Marie was born in London. She had an English father and a Latvian mother. She was educated at a German school in Riga before moving to Paris, France in 1940. Paris fell to Nazi Germany and she was interned in the Frontstalage interment camp at Besancon.
She escaped the Nazis and helped a wounded British airman return to England.
She was then recruited by the Special Operations Executive (SOE) i 1942. Her task was to assess and test the security awareness of trainee secret agents. Her code name was 'Fifi ’ and she had a cover identity of Christine Collard. Her reports showed that flatter and attention were all the trainees needed for them to reveal everything they knew. As a result of her reports ( documents declassified in 2014) trainee agents were sacked from SOE.
It was only after her files were made public in 2014 that people became aware of her remarkable job. It is now no secret what an amazing undercover agent Marie was during WW11.
She died on 5th November 2007, aged 87 taking her secrets with her.
Sources
Wikipedia
*Great Women who changed the World by Kate Pankhurst
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