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Mata hari biography!
Before we get to the life of Mata Hari, the woman who epitomises spying and sexual intrigue, a little story.
The late actor Peter Ustinov used to tell a great anecdote about his very short career in espionage.
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An MI5 operative had arranged to meet him at London&#;s Sloane Square Tube station for interview. Ustinov was there on time. He waited. And waited.
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He saw no-one. Later he called a number to find out what had gone wrong. The voice on the other end of the line told him that the handler had been there at the arranged time. Ustinov hadn&#;t noticed him.
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But the spook had noticed Ustinov and deemed him too recognisable to make it as a spy. The aim of any good spy is to be unremarkable. Ustinov was anything but.
Which brings us to Margaretha Geertruida &#;Margreet&#; MacLeod (née Zelle; 7 August – 15 October ), popularly known as Mata Hari, the Dutch-born exotic dancer and escort executed by the French in on the charge of spying for Germany during World War I and contributing to