Bé6 "CASTLEGAR NEWS, November 5, 1980 é Mata Hari: Mata Hart was a 10. It is now well over 60 years since the unusual name Mata Hari was a household word around the world. ‘It is one of those} pames everyone has heard. Margaret ‘Gertrude Zelle was a “beauu- tiful Dutch girl of 20 when she answered an ad in an Amsterdam newspaper. By replying to the advertisement she was to begin a journey through Ilfe that was to lead to disaster. Capt. Rodolf MacLeod had been a British Army man all his adult life. Now in his early 40s, he was taking his an ual leave in Amsterdam, having ‘just returned from a tour of duty in the Indies. One day he remarked to a friend that life had become somewhat of a re. MacLeod's friend knew what was missing from his life. He neéded a ‘The friend took it upon himself to place an ad fn the newspaper: ‘Captain from the Indies, spending vacation in Holland, eeks suitable fe, preferably with a Hitle > money. Letters, etc. exchanged.” Tt‘ was this ad that Margaret Zelle answered. MacLeod receive Berlin Police, on the day World War I was’ decla: rolared this point in Mata Harl’s career it ie a bit difficult to separate fact from fiction. Was she a spy for France or :-. Germai any, or as many informed sources i ~Iattate, for both? It is certain that during - the ‘course of the war she had close contact with senior German intelligence officers, and in ace often dined at Ger- - ? : hie peaaauarte passed along to the German ich in turn {informed the sub- was arres| ‘pula bound for Holland via E: nee iH) Authorities intercepte suspected spy at Falmouth and placed her in the Tower of London, where she underwent extensive interrogation by Sir 4 Basil Thompson, ‘chief of Scotland Yard. Thompson later revealed that it was d this interrogation that Hari confesséed to him that she was Spying for the French and not the Germans. As he had no direct proof that she was in the employ of the Germans, and as it was not her intention fo land on British soil, he let Java. Soon the cap major, and the union was blessed with a second child, Jeanne- On the surface the ae as appeared tobe an ayerage army couple, but all was not going well. Margaret hated Java and her restricted life as an officer's Yi The pair had monumental batt! ee MacLeod continually berated Margaret for flirting with other men. To make matters worse, Norman took ill suddenly pad dled: The incessant arguing con- hls roof. Actually whore.”* that had - Amsterdam: But it wasn’t until Sinearet decided to try dancing that she hit he jackpot. She was an instant sensation or a couple of very good reasons. She got he bi it idea to perform in private salons, where her various seductive gyra- tions could be viewed in the nude. Soon she came up with the stage name, Mata . Hari, which in Malaya means Eye ot the Dawn, pcois empath She was by. far the most sensational former in Paris. Ambassadors, min- feberalpy ane and the very rich flocked or Europe — of course, he exotic hered over te tivard sign of loyalty to ay eens. outa ard sign of loyal Sanyo leular: ry, dies all ad it really matter? Shell hed from ae to time gone to bed with some of the most {portant military and financial men in all of . tion of French Intelligence when she rode triumphantly through the streets of Berlin wit Herr von Jagow, Chief of er mn her way. Espionage charged ita Hari retumed to France, where Y nee As “son "as her conviction became public knowledge, a great effort was put . forward by ranking French officials to save her life. Many of these men were not sure whether they had given Mata information useful to the enem: Men reveal strange secrets while in ith women, aU At her trial Mata Hari swore she: was. aid by many Frenchmen for mal love, not war. As her exécution date ap) roached, Mata Hari displayed a cer- degree of courage. This display of arses has is piven rise rise to the theory that « she was con be He ualng blank ce rang en ‘She was wOno Oct. 15, 1917, comforted by two nuns, : she was escorted: to meld herself against the stake tied. Some accounts of her death phere that just before tte fatal shots rang out, Mata Hari threw open her dress, revealing Be seductive ly for the last tim After her influential friends sought to vindicate her memory, Captain Georges Ladoux, who at the time of Mata Hari’s executions, was the head of French counterinte! gence, came under great suspicion as a y “death, Mata Hari’s many- self, Mata Hari’s fo bed- | male 1993, Ladoux died, leaving Papers indicating Mata Hari was indeed a double agent. She was receiving $500 a month m the-French government, - well asa bonus for particularly useful {nformation. 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