The Liberation of Marguerite Harrison
America's First Female Foreign Intelligence Agent
Merican Cooper, Ernest Schoedsack and Marguerite Harrison were thrilled with the prospect of reaching the Bakhtiari, but it was already mid-March, and they hadn’t much time because soon the tribe would be setting out on its journey. A British political officer found the Americans a car to take them to Shushtar, where the Bakhtiari princes were camped. There, they met a young …
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Marguerite Harrison, Merian Cooper, and Ernest Schoedsack kept the Middle East mission secret their entire lives. They wrote books and articles, and they gave lectures and interviews about the expedition. But they never revealed that while documenting the epic journey of a Persian tribe’s search for pasture, they were gathering intelligence for the U.S. Army. …
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The Liberation of Marguerite Harrison 