did they occasionally fight? yes, occasionally. what they would stand up to his violence and lynching. they would rarely take it. that was outside of their organization. that didn't have anything -- that wasn't about the ga are. i found many prominent union veterans had been involved, did try to fight it outside. justice harlan who made the great dissent to the plessy was a union veteran. not within the organization itself wouldn't do it. part of that, it wasn't history. in some states the ga are disappeared in the 1870's. everyone said it was close -- because of their close political ties. a is said of we're not about politics. we are about -- it is about the pension. getting the veterans what they deserve. prof. gallagher: your name is

checked on this one. how much did the lost cause. influence textbooks in writing southern hip history? >> there is one answer that it does influence the textbook southerners wrote. they made an effort to write textbooks that would preserve the southern, white southern interpretation of the war. two things to keep in mind. the majority of southerners white or black, were not getting much history in public schools in the south to begin with. they just didn't go to school long enough. high schools, and most of the south, high schools don't emerge until the end of the century except for major towns and cities. it is not as though these textbooks were going to be widely used anyways.

beyond that there is the problem that southern state governments never compelled anyone to use specific textbooks. they would have recommended list. they didn't impose them. they didn't have the bureaucracy to do that type of work. throughout the 19th and 20th century there are instances of the udc being uphold high school teachers and roanoke where there was a high school assigned a textbook written by a yankee that provided in an excepted interpretation of the civil war. they mind intimidate that teacher into not using that book, or in a few cases in colleges they were able to do that. it was always a kind of ad hoc action. there was no way to control the textbooks being used

effectively. the short answer is they did their best to control the type of history southerners would have learned. white and black. there were serious obstacles. the final one, the publishing trade was then in the north. you could get a publisher to publish a book with that isn't anybody was going to use it. new york was the center of the publishing trade. new york and boston. prof. gallagher: the last fight was about a history of virginia textbooks. it had a very lost cause slavery was benign institution confederate heroes were the real heroes, so forth. that played out very late here. >> if you're as old as i am, i remember that book vividly. fourth grade virginia history. i remember the cover of the book

vividly. prof varon: for african-american soldiers allowed to be buried in the cemeteries? prof varon: yes. for the most part. one of the remarkable things is they are the first publicly funded integrated cemeteries. the part that is not always there is a soldiers were buried in separate sections. segregated sections. in mississippi they are buried with the unknown. there's a quarter of the ceremony -- cemetery they are buried with the unknown. prof varon: all right. this could have followed our american west question.

did secession expedite the settlement of the american west? >> the answer is yes. all you have to do is look at a map on when were admitted into the union in the west after the war. the almost all were. it was a stunning development. the planes and prairie states had roughly one million people. by 1890, 11 million. streams from europe, and the country itself, to get manage of the homestead act. to get manage of the railroads to bring them there, the transcontinental railroad. it was an explosion of settlement, and with the states

the territories becoming states, they were added to the republican party, mostly. that is another reason why the republican party was not as committed to ensuring african-americans presence in the southern states, making the southern states a place where black people could vote as well as white people. they didn't need the south anymore. prof glymph: one of the problems , you have this settlement, but not rapid transition from territory to state. actually, it takes 36 years, 46 years, 45 years for these new territories to become states. what we see is the u.s. learned a very important lesson in making the south, breaking it

off into five military districts. how to remake the nation. part of that remaking of the nation was transferred to the west. these states, we make them wait decades before they can come in. >> is worth mentioning there are multiple different narratives going on. there are things created by the end of the civil war in the union victory, and they removal of violence. there's one narrative policies that have little to do with the civil war, including the land-grant act. the third narrative is if you had no civil war, you have the technology moving along anyway you still would have had movement west. the timing tells us one story. it is not all clear that is about the civil war.

prof. gannon: the republicans became dominant because the democrats left. they were not going to pass a homestead act. >> the republicans set the stage for western development. prof glymph: the debate over the secession, what took place in kansas and nebraska, over whether the country would be open for free labor or slave labor, free labor was a motivating factor in this war and a very important component of the platform. they were eager to unleash the energy after the war. prof varon: the question from the audience.

they ask us to think about the degree to which the civil war is appealing to today's youth. why are they interested in the civil war? do we accept that premise? we were commenting on the centennial audiences. they tend to be adults, and relatively few young people. i've noticed that as i have given talks. at the same time i think we find students are very hungry for civil war courses at the university level. any musings about reaching out to young people? whether we have done it well? what we might do? >> one of the notions is the demographics are changing in the united states. it has taken for granted the interest in the civil war that one always be there.

