The FReeper Foxhole Profiles Amy Elizabeth Thorpe: WWII's Mata Hari -Dec. 26th, 2004

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[Professional Engineer]

ya' gone AWOL on us?

[alfa6]

SAM is either busy trying to figure out how to put all that cedar together or recovering from trying to figure out how to put all that cedar together.

Spiderboy is loking good these days :-)

Regards

alfa6 ;>}

[Samwise]

The best part of Christmas is when the kitchen is cleaned up and you get to sit down. :^)

[Professional Engineer]

I find flamethrowers work exceedingly well for cleanup. ;-)

[Samwise]

I find flamethrowers work exceedingly well for cleanup.

What is it with foxholers and flamethrowers? Y'all told me to use one to take care of our leaves. Now you're recommending one for the kitchen?

BTW, I didn't realize Spider boy was taking karate. What style is his learning? It looks like he outranks Hobbit Lass. She just started. She is half gold/half white (Ju Tengo Kyu). Her dojo teaches the shorei goju ryu style. She is learning the pinan nidan kata.

[PhilDragoo]

Mary S. Lovell

Cast No Shadow: The Life of the American Spy Who Changed the Course of World War II.

New York: Pantheon Books, 1992.

The story of Amy Elizabeth Thorpe Pack who spied for the British Security Coordination and the Office of Strategic Services. Her work led to the acquisition of the Italian and French naval ciphers prior to America's landing in North Africa and other critical data.

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Lovell, Mary S. Cast No Shadow: The Life of the American Spy Who Changed the Course of World War II. New York: Pantheon Books, 1992.

This book is about Amy Elizabeth Thorpe Pack, the acquisition of the Italian and French naval ciphers prior to the American landing in North Africa in November 1942, and other espionage sexploits.

Troy, FILS 11.3, says Cast No Shadow is an "excellent work of research and writing." It provides a "convincing account of a sex-obsessed woman who found fulfillment in espionage, as a spy for BSC [British Security Coordination] and/or the Office of Strategic Services (OSS), chiefly in Washington in 1941-42." This is "a good read."

Binker, AIJ 13.3, finds that, under the author's "skillful handling," Pack "emerges as a woman of extraordinary courage, daring, intelligence, and character. In short, the perfect spy."

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Amazon offerings of above book

Heirs of the admiral sued a British author in an Italian court for defamation in 1967, insisting Lais (who had died in 1951) had not betrayed military secrets, and won.

Two Italians in an Italian court win a suit on behalf of an Italian against a British author.

Well, du-uh.

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Uncle Sam, however, took no such charitable view:

4 April 1941

The United States asked withdrawal of Italian naval attaché

("I have the honor to state that various facts and circumstances have come to the attention of the Government. of the United States connecting Admiral Alberto Lais, Naval Attaché of the Royal Italian Embassy, with the commission by certain persons of acts in violation of the laws of the United States." The President has reached the conclusion that the continued presence of Admiral Lais as Naval Attach of the Embassy would no longer be agreeable to this Government." Bulletin, Vol. IV, No. 93, pp. 420 f.)

Thus did the so-innocent Lais become persona non grata.

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1963 US furnishes cereal to USSR

In other news, Yuschenko beats Yanukovych who bemoans Western intervention preventing fraud and intimidation.

Oh, and the running dogs disrupted another dioxin dinner plot.

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You Can't Make This Stuf Up Department:

Tehran: Iran’s Air Force has been ordered to shoot down any unknown or suspicious flying objects in Iran’s airspace, an Air Force spokesman said on Saturday amid state-media reports of sightings of flying objects near Iran’s nuclear installations.

Unconfirmed reports suggest a granddaughter of Amy Elizabeth Thorpe-Pack-Brousse, MI6/CIA Saucerspankentruppen.

[U S Army EOD]

I am not much into martial arts as I still prefer the Marshal Dillion method of taking people out.

[U S Army EOD]

Flamethrowers work great in the kitchen when you are trying to cook something.

[Samwise]

[snippy_about_it]

Just a FYI post for today.

Snippy and I have been at the store all day putting up fixtures and moving inventory back and forth, still managed to make two sales even though we were officially closed (some people just "have to have their seed"). We finished the seed bin area, put up all the fixtures on our "window wall" and managed to get a lot of the inventory back in place temporarily so we can open for business tomorrow. We have about 2/3 of all the fixtures up, not bad for 2 days of work.

I saw Snippy taking pictures so maybe she'll post some tomorrow. Have to put together a thread for tomorrow and then I'm taking a shower and hitting the sack.

Being an evil Capitalist pig is sure taking a lot of time. ;-)

[SAMWolf]

Hey! You forgot to log off the back room computer again, that last post was supposed to be from from me.

[w_over_w]

and then I'm taking a shower

We'll ping you if anything important happens.

[snippy_about_it]

We'll ping you if anything important happens.

LOL. Good evening w over w.

[snippy_about_it]

Hey! You forgot to log off the back room computer again

Hey! You forgot to log in to the back office computer!

[snippy_about_it]

LOL. Thanks Phil. I might have to see if the library has any of these books.

[snippy_about_it]

What is it with foxholers and flamethrowers?

It's because it's a tool that works, first time, every time. No clean up required. ;-)

[snippy_about_it]

I saw that about Julia Childs while researching this one. Neat. So many people did so much during WWII, we'll never know all of it, but I keep searching.

[snippy_about_it]

LOL. I'm with Santa on this cartoon. To heck with it!

[snippy_about_it]

Late night hugs. We had a long day of work today and couldn't get freepin' til now!

[snippy_about_it]

that would require logical thought in place of emotional retardation.

LOL. It would indeed!