The Liberation of Marguerite Harrison
America's First Female Foreign Intelligence Agent
Stan Harding While working in Berlin, Marguerite Harrison encountered another woman journalist who would have a profound impact on Harrison’s work and reputation. The woman was Stan Harding. She was every bit as adventurous and ambitious as Marguerite, and she would prove to be a formidable enemy. Harding had been born to a well-to-do family …
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Even while working as a spy for the U.S. Army, Marguerite Harrison continued to write dispatches for the Baltimore Sun throughout the spring of 1919. She described living on rations and witnessing the opening session of the Weimar Assembly. But her most thrilling and vivid articles were her accounts of fighting in the streets of …
Alexanderplatz with the downed overhead lines of the tram, 8.3.1919 © Staatliche Museen zu Berlin, Art Library - Photothek Willy Römer / Willy Römer Only a couple of Marguerite Harrison’s German reports have survived, but they give some indication of how she went about collecting information for the Military Intelligence Division. Fluent in German, Marguerite …
Hotel Bristol, circa 1910. Marguerite Harrison boarded a train crowded with soldiers and workers and head to Berlin. Along the way, she heard that fighting had erupted in the German capital between the government troops and the Communist-backed Spartacists, and she hurried toward the action. It was night when she arrived at the train station …
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The Liberation of Marguerite Harrison 