>> i think that if ucla students are any indication, when you have great stories, a dramatic story, a tragic story, a revolutionary story, all welded into four years, it is dynamite. i often say i teach large classes at ucla. i have lots of students with the last name of leave. they come from south korea. [laughter] they are very disappointed when they are not related to robert e lee. annoyingly continues to hold their imaginations more than u.s. grant, as much as i try. in any case, i think it is mostly the drama of the story the issues, and it is relevant to today to understanding the american of today and the struggles we continue to have with the issues that royal the

country during civil war including race. prof. gannon: i do reasonably well engaging students. i go out of my way to make everything visual. today's young people, they want to see stuff. i have classes with battle animations, a silly john stuart -- jon stewart. i don't know what it is. digitizing is changing their brains. you have to be visual. >> i can't let that slide. i show no visuals. not even overheads. i don't even have 19th-century. they get up in :00 in the morning and come here about the civil war. >> they think you are funny.

[laughter] it doesn't work for everyone. [laughter] [inaudible] >> i teach it in the midst university of mississippi. i've never had a civil war class not filled to capacity. they are very much involved. very much aware that it is not just the civil war, it is reconstruction that is responsible for the society in which they live. my first semester was this idea that i would go in and do a week on how the coming of the war then i would do most of the class on the war, and reconstruction at the end. one comment i got was more reconstruction. the war is important. lee is important.

it is the reconstruction era which is most responsible for the world in which they live in. >> over the last four years i've hold my undergraduates -- polled my undergraduates. not a single student has attended a single sesquicentennial events. they go to classes on civil war. they need to take classes. they like that. as far as going to the sesquicentennial events, several hundred students not a single one has attended an event. there is a separation, i think. >> maybe you need to be older and more mature. [laughter] >> me? >> your kids. >> how much older do i have to

be? >> i meant your students. prof varon: we are going to wrap things up and adjourn them. we thank you for your attention and excellent questions. booksignings. [applause] we are going together for booksignings. we hope you will come. >> it's in the full year. we would like to thank cheryl and the staff who made this possible. >> you're watching american

history tv, 48 hours of american history tv programming every weekend on c-span3. follow us on twitter for a schedule of upcoming programs and to keep up with the latest history news. up next on american history tv, natalie zanin tells the story of amy thorpe pack, the wife of a diplomat who became a spy. she used her charm, beauty, and sex to gain valuable intelligence during the spanish civil war and world war ii. she stole naval codes from an embassy allied with the nazis all while in the nude. this is about an hour. director: imd executive director of the spy museum and i am delighted to have you here for what will be an interesting program.

it happened in most of our lifetimes. and i think it will resonate with you quite a bit. our speaker this morning is natalie zanin. we have worked with her at the museum before. she is a writer, director, producer of educational tours in washington. she does those are and children's programs and she has codeveloped these spy museum city tour of the city, which we are doing in partnership with great line and is now on demand. -- great land -- gray line and is now on demand. folks who are interested, that can certainly be booked. she is featured in a number of publications -- the post, the times. she has been on the history channel, canadian television, a number of others.

