1. Mata Hari
This Dutch actress and dancer were really called Margaretha Geertruida Zelle. After her divorce, she was recruited by the British counterintelligence office to become a spy who in everyone's eyes would be a very attractive exotic Indian dancer. During the First World War, she used her charms to seduce a large number of high-ranking soldiers and obtain information that was later passed on to the British government, but also to the Germans, until they caught her double game. She was shot in Paris in October 1917.
2. Juan Pujol
This spy was Spanish and managed to deceive Hitler during World War II. He worked for the British Intelligence Services after the hatred he cultivated for fascism in the Spanish Civil War. His objective for MI5 was to get information and misinform Hitler to hinder his activities. He made the dictator believe that the Allied landing would be in Calais, 250 km from where it would actually be. His spy's name was Garbo and he was awarded the German Iron Cross and the Order of the British Empire, something unusual in history.
3. Mark Felt
Another of the most famous spies in history, number 2 of the FBI when Watergate was uncovered, was a scandal of recordings of the Democratic opposition that ended the political life of Richard Nixon. He provided all the information to two journalists, which led the president to resign in August 1974. It has been one of the most politically consequential espionage cases in history, and the identity of Mark Felt is one of the biggest mysteries. journalistic, since it was not until 8 years ago that it was really known who he was.
4. Mr. Richebourg
The great peculiarity of this spy was his size, since he measured only 58 centimeters. Born in 1768, his work methods were so unique that at the age of 21, he was recruited by one of the factions of the French Revolution to pass information from Paris to Orleans. His main method was to memorize the messages and then disguise himself as a baby and have him carried with a blanket to cross the border as if he were a newborn. Sometimes even the baby carriage was left with various officers so that he could capture all kinds of conversations without raising suspicions.
5. Ramon Mercader
Curiously, there is another Spanish spy among the most famous. In this case, a member of the Unified Socialist Party of Catalonia became part of the Soviet secret services thanks to his connection during the Spanish Civil War. The Soviets trained him specifically for espionage and he changed his identity to Jacques Mornard. His great objective was to assassinate Trotsky, who had lived in exile in Mexico since 1930. He achieved this by hitting him in the skull with a climbing tool. He served time but kept his real identity a secret, and later traveled to the USSR, where he was decorated as a hero.
