For Women’s History Month, Atlas Obscura delves into the world of espionage, where being overlooked and underestimated has been an asset for centuries of women spies. Read about more of history’s hidden Secret Agent Women. For a spy, Marguerite Harrison was remarkably forthright. In fall 1919, when the U.S. Army Military Intelligence Division asked her to go to Russia to gather information on Vladmir Lenin and the Bolshevik Party, the 40-year-old Baltimore Sun journalist first asked Russia for permission to enter the country. When her request was denied, she traveled…