she is and has been the director for silver spring and for inclusive theater. and she has been working a longtime on this particular case. so, natalie, we are very glad to have you here. please join me in welcoming natalie zanin. [applause] natalie: that was a wonderful introduction. thank you, peter. good morning, good morning. yes, i am natalie zanin. i'm going to be talking to you about cynthia. or codename sent you. this is a very interesting woman. she lived a very exciting woman. i kept seeing it in terms of a

screenplay, so i started writing one. how do you build a spy. -- how do you build a spy? how do you create a spy? if you were to go into a laboratory and put it into a machine to contact -- concoct a spy, you could not do much better than cynthia. all of the elements are there. she was born amy elizabeth thorpe in minneapolis, minnesota. she said she was of irish-scandinavian heritage on her father's side and mixed french-canadian and bavarian on her mother's side. as a child, amy had a relative named aunt amy who lived with the family. to avoid confusion the family started calling her elizabeth and then betty. she liked betty. her father was george cyrus thorpe. he was a captain in the marines who served with distinction. her mother was cora wells

thorpe, the daughter of senator harry wells. she was an educated woman. and she did not mix well with the rest of minneapolis society, which she may have sometimes felt she was above them. she studied at columbia and the sorbonne and the university of munich. she was often referred to by little betty as cold and aloof. in fact, it was difficult for laura to display affection to her family. when i picture her now, i picture a cross between margaret dumont from the marx brothers films and the dowager countess from "downton abbey."

a little less friendly, perhaps. [laughter] it is 1910. george is stationed in maine. he is commanding the naval base and portsmouth. amy has a brother george born in 1914. betty's childhood is interesting. she liked being outside. she liked to run through the maine woods. she says she often felt as though she was built around aloneness. but that was most comfortable for her. she would hide among the pine trees in the maine woods. she would hear the water nearby. and she would stay there for hours and hours. sometimes all day into the evening. the family in the beginning got worried and would look for her and then after a while, they alerted the local police. the police officers knew the woods, they knew where the child would hide, so they would go out

and find her, bring her back to the family in the evening. she would spend her days in the woods. that did not seem to bother cora. it was a different time. betty never had a best friend. never really confided in anybody. her father was often away. and there she was with cora and her siblings. cora again, unable to hug the children or tell them that she loved them. did not seem comfortable at all with the children. betty sought escape. now in 1914, betty and her siblings stayed with cora in rhode island. george was posted at the navy war college in annapolis and later brown university. in the 1960's, washington, d.c.. washington, d.c. was a social world for the thorpe family.

the children liked it a lot. george is posted to cuba. as she is making preparations to follow him to cuba, she arrives to find he has been shipped to south america. wonderful. this does not sit well with her. picture margaret dumont now. she decides to stay in cuba where she stays until 1919. george in south america. that worked well. eventually she takes the children to florida. they returned to washington, d.c. betty begins keeping a diary of her day-to-day activities. went to the library of congress. it is all marble and paintings. george and cora moved and powerful social circles in washington. there was a lovely party given

by vice president coolidge and his wife. betty observed interacting with the social set here. she observes that good manners are actually rather useful to hide behind. this is a skill that will serve her later in life. betty now seeks to feel excitement. she is bored. any kind of excitement. even fear. she wrote, i remember when we were very young, i always meant -- ran past the finish line and ran and ran and ran until i dropped, half strangled when my endurance ran out. i just could not stop before that. my brother george would say, you are crazy. you are crazy, he would shout. why don't you stop? but betty could not stop. that was 1921.

george is posted to hawaii. he is in command of the marines there. the thorpes begin to write magazine articles while in hawaii. cora writes a book of stories about pacific island full -- folk tales that is rather well-received. betty watches and decides to start writing herself. she begins with an article about her family background. she calls it "days bygone." it's not really a family history though. when you look at it, it is really about a ball that george attended. but she is only nine or 10 at this point. and then she decides to write a more detailed story. the story is quite good. george hires an illustrator and he has it printed.

