An attaché of the Second Bureau sits across a woman with features that make her appear younger than she is, and listens to her recount her life story of travel, languages, and learning, with great interest for the woman who seems to have a natural charm. Louise de Bettignies would become the leader of a spy network for the British during the course of the First World War, but had also once been part of the suffrage women in her younger years before the war, and climbed up the ranks due to her commitment and enthusiasm for the cause1. Espionage, as Christopher Andrew says in Secret Service: The Making of the British Intelligence Community, is a field that has often left people discouraged to even discuss or research, but the literature since …show more content…
An example is that both make mention of the important information that was collected through train watchers, but Jeffery is the one to mention that a large number of these train watching organizations were women15. Moreover, while both mention the network named La Dame Blanche that was operating in Belgium, the detail that Jeffery operates with shows the availability of document both authors were given access to. The Alice Network, or also known as the Ramble Network, was also an important network in the British Intelligence Services, and while it is mentioned in Andrew’s Secret Service, and not mentioned at all in Jeffery’s, the information that was available to Andrew shows that the information he relied upon was not always reliable in its information, whether because of secrecy or because of the inaccuracy of documents, as both Louise de Bettignies’ codename and real name are wrong, but her story, though with slight deviations16, also align to other sources published more