Stories of Spies
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This e-book depicts the colourful true story of a few real world spies, whose espionage created sensation all over the world. These include both male and female spies of variegated characters and motivations.
Ratan Lal Basu
ADDRESS: KOLKATAPh. D. in EconomicsProfession: Retired from 1st January, 2009 from the post of Reader in Economics and Teacher-in-Charge, Bhairab Ganguly College, Kolkata, India
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Stories of Spies - Ratan Lal Basu
Stories of Spies
By Ratan Lal Basu
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Contents
Chapter-1
Chapter-2
Chapter-3
Chapter-4
The Author
Chapter-1
Introduction
Espionage has been an integral part of statecraft and politics from time immemorial. In ancient India, appointment of spies was very common and the espionage was raised to a scientific level in the Arthsastra of Kautilya composed around 300 B. C. Notwithstanding application of most sophisticated technological in espionage mechanism, and change in methods of espionage, the performance of no modern espionage agencies (like MOSSAD, ISI, KGB, CIA, MI6 etc.) could have achieved the level of perfection of Kautilya’s espionage mechanism. (I shall give the detail of the secrets of Arthsastra espionage in my e-book Espionage in Kautilya’s Arthasastra
).
Ever since its inception, individual spies have played a crucial role in espionage. Their and activities surpass fictions and thrillers. Use of sex-power of females has also been a crucial part of espionage, and literary compositions from mythological texts to modern spy-novels, are replete with nerve chilling stories of female spies.
In this book I have depicted the story of a few interesting spies – both male and females of variegated characters and intensions.
Mata Hari, the Exotic Dancer
The episode of Mata Hari is tragic. She was falsely accused of espionage and executed. Mata Hari (real name Margaretha Geertruida M'greet
Zelle McLeod) was born in Leeuwarden, Friesland, Netherlands on 7th August 1876. Actually Mata Hari was her stage name. Her father was Adam Zelle. She had three brothers. Her father owned a hat shop, made successful investments in the oil industry, and became affluent enough to give Margaretha a lavish early childhood that included exclusive schools until she was 13.
After her mother’s death her father remarried and Margaretha moved to live with her godfather, Mr. Visser, in Sneek and later on, after an incident of her school headmaster flirting with her, she left for Hague to live in her uncle’s home.
Margaretha married Rudolf, the Dutch Colonial Army Captain in Amsterdam on 11th July 1895. The marriage enabled her to move into the Dutch upper class and her finances were placed on a sound footing. The couple started living in Indonesia. Torture of the alcoholic husband compelled her to abandon him temporarily. She then joined a local dance company and assumed the stage name ‘Mata Hari’ (meaning ‘eye for the day’, i.e., the sun) in 1897.
Margaretha returned to her husband at his request but once again her family life was torturous and pathetic. Both of her children died of syphilis contacted from their father. She was ultimately compelled to divorce her husband in 1907.
Long before that she had left her husband and moved to Paris in 1903 where, after trying various professions she took to dancing and from the very first night of her debut on 13th March 1905, she could win the hearts of the spectators by her provocative dance, brazen sexual postures and nudity. She concocted the story that she was a Javanese Princess of Hindu descent brought up in the milieu of Hindu dance tradition since very childhood and her dancing style was derived from ancient Hindu exotic dances. This was believed by everyone as at that time Parisians were unfamiliar with Hindu art and culture. She then became the mistress of the industrialist Émile Étienne Guimet, who had founded the dance performance club