Invisible Women - Episode 3 is now available

Diane Greig's Podcast
Invisible Women
Episode 3 is now available!

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Episode 3: Propaganda

On her wedding day Liliana discovered that she was not only saying yes to marriage, but also to the perilous work of a wireless operator in one of the first resistance cells in France.

Speaking five languages by the age of 19, she was instrumental in encoding messages sent to Bletchley Park from a Polish Military cell in Lyon, run by her husband.

The cultural beliefs about women, and the relationship power gradient between women and men, supported her fiancé’s action to decide her fate.

In this episode, the patriarchal monopoly on power is easily exposed in the Allied propaganda of the era. In juxtaposition to this power, Liliana’s story reflects her authentic contributions, and her matchless abilities and ingenuity that saved them from certain capture when the cell was infiltrated by the Nazis.

Award winning Vancouver actor Colleen Winton is the voice of Liliana. You can read more about her here.

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Recent Articles on the Invisible Women website

Deep Cover Career Agents. Women made excellent spies in WW 2 partly because of western gendered projections about them not being astute, strategic or creative enough to be a threat. Stereotypically, women were believed to be virtuous virgins or hungry vamps (as discussed in Episode 3). These beliefs, promoted through Allied propaganda, also allowed Ursula Kuczynski, a non-Russian Soviet spy, a colonel in the Red Army to infiltrate Britain and steal hundreds of documents from Klaus Fuchs, a nuclear physicist. Read More

Redefining Espionage. When mandatory spying, like mandatory military training is imposed on a country’s citizens, it has a direct impact on foreign countries and potentially the balance of power in the world. This coupled with the fact that espionage is not conceptualised internationally as an Act of War for example, the recent tremendous U.S. government breach of information by Russian intelligence services, suggests that how we interpret the infiltration of sensitive systems and stealing crucial secrets needs revisiting. Read more.

Shifting Paradigm. Richard Moore, the new head of the UK’s SIS, the Secret Intelligence Service, has put out a call for those with disabilities to join the intelligence community. He is broadening the diversity of skills and backgrounds at MI6 beyond “inspiring” women spies. Read more.

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