VAMPING IN SPYCRAFT

Evening Post, Volume CVIII, Issue 127, 25 November 1929, Page 10

VAMPING IN SPYCRAFT

(Heceii^i 24ffc November, 2 p.m.)' LONDON, 23rd November. The Baroness. Carla Jenssen, of Dan. ish origin, interviewed in- Paris, describes her career as a secret agent,outstanding in the European spy service. Shell only twenty-seven and' beautiful. Her method was to plant sleep-giving kisses and then go through, a man'g blggfige. She said she would never forget her first attempt on a, man who waß sent to Europe by a revolutionary committee to arrange a secret purehas* of arms. She traced hint to a, Belgian seaside resort, spread some Indian narcotic on her 'lips, and1 used a wafer to neutralise the effects^ in case she swallowed some of the-drug* She then vamped and kissed.him. Hei soon, became drowsy, whereupon sha | commenced to go through his baggage.The handsome Oriental suddenly awoke and cried out, "You darned spy," and presented a revolver and shot her ii£ the fleshy part of the right calf. She) had the presence of mind to hit him oa the head with a hunting crop. She escaped with confederates in a motor- | car with the man's papers. She fainted. She had bungled the job, but she had prevented a big contraband shipment of arms which might have started S revolt. After that she never trusted a single kiss to put a man asleep.