Dec. 2, 1918---The signing of the armistice treaty and a flu outbreak in Baltimore were temporary setbacks to Marguerite Harrison’s quest to become a spy. With the end of fighting in Europe, Marguerite feared she had lost her chance to become a spy. But Military Intelligence Division Director Marlborough Churchill had other ideas. He wanted …
“A highly cultured lady…”
A week after writing to Marlborough Churchill to express her interest in becoming an Army spy, Marguerite Harrison met Col. Walter Martin in the lobby of the Emerson Hotel in downtown Baltimore for an interview. She impressed Martin by speaking German so fluently that he wondered where she had learned it. She laughed off his …
Dear General Churchill…
Sept. 21, 1918-- World War I was nearing its end when Marguerite Harrison, a 39-year-old music and theater reviewer for the Baltimore Sun, wrote to Military Intelligence Division Director Marlborough Churchill asking for a job with the spy service. "Employment as a special foreign agent is the only work that would justify me in giving …
The Liberation of Marguerite Harrison 