The Liberation of Marguerite Harrison
America's First Female Foreign Intelligence Agent
On May 3, 1947, Arthur Blake died suddenly in California, never realizing his dream of becoming a motion picture star. Marguerite moved back to Baltimore the following year and rented an apartment on Charles Street to be near Tommy, who also had returned to the city after his divorce and remarriage. Marguerite she still traveled—almost …
Throughout the 1930s and 1940s Marguerite continued to give speeches about her travels. According to reports she made with the Society of Woman Geographers, she gave over one hundred lectures a year to clubs and schools. She also broadcast radio shows for the United Services Organization, or USO, during World War II.24 The lectures again …
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Marguerite Harrison returned to the United States in the fall of 1925 and quietly married Arthur Blake in New Orleans in early 1926. The couple spent six months in Morocco for their honeymoon, although Marguerite didn’t completely give up her spy work. While in Morocco she passed along her observations on the Wahhabi Muslim movements …
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Harrison left New York in July 1925 and traveled through Paris before heading to Constantinople. This time she had no trouble getting the necessary permits to proceed to Angora, which she found greatly improved with electricity and new government buildings. The Foreign Office readily gave her permission to tour the farm communities where Turks from …
The Liberation of Marguerite Harrison 