Ordered to seduce French captain and steal from him classified papers, Mata Hari, an exotic dancer and a spy, instead falls in love with him and blows the cover.

She was the daughter of a British lord and an Indian princess, she told suitors, and counted among her many lovers the crown prince of Germany. She was Indonesian, she told others, and had learned her ...

In the aftermath of Israel's "Operation Rising Lion" on June 13, attacking Iranian nuclear targets, there is a new name in the espionage world: Mossad's "Black Widow," Catherine Perez Shekede. The ...

Mata Hari is one of history's ultimate femme fatales. She gained fame for her seductive dancing, only to be executed by the French for being a double agent. These days, her name is a byword for ...

One hundred years have passed since a French firing squad executed Mata Hari on Oct. 15, 1917, on charges that she spied on France for the enemy Germans. Was she, in fact, engaged in espionage? Yes ...

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LEEUWARDEN, Netherlands (AP) -- A century ago on Sunday, an exotic dancer named Mata Hari was executed by a French firing squad, condemned as a sultry Dutch double agent who supposedly caused the ...

She was a seductress who was alleged to have used her beauty to snare the secrets of top Allied officers during the First World War. Dutch exotic dancer Mata Hari, who was enlisted to spy for France, ...

She refused a blindfold and by some accounts even smiled at her executioners. Margaretha Zelle, a.k.a. “Mata Hari,” an exotic dancer and convicted spy, met her end at age 41 at the hands of a firing ...