Few people realise (says Household Words) what an important part women play in the Secret Service Departments. In every city in the world the heads of the Secret Service have their agents, and many of them are of the feminine sex. Russia, France, Austria, and Spain are perhaps the countries that employ the most women " agents" (as they are called), but England owes some of the most important information she possesses to women. These Secret Service spies take all guises. Some live among the lower class and gain from the soldiers and workmen information about fortifications, etc. Others gain admittance as nurses or governesses into the best families, and others are armed with indisputable credentials, and move in the best society..
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New Zealand Herald, Volume XXXIX, Issue 12072, 16 September 1902, Page 5
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