The Spy wore Red

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hen Aline Griffith was f born in Pearl River, new ' York, in 1923, one might have guessed from her exceptional beauty that a career as an actress or a model might be in her future. Tew would have imagined that twenty-one years later, she would find herself in Spain as a deep-cover OSS agent, infiltrating the highest levels of Spanish society; or that five years later still, she would marry a Spanish grandee and become one of the most watched, most admired, most fascinating women of international society. This is the story of Aline, Countess of Romanones, a story of courage, beauty and success that will move readers with its amazing combination of autobiographical fact and narrative force.
Reading The Spy Wore Red is like stepping into the script of Hitchcock's 1946 Cary Grant-Ingrid Bergman film notorious. After confiding in 1943 to a young admirer her desire to serve the Allied cause, the fledgling model is recruited, sent to Washington, trained as a spy and flown to Spain. Her... Tovább

Fülszöveg

hen Aline Griffith was f born in Pearl River, new ' York, in 1923, one might have guessed from her exceptional beauty that a career as an actress or a model might be in her future. Tew would have imagined that twenty-one years later, she would find herself in Spain as a deep-cover OSS agent, infiltrating the highest levels of Spanish society; or that five years later still, she would marry a Spanish grandee and become one of the most watched, most admired, most fascinating women of international society. This is the story of Aline, Countess of Romanones, a story of courage, beauty and success that will move readers with its amazing combination of autobiographical fact and narrative force.
Reading The Spy Wore Red is like stepping into the script of Hitchcock's 1946 Cary Grant-Ingrid Bergman film notorious. After confiding in 1943 to a young admirer her desire to serve the Allied cause, the fledgling model is recruited, sent to Washington, trained as a spy and flown to Spain. Her mission: to uncover Madrid's high-society links to the German nazi regime.
As an undercover agent, Aline wends her way through lavish Madrid balls and dinners, meeting the creme de la creme of Spanish society, noting handshakes, winks and nods among suspicious—and some previously unsuspected—individuals. She and her colleagues live by code name and by their wits. When security is breached. Aline is endangered, and she narrowly escapes several
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attempts on her life. When she falls in love with one of her fellow agents, complications —and hazards—abound.
The Spy Wore Red is full of amazing plot turns, and readers will have to remind themselves they are reading a memoir. It is also full of astounding characters and some startling revelations about them: Madrid high society is peppered with Nazi spies, and Mine's mission—at which she is very successful—is to expose them.
"My colleague Aline Romanones has written a fascinating and exciting story evoking those marvelous days we served in the OSS in Europe. Her narrative reflects sensitively and accurately the clandestine intrigue and strategic maneuvers that marked the struggle between the secret services as well as the Allied and Axis powers and the atmosphere and high social life in wartime Spain."
—William J. Casey OSS agent, 1942-45 CIA director, 1981-87 Vissza