Soon, however, Hallowes and her supervisor Peter Churchill were captured by the Germans. In the same year, she was sent to Nazi-occupied France to work with the French. She was called in by the Special Forces of the First Aid Nursing Yeomanry (FANY) and trained as an SOE agent. In 1942, she sent a postcard offering her help in war efforts to the wrong government office. Odette Hallowes became an SOE agent by accident. But according to some, he might have faked his death to start a new life under a new name as his body was never found. He was killed in a plane crash in Laos in 1962. He was arrested in 1946 but was acquitted two years later. Whether Dericourt was that double agent remains unclear to this day. However, when several British agents and French resistance fighters were arrested by the Gestapo, the SOE began to suspect that it had been infiltrated by a double agent. In 1942, he fled from occupied France to Britain and joined the Special Operations Executive (SOE), which sent him back to France to arrange secret aircraft landings and transportation of the SOE agents. Henri Dericourtīorn in 1909, the French pilot Henri Dericourt is suspected of having been a World War II double agent. Popov died in his home in France in 1981, aged 68. However, his warning wasn't forwarded because Edgar Hoover, who was at the time the FBI Director, didn't trust him. But besides his playboy lifestyle and daring missions, Popov is also famous for warning the FBI about the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor as early as August 1941. His life was very similar to that of James Bond, and according to many, it was Popov who was the real-life inspiration for the most famous fictional spy. Dušan Popovĭušan Popov was a Serbian-born double agent who worked for the MI6 during World War II. In 2007, he was honored with the Order of Friendship by Vladimir Putin. Five years later, however, he escaped and fled to Moscow, where he has lived ever since. In 1961, Blake's espionage activities were exposed, and he was sentenced to 42 years in prison. He gave details of over 40 MI6 agents to the Soviets, which virtually destroyed the MI6 network in Eastern Europe. Following his release in 1953, Blake returned to Britain as a hero but also as a double agent. In the meantime, he became a communist and switched sides. In 1950, he was sent to Seoul as a British agent but was soon captured by North Korean troops and held captive for three years. George Blakeīorn in the Netherlands in 1922, George Blake began his spying career during World War II. She died after being stabbed by a rejected admirer in 1952. Over the following years, Skarbek also undertook several daring intelligence missions in France and was later decorated for her services by France and Britain. She bit her tongue for it to bleed and coughed hard by which she managed to convince the Germans that she was suffering from tuberculosis.
In 1941, Skarbek was arrested by the Gestapo but was soon released. In 1940, she went to Hungary as a British agent, but she also skied into Poland several times to help Polish resistance fighters escape the country. Krystyna Skarbek (also known as Christine Granville)īorn in Poland in 1908, Krystyna Skarbek (also known as Christine Granville) was the inspiration for the character Eva Green in Casino Royale. He was captured by the Soviets and executed in the same year. In 1925, he went back to Russia to help overthrow the Soviet regime, but this time, he went out of luck. The plot had failed, but Reilly spectacularly escaped. He is attributed with some of the most daring undertakings of which is most famous his involvement in the plot to assassinate the Soviet leader Lenin. Just like his literary counterpart, Reilly was a womanizer (some also dubbed him as the "Gentleman Spy") and lived an extravagant lifestyle. Nicknamed the "Ace of Spies," Reilly is believed to have spied for as many as four nations. Sidney Reilly, born as Sigmund Georgievich Rosenblum in Russia in 1873, is said to inspire Ian Fleming for his character James Bond. Below is a list of 10 most daring and dangerous spies.
Many real-life spies are just as fascinating as their fictional counterparts. But can such daring and dangerous spies exist in real life? The answer is a big yes. We have seen them in the movies, and we have read about them in books.
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