A Spy Called Cynthia: And a Life in Intelligence

"Ashamed? Not in the least: my superiors told me that the results of my work saved thousands...
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A Spy Called Cynthia: And a Life in Intelligence by Anonymous

A Spy Called Cynthia: And a Life in Intelligence

¥5,560

A Spy Called Cynthia: And a Life in Intelligence

¥5,560
Author: Anonymous
Format: Hardcover
Language: English

"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counterparts in the CIA and French intelligence, was entrusted by him to a junior colleague on the basis that it was not to be published until everyone in it was dead.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 world of intelligence and one of its greatest practitioners, Cynthia.



Author: Anonymous
Publisher: Biteback Publishing
Published: 04/12/2022
Pages: 144
Binding Type: Hardcover
Weight: 0.65lbs
Size: 8.60h x 5.30w x 0.80d
ISBN: 9781785907128

About the Author
Anonymous: - Anonymous worked in several high-level diplomatic roles for the British government throughout the second half of the twentieth century where he was in close cooperation with the security agencies. The manuscript of A Spy Called Cynthia was given to him by a senior colleague, friend and mentor with the explicit instruction that it not be published until the latter's death. With its publication he is fulfilling that promise.

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