it is a beautiful tale of a girl living on the streets of naples with her blind father. poor theoretta. when her father becomes ill, she sings in the streets to earn bread. an imprecise overhears the lovely voice -- an impressario overhears the lovely voice, and she is made a famous soprano. it is a great little story. this slide you see is a photo of betty taken to illustrate theoretta. "the sun had not yet cast its sunset robe over naples but it was sinking fast behind that ancient piece of beauty which nature had so thoughtfully bestowed upon the earth." it is great stuff for an 11-year-old. it is good. betty is already becoming a beautiful girl. the book, which is printed only for family and friends, finds

its way to washington. in 1923, betty's family comes to washington. george is retired. they are making a grand tour of europe and when they tour, betty studies french at the institution above lake geneva. betty is bored at school. she chafes at the routine. she gets into several dustups with the principals over her rebelliousness. she is said to be a bad influence on the other students. her french was flawless. points to her for that. she spent the next few years at private schools. she preferred solitude. she had a careless disregard for conventions and rules and is

asked to leave one of the schools. she is a blonde and beautiful girl. she is coming into her looks now. she writes in her diary "my looks are better than i had hoped. god was kind in that, at least." i have to agree. i think she is stunning. the thorpes are summering in rhode island. they attend parties and a host parties at their summer home. it is at one of these google gatherings that betty meets a handsome young man of 21. his family is out of the social register. -- is part of the social register. she will never name and in her diaries. i cannot give you his name for i do not know it and i have looked. she is smitten by this young man. she wrote, "i imagine myself in

love with him. we were both lonely and met only twice before the love affair was over." she was only 14. she claimed she was a seduced by her amour, but she also wrote, "life is but a stage upon which to play. one's role is to pretend and always hide one's true feelings." now she has a secret she cannot even share with her diary. thus the spy is being created. what does a spy do? hold secrets, pass them on to their handlers. keep up a false front, never reveal your true feelings. mission comes above yourself. this is a good training ground for her. the family returns to washington from the summer home. george establishes a firm specializing in maritime cases. betty becomes well-known. not only is she stunning but she is a charming girl. she has learned how to flirt.

her little private book about the lonely and lovely-voiced girl from naples has been read by diplomats and the italian embassy. they adore her. they make a fuss over her. the italian naval attaché, in his 40's then, is especially intrigued and calls her his golden girl. they may have been only friends. i cannot find if they were lovers. but she revels in the attention from this charming italian. one day, she is sunning beside a pool in washington. she catches the eye of arthur pack. he apparently never got over that first glance. he was a commercial secretary at the embassy. she also flirts with a handsome spaniard at a country club. just a moment as they gaze at each other while watching a tennis match.

it sparks something in betty. as he left the club, the spaniard bowed dramatically. as we know, sometimes that is all it takes. gentlemen, take note. she begins to write in her diary that this young man, this mysterious spaniard, is her true love. all of the restlessness she felt before she pours into feelings for this man she has really only spoken with once. and barely spoken with at that. it is interesting. she is going to be presented to society. this is an important part. she has to make a good presentation. the year is 1929. she will be primed. by thorpe standards, this meant the right kind of husband.

betty has an affair with a man she does not name in her diary over the christmas holiday in 1929. then, she goes to tea at her parents' home. she meets arthur pack again. he remembers that first glance he had ever at the swimming pool. she writes in her diary -- and i wonder if this was written to arthur or the affair she had with the unnamed man. she writes, "i think i cannot understand the depth of wanting unfulfilled desire and hating you to touch my hand when embers die where once there was a fire." now there is a party where arthur and betty are houseguests

in 1929. he walks into his room late at night, tired, just wants to sleep. he turns on the light and finds betty in his bed, naked. he told his friend he was surprised to find her there. [laughter] i'll bet he was. they were married april 29 1930. this was a good marriage by cora's standards. he is from the british embassy in and outstanding. at the wedding, betty was four months pregnant. was this arthur's or the child of the unnamed man she had the affair with? when arthur finds out that she is pregnant and she kept it from him as long as she could, he is furious.

