Agent 355: WHO WAS SHE

She “hath been ever serviceable to this correspondence” and could “outwit them all.”*

I wrote a little bit about my French Resistance reading of Countess Maria Krystyna Janina Skarbek, last summer here, if you’re into that sort of thing.

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2016 already heavy into spy craft: I just finished Kilmeade and Yaeger‘s George Washington’s Secret Six and can’t wait for more! So good! Historical non fiction spy craft does not get enough air time-as those words come into my mind, they make all the sense.

• Brian Kilmeade & Don Yeager, George Washington’s Secret Six: The Spy Ring that Saved the American Revolution
• Elizabeth Khan Kaplan, Fact And Fiction In Brian Kilmeade’s ‘Secret Six’ (Ms. Khan of Three Village Historical Society in Setauket, NY, she curated their exhibit “Spies! How A Group of Long Island Patriots Helped General Washington Win the Revolution.”*) (She knows her stuff) (!!!)
• Culper Ring stuff all over the place-here’s a link head start (do go see G Dub’s biters!):
  • Washington’s correspondence with the spy ring (!!!!) Library of Congress
  • Culper Spy Ring, History Channel (Image) (image-PBS *)
  • Turn, AMC (deeply, madly, truly love this show) (theme)
  • HMS Jersey
  • The Culper Code Book
  • Maggie MacLean, Female Spy in the American Revolution
  • 355 (Clandestine Women: The Untold Stories of Women in Espionage, Curated by espionage historian Linda McCarthy, 2002)
    • Linda McCarthy, Spies, Pop Flies, and French Fries : Stories I Told My Favorite Visitors to the CIA Exhibit Center
  • Heather Frey Blanton, Agent 355–Her Name Might be a Mystery, But is Her Identity Really Still a Secret?’
  • David W. Jacobs: Who Was Agent 355?
• Ali Soufan, The Black Banners: The Inside Story of 9/11 and the War Against al-Qaeda (Ali is the coolest guy in town, in my book)
• Raynham Hall Museum, (HistoryHistory)
• Mount Vernon Museum, The Donald W. Reynolds Museum and Education Center

XO,

H