Szabo
Courage, beauty, and a tragic short life Violette Szabo made him a legend. Even inspiration one Xbox 360 game (Velvet Assassin). As a secret agent in the Special Operations Executive English, one of the mission is to oversee the movement of sabotaging France at the time. Not Long after the outbreak of World War II, Szabo was captured by German soldiers to spend all the ammunition that he got through the gunfire occurred. Once captured, brought to the Ravensbruck Szabo (concentration camp). In 1945, Szabo was executed in a relatively young age, ie 23 years.
6. Lona Cohen
Lona Cohen is a member of the Communist Party who served as a courier for Theodore Hall, a Manhattan Project physicist (Atom Bomb Project Amik) who leaked atomic secrets to the Soviet Union. After the war, she and her husband moved to London and make it a tool to destroy the British naval forces through the Portland Spy Ring (Soviet spies operating in the UK). Did not last long because the British know who Cohen and arrested him. Which was originally sentenced to eight years to 20 years in prison could not happen because the British spy exchange offers are sent to the Soviet Union. Upon his return to the Soviet Union, Cohen received with joy and faithful patriot considered, including officials honored with the Soviet Union by giving the award the Congressional Medal of Honor.
7. Elizabeth Bentley
Spies Communist Party USA, when in fact he was working for the Soviet secret police, which actually does not benefit him as a secret agent. However, during World War II, he was one of the Soviet spy the most successful in the United States, by providing information about the Nazis by the Soviet military. After the death of his lover and the Soviet breakup, he build a spy network is much larger than before, although not able to last long because he defected and gave the names to the FBI about 150 Soviet spies, including dozens of U.S. government employees.
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