and he is terrified. this is 1930. a man whose young wife is pregnant at the wedding could derail his career. like something out of "downton abbey," arthur insists betty try to lose the child. this is in betty's words. she wrote later that arthur insisted she ride on horseback very fast and jump off of stairs, run until she was exhausted. i find this a bit incongruous with betty's nature, however. i think this might be her looking back. betty was a very strong person and i cannot imagine her attempt to lose a child. when she sees her doctor, he

says ,"you will lose your child and you will die. you must take care of yourself." that is the end of it. she goes forward, has the baby. arthur insists no announcement will be made of little anthony george's birth. nine. -- none. in fact, they will not raise the child. a family will be found. they place a notice. a family is found. in the village of shropshire. they will raise the child. betty is never to see him again. arthur will not speak of the child. he will not visit the child. betty is heartsick over this. he insists this is the way it'll be. she makes visits to see the child. she tries to observe him from a distance.

she later visits the family. i'm not sure what little tony thought of her as he was growing up, this beautiful woman who came and played with him sometimes, brought him gifts. arthur takes no interest at all. at one point, the little boy wants to have a toy gun. betty tells arthur this that she will send him a toy gun. this is the only time arthur speaks about the child. "no. absolutely not." betty writes to the child and says sorry, she cannot send him the gift he wants. now, she has another secret to keep. she is becoming an expert at keeping secrets. no one knows the inner turmoil over her heartbreaking loss of the beautiful little boy. arthur is now transferred to

chile. betty embraces the tropics. she traveled there with her family when she was younger. she is grieving over the loss of little tony. she can throw herself into the social world. she is so angry with arthur. this is a secret she has to keep deep within herself. she is so angry with him over the loss of her child that she decides anything goes at this point. what can he possibly due to her at this point? she learns to play polo, speak spanish, she meets a handsome chilean named alfredo. they have an affair. it does not last long. she is out with friends and sees alfredo with a woman. later, she confronts him.

"oh, this is my official mistress. oops." "your official mistress? all right, we are done." she is done with him. he has an official mistress? no, no. she feels betrayed by him. she threw herself so much into the affair. you see in her writings that she really is pouring out her love for the little boy. it is at this point she becomes pregnant by arthur. a little girl named denise in 1934. she loves denise. she is swept up in the political turmoil. a right-wing, catholic government is in power. the country is heading towards national revolution.

betty feels unleashed. she feels the freedom to do what she pleases. she is officially mrs. arthur j pack. this is her photo from the presentation to the queen. she is dolled up to be presented. she is at a club one day in spain and sees a face she recognizes. he is a handsome spaniard. he is the same handsome spaniard from her childhood that she met so many years ago at that tennis match in washington.

she calls him antonio in her diaries, but in fact, he is senor carlos. they run into each other while she is with arthur. this is the man she loved for years and is now meeting him officially with her husband. she jokes in front of arthur "this is someone i had a crush on when i was younger." carlos responds, "we were terribly young and i'm sure you have forgotten about me." but she has not. they begin an affair. carlos is married. arthur is busy with work. at this point, betty does something rather interesting. she decides to become a

catholic. she says it is to please arthur. carlos is catholic so i have a feeling that might have pushed her in that direction. the embassy counselor encourages her to seek the counsel of a young priest to further her studies. the priest and betty meet. they have appropriate meetings. they converse daily about catholicism. it is during this point that betty and the counselor have to take an elevator to a meeting. he asks how her studies are going. she says it is going well. then, the elevator stops. there were frequent strikes in spain. one day, she tried to light a cigarette. the match would not strike and she turned to her friend and

said, "this is the only thing that won't strike in spain." he says, "i will use that in my newspaper." she and sir george are in the lift and it is stuck between floors. these are the days when there was no telephone in an elevator, of course. hours and hours go by. after a while, arthur notices betty has not come home. he goes to the place he knows the meeting will take place, sees the elevator is stuck arranges to have someone open the top of the elevator. sir george is not able to make the climb and spent the rest of the night in the elevator. betty goes on to meet with her young priest again. she notes he is handsome. one day, he request that she meet him in another part of town.

