(The Woman Who Told History – Issue 1040)
Introduction: In the history of the world, female spies have a long history, such as Xi Shi in ancient China. The role of an outstanding spy is to steal intelligence at best and destroy his country at worst. However, the female spy we are talking about today, she was recruited by two major powers to be a double-sided spy because she was too beautiful, and exerted her subtle influence in world war I, but at the age of 41, this female spy was shot and shot 11 times. The legend is that after she was shot, unlike other spies who were buried in the loess, her head was collected by a Museum in France, and unfortunately, 37 years later, this beautiful head was lost due to the relocation, which is really regrettable.
On 7 August 1876, a baby girl of mixed Eastern and Western descent (mother Indian and Dutch father) was born on a farm near the dutch city of Lwatton. The farmer's father gave her the name Margareza Giltruida Zeli ,(after translating Chinese, it was generally referred to as Marta Harley).
Marta Harley's life is divided into two main stages: the first stage is in the Netherlands and India, that is, before coming to Paris; the second stage is to go to Paris, France. Paris is where she realized the legend of her life, but before coming to Paris, she experienced a very bad life.
Stage 1: Before coming to Paris.
At the beginning of her birth, because the family economy was still relatively rich, life was not bad, so that this little girl who was born to love beauty spent a short happy childhood. But as around the world, economic decay can destroy all peace and beauty, after all, material things are the foundation of 99% happiness. Problems in the dutch economy led to a direct impact on Marta Harley's family's estate – her father went bankrupt.
In order to support the family, Marta Harley's father, like all fathers, had to go out and find opportunities to forage for food to support the family. But going out to forage for food is also not ideal, and the hardships of survival have ruined the old man's temper - so the scene of the poor couple Pepsi lamenting is staged: endless quarrels over trivial matters. The end of the quarrel between husband and wife is either to quarrel to death, or to quarrel to part ways. Marta Harley's parents apparently chose the latter, and when their daughter, Marta Harley, was 15 years old, her parents paid homage to each other.
After her parents divorced, Marta Harley had no home to send, so she was sent to a normal boarding school and started a new life of her own. The following year, his mother died of depression and his father remarried. At this point, Marta Harley's home was completely shattered.
Few children who have lost the protection of their families are happy. Marta Harley is no exception, more unfortunately, sixteen-year-old Marta Harley looks very beautiful, her appearance combines the excellent genes of her parents' Mixed Eastern and Western blood, smooth skin is warm as jade, a black hair is particularly outstanding, so beautiful, it is inevitable to cause the heart of boys, the number of suitors is naturally needless to say. But infuriatingly, the school's principal was also moved, and he also put it into action, shamefully raping Marta Harley.
After this incident, Marta Harley became a scandal among the people, and became the object of ridicule and ridicule between teachers and students. Her situation can be imagined, how difficult it is. Finally, one day, Marta Harley couldn't stand all this and chose to leave. She went to her uncle in The Hague. But although her uncle took her in, how good could life be under the fence?
Finally, at the age of 19, she could get out of the situation under the fence. In early 1895, she saw a marriage notice in the newspaper. It was a 39-year-old Dutch captain in India named Rudolf McRiod.
Marta Harley, eager to have a home, sent her photographs and letters to the address, only to receive a quick reply, and Rudolf McRidd was also attracted to Marta Harley's beauty, and a few months later they were married.
But the marriage didn't bring real happiness to Marta Harley or make her feel the warmth of family. Their married life lasted for three or four years, but it was fraught with domestic violence and various discord. But Marta Harley endured, after all, a family is better than no home. In 1897 AD, Marta Harley gave birth to her first child, named Norman. In May of the same year, because of her husband's job transfer, they moved to live in a village called Ambarava on the island of Java in the East Indies. Here, Marta Harley fell in love with the dance of the goddess Kali and studied it seriously.
But on June 27, 1899, something happened on this day, and for Marta Harley, it was a disaster for her life: because she was only 2 years old, Norman died, not of illness, not of any natural death, but was poisoned by someone, and the murderer of her son was her nanny's lover,a brutal and angry Indonesian soldier. The reason the Indonesian soldier was so ferocious was that he couldn't stand Marta Harley's husband seducing his woman and making her belly bigger.
