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Agent XX7.(Book Review)
The image of the seductive female agent frightened and fascinated people even before Mata Hari faced a French firing squad, in 1917. Not only did it tap into fears about women's treachery, but it distinguished between the government-intelligence bureaucracy and the more dangerous and romantic aspects of espionage. In FEMALE INTELLIGENCE: WOMEN AND ESPIONAGE IN THE FIRST WORLD WAR (N.Y.U.), Tammy Proctor attempts to rescue female spies from cliches that classed them as either sexual predators or martyred virgins, manipulators or dupes, heartless vamps or emotional basket cases.
Elizabeth Bentley, the subject of Lauren Kessler's CLEVER GIRL: ELIZABETH BENTLEY AND THE DAWN OF THE MC CARTHY ERA (HarperCollins), fell into the latter camp--more a depressive than a femme fatale. A Communist spy while her K.G.B. lover was ...
- Terror groups operating from Pak grown bolder: US.
- News wire article from: PTI - The Press Trust of India Ltd. July 18, 2008 700+ words
Terror groups operating from Pak grown bolder: US By: Sridhar Krishnaswami Washington, July 18 (PTI) Faced with an increasingly sophisticated insurgency...
- IBM to set up third software lab in Israel: The new lab will comprise three R&D...
- Newspaper article from: Globes (Tel Aviv, Israel) August 20, 2006 700+ words
...laboratory, and had appointed Daniel Yellin as its director. The new laboratory will consolidate three software development groups operating in Rehovot and Jerusalem, which are run by teams of companies IBM acquired in recent years. IBM's R&D activity...
- Palestinian groups operating in Syria.
- Newspaper article from: Knight Ridder/Tribune News Service March 12, 2004 700+ words
Here are some Palestinian organizations operating in Syria: _ Hamas ("Islamic Resistance Movement Since 1987, Hamas has pursued the creation of an Islamic state in place of Israel. It has run candidates for political office, done charitable work in the West Bank and supported suicide bombings and
- No talks with the criminal groups operating around Peshawar under the grab of...
- News wire article from: PPI - Pakistan Press International June 22, 2008 700+ words
Peshawar , June 21 (PPI)Provincial government would not contact the criminals being operating around the capital city on the name of Taliban and defaming them whereas deal with Taliban in Swat would be honored and their arrested persons would be released soon, said the senior minister of NWFP
- Personnel.(Brief Article)
- Magazine article from: Plastics Engineering Tabot, Alyson January 1, 2002 700+ words
...time management of the Wolfeboro, N.H. plant. TEKNOR COLOR Teknor Color Company, Pawtucket, R.I., has named Tammy Proctor field sales representative with responsibility for sales in Georgia, Florida, and parts of Alabama and Tennessee, and...
- Female Intelligence: Women and Espionage in the First World War.(Book Review)
- Magazine article from: Albion Silbey, David June 22, 2004 700+ words
...espionage as seductresses, dangerously erotic spies who could catch men unguarded and wile their way to a nation's secrets. Tammy Proctor takes issue with this image in this book. Such an icon--carved in the likeness of Mata Hari--obscures, Proctor points...
- Lake Township, Ohio, Flea Market Expects Weekly Crowd.
- Newspaper article from: Akron Beacon Journal (Akron, Ohio) (via Knight-Ridder/Tribune Business News) September 6, 2002 700+ words
...have set up satellite stores at MarketPlace. "It's like expanding without having the overhead and utilities," said Tammy Proctor, president of the Lake Township Chamber of Commerce. MarketPlace's expected ripple effect may even spread to retailers...
- Concerned About Presence Of Armed Groups In Eastern Democratic Republic Of...
- Press release article from: M2 Presswire March 14, 2008 700+ words
...Interahamwe), and other Rwandan armed groups operating in the eastern Democratic Republic...political and military leaders of armed groups operating in the Democratic Republic of the...Interahamwe, and other Rwandan armed groups operating in the eastern Democratic Republic...
