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Travel Bug Dog Tag EyeSpy Margaretha Zelle

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Released:
Thursday, August 7, 2003
Origin:
France
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Take a photo of me with the Mata Hari statue in Leeuwarden, the Netherlands along with a copy of the local newspaper clearly showing the date.



About This Item

NATIONAL SECURITY INFORMATION
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* TOP SECRET *
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EYES ONLY COPY ONE OF ONE.
BRIEFING DOCUMENT:
OPERATION MARGARETHA ZELLE
1 FEBRUARY, 2004
WARNING: This is a TOP SECRET - EYES ONLY document containing
compartmentalized information essential to the national security.
EYES ONLY ACCESS to the material herein
is strictly limited to those possessing EyeSpy clearance
level. Reproduction in any form or the taking of written or
mechanically transcribed notes is strictly forbidden.

Born in Holland August 7, 1876 as Margaretha Gertrud Zelle. This young dutch girl was to become Mata Hari. The Oxford English Dictionary describes her as the "Prototype for a seductive spy."

She is the most renowned woman spy in history. Her path from her homeland in Netherlands to the bright lights of Paris is as fascinating as the events surrounding her arrest, trial, and subsequent execution.
Mata Hari
After a failed marriage, she went to Paris in 1905, assuming the name Mata Hari (Eye of the Dawn) and the persona of a Javanese princess. She made her debut as an erotic dancer performing to ecstatic audiences throughout Europe and Egypt.

Mata Hari's attractiveness, as well as her apparent willingness to appear almost nude on the stage, made her a huge hit. She cultivated numerous lovers, including many military officers.

Supposedly, while in The Hague in 1916 she was offered cash by a German consul for information obtained on her next visit to France. Indeed, Mata Hari admitted she had passed old, outdated information to a German intelligence officer when later interrogated.

Mata Hari herself claimed she had been paid to act as a French spy in Belgium (then occupied by German forces), although she had neglected to inform her French spymasters of her prior arrangement with the German consul. British intelligence picked up details of Mata Hari's arrangements with the German consul and passed these to their French counterparts.

She was arrested by the French on February 13, 1917 in Paris. She was tried by a closed court-martial, found guilty, and executed by a squad on October 15, 1917. Refusing a blindfold she blew a kiss to the 12-man firing squad.

Her remains were taken to a Paris hospital, for dissection. Mata Hari's head was removed and for many years kept in Paris's museum of anatomy. In a bizarre twist, researchers were baffled to discover it had gone missing with no leads on its whereabouts.  The museum, thought to be the only one of its kind left in the world, is located at 45 Rue des Saint-Pères, 6th Arrondissement, Paris.


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Discovered It 6/11/2024 schwartz-hansen discovered it   Visit Log

Coincidentally seen on the home page of the TB while searching for another TB
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Discovered It 12/28/2017 TomTom6769 discovered it   Visit Log

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Discovered It 7/20/2017 ashberry discovered it   Visit Log

Thanks for discovery.

Mark Missing 2/1/2017 Geocaching HQ marked it as missing   Visit Log

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Dropped Off 5/11/2012 Geocaching HQ placed it in GPS Adventures Maze Event - Ontario Science Centre Ontario, Canada   Visit Log
Retrieve It from a Cache 5/11/2012 Geocaching HQ retrieved it from GPS Adventures Maze Exhibit - Boonshoft Museum Ohio   Visit Log

Moving to GPS Adventures Maze Exhibit Canada

Dropped Off 5/11/2012 Geocaching HQ placed it in GPS Adventures Maze Exhibit - Boonshoft Museum Ohio - 369.06 miles  Visit Log
Retrieve It from a Cache 5/10/2012 Geocaching HQ retrieved it from GPS Adventures Exhibit - Ontario Science Centre Ontario, Canada   Visit Log

Moving to next GPS Adventures Maze location.

Discovered It 12/30/2011 tiggrrr discovered it   Visit Log

spotted at OSC Gps Adventure Exhibit...hard one to get! neat find :)

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