Georges Ladoux
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Georges Ladoux (Beauchastel, 21 March 1875 - Cannes, 20 April 1933[1]) was a French army major who served as the head of the Deuxième Bureau, the French military intelligence agency during World War I, from 1914. He was responsible for recruiting[2][3] Mata Hari as a French spy, whom he met in Vittel in 1916. Ladoux was later arrested for being a double agent himself, but eventually cleared of all charges.
Biography
[edit]The son of an officer, Georges Ladoux attended École spéciale militaire de Saint-Cyr (1893–1895). He also graduated from the École supérieure de guerre (1904–1906).
As a captain, he commanded the 5th Deuxième Bureau of Intelligence and Counterintelligence from August 1914 to February 9, 1917, and then the Second Bureau of Counterintelligence at General Headquarters from February 9, 1917, to October 1917.[4]
On September 2, 1916, in Vittel, he met Mata Hari at a field hospital where she was visiting a man named Vadim Maslov, a Russian captain wounded while serving France. He offered her a job with the French Armed Forces, and she agreed to spy on the German High Command in Belgium[5] in exchange for one million francs (which she would never receive).
He had also sent Marthe Richard to Madrid to counter the German intelligence services.
In 1917, he was accused of collaborating in the espionage case involving Congressman Louis Turmel; he was later cleared of all suspicion.
Further reading
[edit]- Ladoux, Georges (1932). Marthe Richard, the Skylark: The Foremost Woman Spy of France. Cassell.
- Shipman, Pat (2007). Femme Fatale: Love, Lies and the Unknown Life of Mata Hari. New York: William Morrow. ISBN 978-0-06-081728-2.
- "She likes to be on top – The William J. Donovan Institute for Global Strategic Intelligence". The Donovan Institute. September 29, 2019. Archived from the original on 19 October 2022. Retrieved 19 October 2022.
- Ladoux, Georges (1933). Commandant Ladoux, ancien chef des services de renseignements et de contre-espionnage de l'état-major de l'armée. L'Espionne de l'Empereur, scènes de guerre secrète. 1913 ... 1933 (in French). fr:Librairie des Champs-Élysées.
References
[edit]- ↑ "Ladoux, Captor of Mata Hari, Famous Spy, Dies". San Pedro News Pilot. California Digital Newspaper Collection. 22 April 1933. Retrieved 19 October 2022.
- ↑ "Mata Hari: Sexy photographs of the original femme fatale". DangerousMinds. 7 October 2016. Retrieved 19 October 2022.
- ↑ "The Death of Mata Hari — Inside the Tragic Story of the First World War's Most Celebrated Spy". Military History Now. 15 October 2020. Retrieved 19 October 2022.
- ↑ "Georges Ladoux (1875-1933) - Auteur - Ressources de la Bibliothèque nationale de France". data.bnf.fr.
- ↑ "Mata Hari, espionne ou victime ?". monsite.com.
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