Born to an Indian Sufi father and an American mother, Noor Inayat Khan was the SOE's first female wireless operator who was sent into occupied France Popular culture often romanticises the world of espionage, depicting spies as suave, sharply dressed figures who slip in and out of danger with cinematic ease. But the real world of intelligence work, especially during World War II, was far more brutal, far more human, and often far more tragic. Hidden deep within this history is a chapter that rarely finds its way into textbooks: the women who risked everything to infiltrate Hitler’s Europe, only...
Monitoring Antisemitism Intel
