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Did a love affair spark Harrison’s espionage career?

Albert Ritchie Marguerite Harrison struggled to explain her decision to become a spy. She later recalled she was seized with restlessness and a desire to witness events unfolding in Europe at the end of World War I. Some historians have described her as a distraught widow who joined the intelligence service to forget her grief. …

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  • Ingleside
    Marguerite Harrison's childhood home, Ingleside, in Catonsville, Md. Photo courtesy of Catonsville Public Library.
  • Marguerite Harrison with husband, Tom, and son, Tommy. Photo courtesy of Nancy Harrison.
  • Tommy Harrison at Gilman. Photo courtesy of Gilman School.
  • Maryand Gov. Albert Ritchie, Marguerite Harrison's brother-in-law.
  • Marguerite Harrison on the Polish border preparing to enter Russia. Photo courtesy of Baltimore Sun.
  • Solomon Mogilievsky, Harrison's Russian handler.
  • Merian Cooper. Photo courtesy of Brigham Young University.
  • The guesthouse where Marguerite stayed while in Russia.
  • Lubyanka Prison, circa. 1916.
  • British journalist Stan Harding.
  • Marguerite Harrison in the Middle East, circa 1924.
  • Marguerite Harrison with Bakhtiari tribe, circa 1924.
  • Marguerite Harrison in Grass.
  • Arthur Blake, Marguerite Harrison's second husband.
  • Marguerite Harrison, 1960. Photo courtesy of the Society of Woman Geographers.