The husband's debauchery ruined his son's life and Marta Harley's last limit of patience. In endless despair, she left.
Stage 2: Coming to Paris.
In 1904, Marta Harley finally came to Paris after many twists and turns.
Anywhere in the world, eat. Paris is as beautiful as heaven, but it is not immune.
So Marta Harley, in order to survive, found a job in the circus, called a jockey.
However, in order to show that she was going to start a new phase in her life, Marta Harley also gave herself a new name, Miss MacLeod. Because the circus work is unstable and the income is relatively low, she also works part-time as an art model in her spare time.
Despite Herta Harley's hard work, she was unable to support herself. There was no way, she had to continue looking for a job. One day, she came to a theater to apply. At first, the theater manager had no intention of hiring her because she looked awkward and her clothes were old and gaunt. But when Marta Harley performed an oriental dance, the theater manager was stunned by Marta Harley's graceful dancing. The theater manager knew very well that this was the cash cow he was looking for. So Marta Harley was immediately hired on the spot and paid a month's salary in advance.
Of course, in order to make this beautiful woman have a better development, the theater manager gave her a stage name - Marta Harley - that is, which was later used by Marta Harley until the end of her life, so that the world called her Marta Harley, and her original name and the name she later took in Paris were forgotten.
Meticulously prepared by the theater, on March 13, 1905, Marta Harley made her debut at the Guimet Museum in Paris. As a result, Marta Harley, full of oriental charm, conquered the audience in Paris with her psychedelic dance. The media even used the term "enchanting woman" to describe Marta Harley. Le Parisien even commented: "As soon as she appears, the audience is crazy." ”
In this way, Marta Harley became famous in dance, but after becoming famous by dance, Marta Harley's life began to change again. On the one hand, her private life, when she first became famous, she focused on dance, and people can still think of her as a debauched dance artist, but gradually she became the lover of rich merchant and aristocratic men. On the other hand, after she became more famous and became a regular visitor to the aristocracy, she attracted the attention of another organization after World War I.
In 1914, World War I broke out. War has always been a man's business, but Marta Harley was unexpectedly involved and played an immeasurable role.
The year World War I broke out, Marta Harley toured to Germany. In the audience who came to watch her performance, there was a special character named Baron von Mirbach. This man was no ordinary person, he was a senior officer in charge of spies in the German high command, and when he watched Marta Harley dance, he suddenly had an idea in his mind.
When Marta Hari's performance was over, Baron von Mirbach sent someone to lobby Marta Harley, and he was very generous, with a shot of 20,000 francs. Marta Harley never imagined that the "big news events" she talked about when she interacted with the powerful could be so valuable. In addition, Marta Harley knew that dancing was also a youth meal, that she would be hated sooner or later, and that it was not a bad thing to prepare early, so she promised the Germans, and since then her identity has quietly changed again: from a well-known dancer to a German spy.
Intelligence is the first key to determining the victory or defeat of a war. Therefore, all preparations before the operation rely on reliable intelligence to be properly deployed. On the German side, it was precisely because marta Harley continuously obtained information from French officers and magnates and provided it to the German side, so that the German side gained the initiative as soon as the war began. For example, at the Battle of the Marne, because of Marta Harley's intelligence, the German army was well prepared, and the French army was defeated and killed by thousands.
Marta Harley then provided more information to the Germans. However, one of the most legendary espionage experiences in Marta Harley's life was the theft of the Type 19 tank design.
This tank is 1915, because of the development of the war, Britain and France are jointly and secretly developing a new type of tank with strong lethality - the Type 19 tank. When the German side learned of this information, it was very worried, so it wanted to get the design drawing of the new tank. After an in-depth investigation, the Germans received intelligence that the valuable tank design was hidden in the vault of the morgan family, a senior french general in the high command. However, ordinary spies have little chance to get close to this vault. So the Germans sent this difficult task to Marta Harley.
Marta Harley dressed up for this and soon got in touch with General Morgan, but General Morgan was a battle-hardened old fox, and after enjoying Marta Harley's bed, he was very measured in talking about other things, especially about the small treasury.
After Marta Harley's tricks were ineffective, she saw that General Morgan, since she was obsessed with her body, simply moved into General Morgan's house. In Marta Harley's view, such a close encounter can always find an opportunity.
