Large film producers know that now everything related to female empowerment has a good reception among the public.And just as we had a version of the ghostbusters and a delivery of the line of the ocean thieves starring actresses, now it is the time of espionage, an area where fiction has created one of the great clichés of the masculinity of the twentieth century andpart of the XXI: James Bond.On the other hand, when talking about spies women who comes to mind is Mata Hari, a name that has become synonymous with femme fatale.However, the film has the virtue of claiming and publicizing another character: Agent 355, a woman who was under George Washington during the War of Independence.Still now it is not known for sure what its identity was, but it is suspected that it was part of an important colonial family and that took advantage of their relatives' contacts with the supporters of the British empire to get information that she then passed to the separatists.

Without moving from North America, during the civil war there were also women who highlighted.The most famous was Belle Boyd, who spied to the Confederates.His base of operations was the hotel that his father had in Fort Royal (Virginia).There, often part of the General Staff of the Army of the Union met and, according to its memoirs, it was hidden in the wardrobe of the room where the meetings were held and thus learned the attack plans to pass them to the Sudist army.

One of the most extraordinary figures in that world was Yoshiko Kawashima.Born in 1907 in Beijing, she was a princess of the Qing dynasty but by Rocambolesques Azares de la Vida would end in Japan, working as a spy of the country of the rising sun during the Sino-Japanese war first and World War II after.

Although in the West it is not well known, in Asia it is a very popular character, to which all kinds of books and movies have been dedicated.There are not enough pages in this newspaper to tell your biography in detail.Given for adoption following the death of his father, he was repeatedly raped by his stepfather and when he turned 18, he let the family know that he was never a woman again.Consistent with his decision, he cut his hair like a soldier and started dressing only male clothes.Taking advantage of its aristocratic origins, it was related to the most outstanding personalities of Manchuria and Mongolia to obtain information.In addition, he entered into combat on several occasions, coming to command a contingent of 5.000 men to chase the independentistas Manchúes.At the end of World War II, with the Japanese defeat, she was arrested in China and was executed in 1948.Many times it is usually called the Mata Hari de Oriente, for the vital similarities and the tragic shared final.

Who also died early was the Polish spy Krystyna Sharbek.Born in 1908, he was part of the British Executive Operations (SOE), created during World War II.She was the first woman to take action on the ground and her incursions in both Poland and France occupied by the Nazis immediately became legendary.The most prominent mission was the release of two spies (men) detained in Germany.He got it negotiating and bribing a boss of the Gestapo.

Sharbek's courage and resolutive capacity caused those responsible for the SOE to recruit more women, but none came to their level.Finished the war withdrew and lived in London until in 1952, at 44, a stalker who had obsessed her stabbed her, causing death.For more spies they were, they could not escape from being raped and killed, like any other woman in the world.And this does not come out in the movies.