Rita Pyman didn’t answer a spy ad. She answered a secretarial ad and ended up inside Britain’s wartime intelligence machine in New York. That’s how quiet some real spy stories begin.Dr Claire Hubbard-Hall | The Spy Historian (@thespyhistorian)Rita Pyman was just 18 years old and living in #Toronto when she responded to a newspaper advertisement seeking women for secretarial work in a British government department in New York.
The war was on, and the job was with the British Security Co-ordination (BSC), a secret espionage and propaganda service that represented the interests of MI5, MI6, SOE, and PWE in the western hemisphere.
The BSC may have had a boring-sounding name, but it masked an extraordinary group of men and women.
This is Rita’s #WW2 story [a thread]…— https://x.com/thespyhistorian/status/2069803821627224400
