Mata Hari
Executed double agent
Mata Hari was a Dutch exotic dancer executed by France in 1917 for espionage during World War I.
Her name has become shorthand for a seductive female spy who uses her charms to extract secrets: She played the Mata Hari, getting him to reveal classified information.
The term implies glamour and danger combined with sexual manipulation.
- femme fataleTreacherous enchantress
- espionageCovert intelligence gathering
- double agentSpy betraying their side
- spyCovert information gatherer
- seductressWoman who entices romantically
secret agent · intelligence agent · enemy agent · World War I · executed · betrayal · Josephine Baker · operative · Greta Garbo · Dutch · secret identity · cover story · double life · deception · Germany · scapegoat · fallen woman · counterintelligence
- WWI FiguresKaiser Wilhelm II, Woodrow Wilson, Tsar Nicholas II, King George V, Archduke Franz Ferdinand
- spiesJames Bond, spy, Jason Bourne, secret agent, Ethan Hunt
- Traitorstraitor, turncoat, betrayer, Judas, Benedict Arnold
- femme fatalesfemme fatale, seductress, temptress, vixen, enchantress
- pseudonymspen name, pen names, pseudonym, pseudonyms, nom de plume
- Spies and Traitorsspy, mole, traitor, double agents, moles
loyalty and allegiance
Mata Haripatriot
Devoted country supporter
loyalist · Nathan Hale · national hero · freedom fighter · resistance fighter