The beauty in the photo is charming and touching, looking like a stripper with a graceful figure. In fact, she is one of the most legendary spies in the history of espionage in the world.
She has both a Westerner figure and an Oriental mysterious charm. During World War I, she used this seductive temperament and sexy and charming image to maneuver between military and political dignitaries of various countries, acting as a double-sided spy.
Her ending is equally poignant - before being executed, she is naked, and finally faces death with a flying kiss.
Her name was Marta Hari and her original name was Margaretha Giltruida Zeli, born on August 7, 1876, in a small town near the city of Leivaton, in the province of Friesland in northern the Netherlands, the only girl of four children. Her father was a Dutch farmer and owned a hat shop and lived well. Her mother is an Indonesian Javanese, so she has a mixture of East and West—smooth skin, Oriental black hair, black eyes, olive brown skin, and a variety of styles.
At the age of fourteen or fifteen, Margaretha came out of a very moving place, with both the mysterious charm of the East and the proud body of a white woman, and there were many suitors around her. In July 1895, at the age of 19, Margaresa married a Dutch naval officer 22 years her senior.
After their marriage, the couple moved to Java and soon had two children, a man and a woman. Unfortunately, in 1899, their son died unexpectedly, and the family was in trouble, which exacerbated the already incompatible relationship.
To make ends meet, she made the most of her resources and performed striptease at a Parisian theater. In that year, few people performed so boldly that the audience was immediately amazed by her, and the theater manager gave her the stage name "Marta Harley".
This name, stay with her for life!
She was bold and open, and since then she has taken many photos of revealing clothes and even nudity, and brought this image to her stage performances. All kinds of bold practices won her more voices, and she became the red and purple dancing star in Paris at that time.
At the time, Le Parisien commented: "As soon as she appears, the audience in the audience is crazy." ”
During this period, her seductive temperament and sexy and charming image enabled her to maneuver between French and German dignitaries as a courtesan, and also provided great convenience for her future intelligence work.
After the outbreak of World War I, the Germans approached him and wanted to use her to get some intelligence. She thought that it would not be a good deal to make money with news and body, so she agreed to the Germans' request.
It is said that in order to buy this glamorous spy, the German side spent 2 million US dollars, which was undoubtedly a huge amount of money at the time. The gifted Marta soon applied her "acting" genius to espionage, using her submissive body to extract information from the mouths of ministers and generals who were greedy for pleasure and obsessed with women.
With financial support, Marta dressed up more flamboyantly, captured more senior French government officials and military generals, and obtained a steady stream of information from them.
These dignitaries never dreamed that if they were on the wine table or by the pillow, they would let the star around them leak out, causing huge losses to their own country.
For example, on the eve of the Battle of the Marne, Marta obtained information from a French general. The Germans received intelligence and quickly arranged an ambush, and on the first day several thousand French troops fell at the gunpoint of the Germans.
Marta's many abnormal contacts soon attracted the attention of British secret intelligence agents lurking in Paris. The British immediately revealed her suspicions to the Parisian side, and Captain George Laudex, who was in charge of French intelligence, immediately decided to recruit Marta as a double spy and secretly serve France under the cover of being a German spy.
Marta Halle did a good job of double agent, between Germany and France.
She did not disappoint the French, and soon after, she used beauty to seduce a German colonel and obtain important information from him. After suffering heavy losses, the Germans dealt with the leaking colonel seriously, and suspected Harley, who was having an affair with him.
As the saying goes: If you often walk by the river, where are there not wet shoes? What's more, Marta is walking between two warring nations, and she is dancing on the tip of a knife!
In January 1917, while touring neutral Spain, Marta sent some of the Spanish government's movements to Berlin, where he was monitored by British spy agencies. Because Britain and France were in the same Entente camp, the British immediately informed the French counterintelligence agency of her movements.
On February 13, as soon as Marta Halle entered France, intelligence arrested him in his hotel apartment in Paris.
Marta defended herself: I am working for France as a double agent and should not be treated like this!
In fact, her arrest was deliberately revealed to Britain and France in advance by Germany in killing people with a knife.
In the first three years of World War I, the French army was defeated and demoralized, and hundreds of thousands of Entente soldiers died on the battlefield. The French government, facing enormous pressure from domestic public opinion, is also desperate to find a scapegoat, and Marta is the most suitable candidate.
Therefore, the execution of Marta would divert public attention and absolve the government of responsibility.
On October 15, 1917, Marta embarked on her death journey wearing a wide-brimmed black hat, black sheepskin gloves on her hands, and red dancing shoes.
When the 11 executioners began to aim in a clearing outside Paris, the 41-year-old woman's face did not show the slightest panic. Instead, she straightened her chest and deliberately unfastened her blouse, exposing her plump breasts.
Then, she calmly gave a flying kiss to the executioner on the opposite side, and those with guns were immediately stunned!
With an order, a generation of spies came to an end.
After her execution, her body was collected by the hospital, and her head was embalmed and stored in a museum in Paris. Years later, she still maintains her red-lipped hair before her death, as beautiful as when she was alive, attracting many people to visit.
Strangely, by 2000, Marta's head was gone.
It was later speculated that it may have been stolen by her admirers.