At General Morgan's house, Marta Harley, after careful investigation, finally discovered the mysterious little vault behind an oil painting in his study while General Morgan was out. However, a password was needed to open the small vault, and Marta Harley racked her brains for it, checking a lot of information to no avail, and did not have an answer to General Morgan's exhaustion of tricks.
Just when Marta Harley couldn't do anything about it, the Germans gave her a secret telegram, telling her that the password was 6 digits, but also requiring her to get it within 24 hours. Time was so urgent that Marta Harley had to sneak sleeping pills into General Morgan's wine that night, but the problem was that General Morgan was obediently asleep, and the code was still unknown.
Marta Harley was so anxious to circle on the ground that people often felt the preciousness of time in such situations. So when Marta Harley looked up at the wall clock on the wall, she suddenly found that the time of the wall clock had been stopped, and the time of stopping was: 9:35 minutes and 15 seconds.
Marta Harley wondered, would this time be a password? But 93515 is only five digits. She thought again, 9 o'clock in the night is 21 o'clock, so will it be 213515? She wasn't sure about the number, but the time was tight and she decided to give it a try.
Marta Harley nervously went to General Morgan's study and entered 213515 into the small vault. The result was a surprise, and the lock of the small vault was opened. So she immediately used the miniature camera to take a picture of the 19 Tuk design, closed the vault, sent the film out, and the task was completed. At this time, General Morgan was still asleep.
As a spy, Marta Harley was at ease, and she feared being punished by the French after the war was over. It was at this time that French and British intelligence also received Marta Harley as a German spy. In response to the situation of Marta Harley, Captain Radou, the head of the French intelligence department, decided to make a plan and bribe Marta Harley to obtain German intelligence.
For the sake of long-term planning, Marta Harley accepted the request for French intelligence, became a spy for the French Intelligence Service, and began to work for France and the Allies. At this point, Marta Harley's life has undergone a dramatic transformation, she has become a double-sided spy, and will be recorded in the annals of history as a double-agent.
In this way, Marta Harley, with her beauty, wandered among the military and political leaders of various countries, providing intelligence for the German side and providing intelligence for the French side on the other. As for her performance, James Slauders, an expert on espionage, said of her as a spy: "Her work is excellent from any point of view. ”
For Marta Harley, there is no war, then her life is at most a dancer, or a plaything of the elite. But the war, but the crooked ground to achieve her, let her have her own place of use, and entered the annals of history.
But the war always came to an end, and she inevitably had to be judged.
It was February 1917, and early one morning, while Marta Harley was soaking in a milk bath, there was a knock on the door. Outside the door stood a sheriff with 5 subordinates. Marta Harley knew right away that what was supposed to happen was finally happening.
She was handcuffed and taken away after getting dressed and putting on simple makeup—leaving room 113 of the Elysee Hotel forever. She was then put in a single cell.
This was followed by the court proceedings, which, despite the generous representations of her lawyer, Crunet, were to no avail. In the end, Marta Harley confessed to her espionage crimes, and many officers were implicated and tried, such as General Messini.
The eight-month prison sentence ended quickly, and on October 15 of that year, Marta Harley was dressed neatly, with red dancing shoes on her feet, black gloves on her hands, and a black-rimmed hat on her head, calmly greeting the arrival of death.
In Vancenes, near Paris, Marta Harley smiled at the officer in charge and said:
"For the first time, someone was willing to pay 11 francs to possess me!"
(In French, the bullet is the same word as the franc)
Opposite Marta Harley were 11 executioners, clutching their guns, their black muzzles against Marta Harley's body.
With a command, 11 bullets roared out of the muzzle of the gun, and the brush brush shot at Marta Harley.
This year, Marta Harley was 41 years old.
This 41-year-old charismatic woman gave her body to the war, but also gave her life for the war.
She swayed some wars as a spy, but at the same time she fell victim to them.
The body of Marta Harley was transported to the Edémique de Paris, where her head, after a special treatment, with a smooth face and rosy lips, was collected by the Musée anatomi in Paris. In addition to the skull, the remains are also in the museum's collection, but 37 years later, when the museum was relocated in 1954, Marta Harley's head was accidentally lost.
References: The Biography of Marta Harley.