The Liberation of Marguerite Harrison
America's First Female Foreign Intelligence Agent
Marguerite Harrison had talked herself out of tight situations before, and so she feigned outrage at her arrest and detention in Chita . She argued that it was not her fault the country had fallen to Soviet Russia. Under interrogation by a GPU official named Bogdonov, Marguerite recounted her trip through Asia and insisted she …
Marguerite hid in the brothel for two days until she and her Cossack companion could catch the train to Chita.. She did not know whether the Communist uprising had been confined to Verkhne-Udinsk or had swept through the entire Far Eastern Republic. Her worries grew when the next night a suspicious-looking man knocked at her …
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Marguerite made the dubious assertion that her reason for traveling to Urga was to investigate Bolshevik claims that they were not interfering in Mongolia, despite its strategic importance in the region. She journeyed to the Chinese city of Kalgan, where she found few foreigners aside from the British and American consuls and representatives of the …
The Liberation of Marguerite Harrison 