this is not suspicious to betty because priests are in great danger in spain at this time. they are arrested. -- priests have been arrested. it is understandable he is looking for what she thinks is a safer place to meet. she arrives and realizes it is a part of town where people meet for secret lovers meetings and now she is a bit suspicious. she climbs the stairs to the room. when she arrives to the apartment, he is out of habit. he is really out of habit. [laughter] but betty falls into old habits. he confesses he has fallen in love with her. they fall into bed but it is a

mild affair. she is still in love with carlos. she does not have an issue continuing an affair with the priest with the affair with carlos. the priest will leave the priesthood and wants to marry her. this is more complicated then she would wish. "you should stay a priest. i cannot leave my husband." any excuse she can use. the priest does not care. he is arrested. she does what she can to have him released from prison. she feels badly. this is a good out for betty because she encourages him to leave the area, leave spain for his own safety.

now she is done with this entanglement. war is eminent in spain. carlos, her lover, his wife comes to see betty one day. carlos has been arrested. he is in prison, they don't know where. his wife is hysterical, can't betty help her? i don't think his wife knew at this point that she was having an affair with carlos. betty does try to find him through her efforts. she is accused of espionage through these efforts by the generals military headquarters. she is not a spy at this point but this is the first time she is accused of espionage. she meets a man at the chancery in valencia. he is a very charming british man. he is very sympathetic to betty's plea to find carlos. she uses her charm on him. it works. they had a great encounter. betty was surprised by this encounter.

she went to meet john and she thought they would discuss finding carlos. he suddenly grabbed her, threw her on the bed, and they made love. betty was surprised but, you know -- [laughter] apparently, fine. he tells her he is madly in love with her. he does not care about his career. he wants only to be with betty. she has to work hard to convince him this affair is a mistake. he is in love with her. she goes to see arthur. he admits to her that he has had an affair. wife of a junior colleague. he wants to marry this woman he

calls maude. i could not find out her real name. no one noted it. now, it is 1937. arthur is being posted to war. -- to warsaw. john tried to follow betty and was told he could not under any circumstances by the british embassy -- arthur was furious when he found out that john meant to be with betty forever. arthur is strained, stressed. he is madly in love with maude. the stress over the affair, his marriage with betty unraveling he collapses. he continues working and collapses again. betty decides to wholeheartedly nurse him back to health. she cannot leave him now.

she will make sure he gets well. she sends him to england to recover and she returns. she refers to herself as a grass widow. she meets a young polish diplomat. they have an affair. [laughter] i know. they also discussed the german occupation of austria. they would drive to the banks of the river, sunbathe naked, make love alfresco, and discuss. [laughter] this is true. edward tells betty many things. "i love you, my darling. hitler intends to invade czechoslovakia." during the golf game, she tells jack what edward has told her

about hitler's plans. i don't think she told him about the alfresco lunches on the banks of the river but she says, i heard this. jack says, he is associated with the secret intelligence service. this news will be helpful to them. by march, 1938, she is actively gathering information. they encourage her to use her romance with edward to get more information. london instructs jack shelley to recruit her formally as an agent. they believe her charm will work well. she meets the colonel general in poland. soon, he is chatting freely about contacts in berlin and his

daily, secret communications with the polish foreign office. ah, betty. she is practically the only agent in poland providing intelligence. she notes it is easy to make highly trained her fashionably closed-mouthed patriots give away secrets in bed. she has the magnetism. she is producing information. she gives details on the polish crypto-analysis unit. she leaves for england and finds arthur recovered. he is going to chile. she wants to go back to poland. she writes that she is in love with michael. she wants to be with him.

in fact, not only that, she wants to continue working for sis. she loved doing this kind of work. it brings back the feeling she had a childhood of running until she was exhausted. she cannot go back to warsaw. her affair has made her a person of discussion there. she cannot return. she goes to chile with arthur. she wants to go back to sis. she decides she is kind of done with being a wife and mother. she leaves arthur and denise. she visits her mother in washington and learns a mr. howard is attempting to reach

her. she meets with this man in new york city. he calls himself john howard. mr. howard is a frequent alias in sis. when she meets with him in new york, he tells her she can be useful for them. he suggested she take a house or apartment in washington. he gives her a codename that will come directly from william stephenson, british secret intelligence.

