Triple agent codenamed CAT

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0:38 Depends on how you interpret it. The French spy and triple agent knowns Less Shots marked Matilda Carre. She was born in Chateaurou, France, in nineteen oh eight. She joined the Army Army Nurse Corps start of World War Two became leading member of the Interay spy network. She was a interrogated by the Germans in nineteen forty one and turned against her former comrades and began working for the Gestapo.

1:08 We're going to learn the rest of this story in a minute, so let's start off She's known as the cat, despised by her former comrades and the French resistan moved because of her treachery. Matilda Carey lived in pre war existence that was almost dull in his conventional contours. As many of the spies that we have read about, she earned a law degree at Sarbonne. After graduation, she married Maurice Carey, a school teacher, and moved with him to Olron, Algeria.

1:34 They divorced after just six years and she returned to France on the evil World War Two. During the brief struggle to hold back the German onslaught, resulting in a catastrophic defeat for the French, Mattilda Carey served as a member of the French Army's and nurse Corps. After the defeat, she was evacuated to the southern southern city of Tulau, where she met a Polish military intelligence officer by the name of Captain Roman Sisnarski cze rna w Ski. He remained who remained in France as part of a network to spy on the Germans and transmit the data to the Polish embassy in Madrid. Garbie Ssnarski had been recruited by the overall chief of Polish intelligence in France, Colonel Zarevensky, the man responsible for brilliantly improvising the creation of an

2:21 anti German spy operation using the papers of a Frenchman killed in the fighting. Sarzinsky went under the code name Valentine, who was a bold operative who quickly organized an effective network of agents that called itself it There it was a combination of French and Polish intelligence. From his headquarters Imparisey masterminded a rapidly growing organization and by the time wireless contact was established, the ring consisted of agents operating in almost all of the German occupied zone in France.

2:51 He and until the Karree had become lovers, and she quickly emerges one of their most valuable members, cool headed and capable of inspiring confidence in her fellow spy. That's how she earned her the code name the Cat. By late summer nineteen forty one, the Interire network was operating at a maximum effectiveness when it had operative operatives working in fourteen districts of German controlled France. It had over one hundred agents strategically located. Unfortunately, the luck ran out in November nineteen forty one. This was part due to the arrival in Paris of Sergeant Hugo Bleicher or Bliker Blicchr, a former Geschappo agent who had been assigned to work for the ABO ABWHR that's the German or the Nazi

3:36 intelligence service. Back thenists especially chosen to wipe out interirea Bliker possessed talents as an intelligence agent, the guaranteed doom for the Allies by network. The fatal blow came after a major lapse of security in Charbou in early November nineteen forty one, which provided the Germans with crucial information about the ring and enabled them to round up most of the members. Harsh interrogation methods, including physical torture, provided Blacker's men with major pieces of information, and a few hours later Blaker arrested and unsuspecting Matilda Carey when Valentine codenamed Valentine refused to reveal any useful information to his German interrogators. Despite many hours of torture, Blacker decided to

4:21 concentrate on Carey. The strategy, which is very different in her case, emphasized a psychological offensive against the prisoner rather than the affliction of pain. First, he initiated a dramatic change in surroundings, having he moved from a blaque prison cell to a place of startling contrast, the five star hotel.

4:39 The hotel also happened to be abbwere headquarters in Paris. Over a wonderful meal, Blaker was able to convince Cary that by working for him, she would only save herself from torture and probable death, but also save the lives of her comrades, with whom he would protect from execution. All that was required as a Carey now began working for the abwear become a double agent, helping them to deceive the British by feeding them false information. And her memoirs written at the end of her life, care would later admit that within hours of being interrogated by Bliker, she would commit the greatest act of cowardice in her life.

5:17 Within days of turning, care was working to assist Bliker and rounding up the remaining members of Interorey who still remained at large. Now operating as a double agent, the cat led Bliker to the homes and meeting places of a number of women and men who only days before have been her trusted comrades. She identified one of them, Claude Joufrey, by greeting him with a kiss at the cafe at Little fourteenth. Blaker's agencies the four radio transmitters of the Interra network moving to a Paris suburbs so as to continue sending messages to London as if nothing had happened. Since Care provided the Auboy with all necessary codes, transmission schedules, and pre arranged security checks, that was little

5:56 that might arouse the suspicion of British intelligence. However, one of the few members of Vorey who still remained free, Pierre Devo Moncau vome Coort, began to suspect that Care was in some way acting suspiciously To test her loyalty. In January nineteen forty two, he asked her to procure some forged identity documents. She showed up the next day, bringing with her a perfect set of papers, complete with authentic German stamps. On top of this, she produced a photograph with an air of studied conage. Casualness asked Devo Moccoy if he recognized the man in the photo who was an agent of British Special Operations Executive SOE, British's former intelligence service, especially created for the Nazis in World

6:41 War Two. His suspicious confirmed Devo mokayheedually accused Carey of treachery and working for the Nazis. Confronted by the facts, she broke down in tears and confessed. Within the rules governing the precarious world of espionage, it would not have been unreasonable for Devo Mocco to kill Correy, warned the remaining members, and flee himself off. But his plans were much more complex. You see, he persuaded care to once more work for the Allies, making her now a triple agent.

7:08 Soon after this dramatic change in her loyalty, she informed Bliker that Drumbar Deavia Morcaux was planned to go to England for an important meeting with British intelligence, and that she was being considered for inclusion. Though she convinced Bliker, he in turn had considerable difficulty convincing his superiors of the value to the abware of allowing kra to make a secret trip to Britain. Eventually, though Blaker received permission for care and Devamrcaux to leave France after two failed attempts by British intelligence agents to locate the two key agents on an isolated beach. They were finally picked up and taken to London. Safely aggrived across the Channel. At Dartmouth, Carey was debriefed by British intelligence. She broke down almost immediately,

7:48 admitting her capitulation under Bliker's interrogations and her work for the Abware. She also explained her return to the entirea fold under Deva Morcau's leadership several months previously. Her January nineteen forty nine trial. The lasted four days and resulted in a death sentence, but upon appeal it was reduced to a life imprisonment. Her defense attorney did not dispute her treasonous behavior, but argue that the judge should consider that this woman was faced with a choice of life or death. Do not forget that from the beginning of the resistance she was a heroine. Would you put to death those who at the beginning sow the seed of faith and later overestimated their own strengths to the defense attorney.

8:26 Caray was eventually released in nineteen fifty four and attempted to resume her life with a new identity. By the early sixties she published her memoirs. Her health had begun to fail and she was rapidly losing her eyesight. Caray died in total obscurity in the early nineteen seventies. So there is the story of the cat