Agent FiFi Encryption versus Lipstick-No Contest!

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Agent FiFi Encryption versus Lipstick-No Contest!

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Post by Andy H » 18 Sep 2014, 15:25

Hi

Hope its of some interest:-
It was a late March day when notice arrived that Fifi’s services would be required. She would have two days to prepare — two days to travel from her London apartment to Liverpool, two days to memorize the physical details of her “prey.” His name was Quinaux. He was 28. Black hair. Brown eyes. Dimpled chin. He would be waiting at the State Cafe. And she was to charm every secret she could out of him.

Of course, Quinaux didn’t know this. He was training to be a British spy and, according to a letters dated March 22, 1943, he thought his assignment was to meet a “tall fat man [who] is a Belgian Sergeant.” But his real assignment was to withstand the allure of Fifi, a blond and beautiful 23-year-old British provocateur whose profession was to beguile young recruits and coax forth their secrets. It was a test.

There has long been myth of a World War II secret agent, code-named “Fifi.” Called “one of the expert liars of the world,” the stories held that she was tall and blond and stunning — fluent in multiple European languages and equipped with an acerbic wit and keen intuition. Most dismissed the stories, however, as too tall. This wasn’t the movies.

But those myths were substantiated Wednesday in a trove of documents released by the United Kingdom’s National Archives — more than 240 pages of handwritten notes, telegrams and detailed reports that are rich with intrigue, seduction and World War II espionage. Taken together, they shed greater light on a period that marked the beginning of modern espionage and portray Fifi as a supremely talented, though vulnerable, figure. A refugee of the war, she could enchant the most hard-bitten recruits — but not her superiors, who routinely rejected her pleas for more salary.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/news/morn ... ?tid=hp_mm

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Re: Agent FiFi Encryption versus Lipstick-No Contest!

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Post by steve248 » 19 Sep 2014, 15:46

This particular file from SOE (Special Operations Executive) is available from UK National Archives for 3.30 English pounds/4.05 Euros/5.30 US dollars - all 242 pages - following this link

http://discovery.nationalarchives.gov.u ... /C14209643


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