Women spies in WW2.....

[george]

Hello everyone!!!!!

I'm looking for a register or something that list names of women spies during WW2. Exist something like that?

I´ll very appreciate any help in this matter.

Best regards, George

[marilyn morning]

Hello George

Have you tried contacting Scotlandyard or the CIA? Sorry just being funny...
Someone else will be along shortly, that may be able to help.

Regards
Marilyn

[ASGROOMBRIDGE]

I am looking for a list of women that to coin a phrase "Done War Work", my mother worked in a munitions factory and I cannot find any information on it. were records kept and if so how can we get our hands on it.

Audrey

[Malcolm]

As a boy I knew my mother to be a spy but I’m sure you won’t find her name or any others in a catalogue. Although she doubled as a nurse she was really a “sleeper” inside the Royal Mint.
My discovery came to light when we were tucking into a meal at the dinner table. My mum left the table as the hated man from the allotments entered the kitchen door. His every appearance was a portent of something disgusting like cabbage, for tea tomorrow. I could hear their plotting and comments such as, “letting things cool down” and “mint spies” were clearly audible.
This informed me that my own mother was passing on details of new currency designs to foreign agents. At the launch of a new banknote the bad people would flood the world with phoney money, destroy the economy, capitalism and the western world as we knew it. Soon my pocket money would be worthless.
The man in the kitchen was my mum’s “controller” and as he passed on his instructions he whipped out from beneath his mucky brown coat some radio antennae cunningly disguised as three sticks of rhubarb. I wasn’t fooled for a moment. He then placed them strategically in a jug on the window sill and slipped away, back up the garden path. Something must be done. I must save the nation
As mother returned to the dining table I realised that the nation would have wait a little while longer for its next hero as she called out, “Who would like custard on their mince pie and who would prefer cream”. I opted for the custard.

[StewL]

Hello George

Have a look at this site for SOE it may be of some help

http://www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/2WWsoe.htm

Although I dont know if it lists them all

Or you could try googling Special Operations Executive

[george]

Hi friends!!!!!

Thanks a lot for your comment.

Malcolm... The spy work may be disgusting or not, depend on the place, the personal story, the focus, and so on. I'm looking for those that spied for German and/or UK in Patagonia controlling The Strait of Magellan during the WW2.

Some spies were heroes in several senses for their motherlands. Not all them actuated against their adoptive countries.

Regards, George

[Malcolm]

Hello Audrey
I don’t know how you would find out about the people who worked in munitions other than the census returns but I think the people best placed to tell where all the factories were are the German Luftwaffe. They will have maps complete with target rings. Each bullseye marks the biggest bang. On a more serious note I’m told that I had a great aunt who lost a finger through a small explosion whilst working with munitions. Apparently most of the workers in such places were women.
Stewie, it’s hard to believe that anyone controlled the Magellan Straits other than the Chileans themselves. That’s not to say that the area wasn’t teaming with spies.
Although most of South America was officially neutral, Chile was unofficially sympathetic with the Allied Cause I’m told. You might know this but during the late nineteenth century a large number of Welsh people migrated to Patagonia to farm sheep, build railways etc. Some moved on to Australia but many remained and there exists a thread of Welsh culture running through Patagonian society today.
I’m assuming that under these circumstances there were a lot of people in the area who were on our side. Such people could move about without bringing attention to themselves. This may be my imagination running riot but such people would have made perfect spies. I can see it now, Diego JuanGarcia aka Daffyd Jones with his radio antenna disguised as a leek passing information to a British submarine somewhere off Tierra del Fuego…… in Gaelic
On a more serious note I happen to know one of many people who escaped General Pinochet’s regime in Chile. He knows someone else and so on, who gave me this e-mail address, coronato@cenpat.edu.ar. This puts you in touch with the Patagonian Welsh people who I suspect are best placed to handle your enquiry. It may come to nothing but it’s worth a try.
I hope it helps you.

[Malcolm]

.....I meant George, not Stewie. Hello to both anyway

[george]

Hello Malcolm

Thanks for your comments.

I´ll follow my search.

Regards, George