WOMEN IN INTELLIGENCE

World War II

Other Countries

Included here:

1. French Resistance

2. Other Resistance

3. Far East & Pacific Area

1. French Resistance

Aubrac, Lucie. Tr., Konrad Biever and Betsy Wing. Outwitting the Gestapo. Lincoln, NE: University of Nebraska Press, 1993. [pb] 1994.

Surveillant 3.2/3: "Recreates Aubrac's last 9 months in Vichy France (1943-44), as she works with the Resistance.... First published in France in 1984 and basis for the French film Boulevard des hirondelles. This book was selected for the History Book Club and the Book of the Month Club. Many reviewers have deemed the translation so good, it reads as if it had been written in English."

Braddon, Russell. The White Mouse. New York: Norton, 1957.

Nancy Wake-Fiocca ("Andreé") was an Australian national who was living in Marseilles when France fell in June 1940. She joined the Resistance and had to flee France when the escape organization with which she was working was rolled up in March 1943. She parachuted back into France as an SOE liaison with the Maquis in March 1944. Cookridge, Inside SOE, p. 355. See also Nancy Wake, The White Mouse. (Melbourne: Macmillan, 1985).

Chevrillon, Claire. Code Name Christiane Clouet: A Woman in the French Resistance. University Station, TX: Texas A&M Press, 1995.

According to Kruh, Cryptologia, 20.1, the author served in the Free Fench Intelligence Service, first, as a code clerk and, later, as head of the Code Service in Paris. She was arrested and imprisoned for four months in Paris' Fresnes prison.

Fourcade, Marie-Madeleine. Noah's Ark: A Memoir of Struggle and Resistance. London: Allen & Unwin, 1973. New York: Dutton, 1974.

Constantinides: "Noah's Ark is the memoir of the leader and principal agent of one of the great espionage networks of World War II.... [I]t was the only network to cover all of France and the only one of its kind headed by a woman.... This is the saga, poetic and moving in its presentation, of the network's life."

Ignatius, David. "After Five Decades, a Spy Tells Her Tale." Washington Post, 28 Dec. 1998, A1. [http://www.washingtonpost.com]

This is the story of Jeannie Rousseau (de Clarens) who was a member of Georges Lamarque's Resistance operation (with the code name "Amniarix"). She became "one of the most effective if unheralded spies of World War II. Her precise reports on the German's secret military plans, particularly the development of the V1 flying bombs and V2 rockets, helped persuade Prime Minister Winston Churchill to bomb the test site at Peenemunde....

"Her exploits later landed her in three concentration camps [Ravensbruck, Torgau, and Konigsberg] which she survived without ever disclosing the great secret she had stolen from the Germans."

See R. James Woolsey, Doyle Larson, and Linda Zall, "Honoring Two World War II Heroes: Prestigious Intelligence Rewards," Studies in Intelligence 38, no. 5 (1995), 27-36, for remarks at 27 October 1993 ceremony at CIA Headquarters honoring R.V. Jones and Jeannie de Clarens.

Katona, Edith Zukermanova, with Patrick Macnaghten. Codename Marianne: An Autobiography. London: Collins & Harvill, 1976. New York: McKay, 1976.

Constantinides suggests that this story of a Czech who served as an agent for French military intelligence against the Italians between 1938 and 1942 is of "little consequence."

King, Stella. "Jacqueline": Pioneer Heroine of the Resistance. London: Arms and Armour Press, 1990.

Surveillant 1.1: Yvonne Rudellat was the "first female field agent trained by ... [SOE] during WWII." She set up a resistance unit and sabotaged rail lines and trains. Rudellat was wounded and captured, sent to Ravensbruck and on to Bergen-Belsen where she died. The book "reads like a fast-paced spy novel."

Rossiter, Margaret. Women in the Resistance. New York: Praeger, 1991.

The stories include that of OSS officer Virginia Hall.

Wake, Nancy. The White Mouse. Melbourne: Macmillan, 1985.

Nancy Wake-Fiocca ("Andreé") was an Australian national who was living in Marseilles when France fell in June 1940. She joined the Resistance and had to flee France when the escape organization with which she was working was rolled up in March 1943. She parachuted back into France as an SOE liaison with the Maquis in March 1944. Cookridge, Inside SOE, p. 355. See also Russell Braddon, The White Mouse (New York: Norton, 1957).

Weitz, Margaret Collins. Sisters in the Resistance: The Women's War to Free France. New YorK: John Wiley, 1995.

Surveillant 4.2 describes this work as an scholarly, oral history that tells the story of women's role in resisting the Nazi occupation of France. The lives of 70 surviving participants are reviewed.

Woolsey, R. James, Doyle Larson [MAJGEN/USAF (Retired)], and Linda Zall. "Honoring Two World War II Heroes: Prestigious Intelligence Rewards." Studies in Intelligence 38, no. 5 (1995): 27-36.

Woolsey, Larson, and Zall remarks at 27 October 1993 ceremony at CIA Headquarters honoring R.V. Jones and Jeannie (Rousseau) de Clarens.

Young, George Gordon. The Cat With Two Faces: The Most Amazing Spy Story of the Second World War. New York: Coward-McCann, 1957. London: Putnam, 1957.

Constantinides: "The Cat" was Mathilde Carré, who as mistress of her Abwehr case officer, Hugo Bleicher, was involved in the destruction of the Inter-Allié Resistance network.

2. Other Resistance

Gardiner, Muriel. Code Name "Mary." New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 1983.

Wilcox: "Adventures in the WWII Austrian underground. Basis for 'Julia' in Pentimento."

McDevitt, Bette. "Teenage Resistance Heroine Tiny Mulder." World War II (Nov. 2003). [http://www.historynet.com/wwii/bltinymulder/]

"Young Tiny Mulder used her language skills, wits and a large dose of courage to keep Allied airmen shot down over Holland out of German hands."

Sutherland, Christine. Monica: Heroine of the Danish Resistance. New York: Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 1990.

Surveillant 1.2: This book is a biography of "Monica Massy-Beresford Wichfield, an Irish aristocrat, educated in England and Europe," who became "a leading member of the Danish Resistance." She was eventually "betrayed & sentenced to death."

Von Meding, Dorothee. Tr., Michael Balfour. Courageous Hearts: Women and the Anti-Hitler Plot of 1944. Oxford and Providence, RI: Berghahn, 1997.

According to Flynn, History 26.2, the author "presents the life stories of eleven women who were the wives or friends" of conspirators in the 20 July Hitler assassination plot. The book is based on the women's memories as recorded in television interviews.

3. Far East & Pacific Area

Howe, Russell Warren. The Hunt for "Tokyo Rose." Lanham, MD: Madison Books, 1990.

Surveillant 1.1: Howe presents a "highly readable reconstruction of the life of Iva Toguri, the California-born Nisei." The book includes "detailed references to the actual trial transcripts."

Murray, Mary. Hunted: A Coastwatcher's Story. San Francisco, CA: Tri- Ocean Books, 1967. [Petersen]

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