"cynthia." she likes it. it suits her. he said she wanted to go to washington and rent a house. i think he preferred it would be an apartment, but a house is fine. a secluded street, not a lot of traffic. this house will be useful to betty. she is requested by mr. howard to contact alberto. she hears this name and says, i have known him since i was a child. he called me his golden girl. he is now the italian naval atache. betty calls them at the embassy. she says, it is your golden girl, alberto. he says, oh, i cannot talk to you now. later, she gets a call at the house. he says, yes i would like to see you, i do remember you. he comes to the house.

they have an affair. the affair consists mainly of them drinking fine, red wine talking. betty undressing. alberto lying next to her. the talk is what he mainly desires. betty responds. cynthia is a good listener. now she knows this is what he needs, just to talk. he needs to talk to a sympathetic, beautiful woman. that is fine with her. she asks him for something special. "can you get something for me?" i'm sure he is thinking, diamonds, chocolates, flowers. "no, i would like the italian

naval ciphers." "no, no. i cannot get those for you." "if you really think of me as her golden girl..." he gives her the name of a man. he is in love with her. she contacts the man and arranges for him to be paid for the naval codebooks to be copied and returned. at this point, she notices men sitting in a car outside the little house in georgetown. someone is watching her. someone notices that foreign visitors are coming to the

house. i am sure they can imagine what is going on inside. at one point, alberto says that the italians plan to scuttle their ships in harbors in the u.s. and blow them up. betty passes this information on and some of these plans are thwarted. the fbi will be an issue for betty. hoover writes " it is believed a discreet inquiry of miss pack may produce viable information." betty is asked to penetrate an embassy in washington and obtained the cipher codes. they will rely on her to use her usual methods. betty has come up with a cover. she is going to pose as a freelance writer, contact the

embassy. she looks at the embassy directory, picks out a name, a captain. she calls, asks to speak with him, gets a lower ranked person who says "no." he does not grant interviews. she says, i want to interview him, i'm a journalist. "no. you will not speak to bruce. he cannot arrange anything like that." this is perfect for betty. she waits an hour and calls again. again. this time, she gets the captain on the phone. she does a little flirting with him and says, i would like to interview you but i understand that is not something you are able to do.

he says, of course i can. absolutely. she gets the interview, has a two-hour interview. she meets. she chose her outfit very carefully. she wore a green dress to match her eyes. she used all of her flirting skills. interestingly, she seems more interested in the adache than the ambassador. -- the attache than the ambassador. once betty has turned that gays on you, it's hard to escape that magnetic pole -- turned that gaze on you, it's hard to escape

that magnetic pull. she receives roses at her georgetown home. not only roses, but he shows up the next afternoon. as he walks into her home, he swoops her in his arms and carries her upstairs. she protests mildly. "oh, what are you doing?" they make love in her bedroom and she becomes his mistress. there is an anti-british sentiment among the french and she knows that will not be effective if she lets on. the captain started working at the embassy in 1940 but served in the french air force in world war i, worked with the

anglo-french intelligence in world war ii. he had a newspaper string in france before she came to the embassy. what is happening now, it is officially the french state. vichy france. it is based in a small city in france but paris remains the official capital. vichy only controls the unoccupied zone in southern france. germany now occupies northern france and the regime posts this embassy to washington. first, the u.s. was not sure if they should recognize this regime. but they decide to do so. they are in a house on wyoming avenue.

that he is asked to establish arranged -- a relationship. it is a good working relationship. he doesn't know she works british intelligence. eventually, she tells him she is helping the americans. that sort of appeals to him. there is a problem now. remember, the fbi is watching her. they could unravel everything. what if they came to the house? they do. one day, when she was making love to alberto, the fbi knocked on the door. -- they are now -- they are now in a house on wyoming avenue. it is a good working relationship. -- she had to let him out and upstairs window. he climbed onto the garage roof. he is hanging onto the roof and drops to the ground. betty is worried about this happening again. she does not want this to happen