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EXCLUSIVE: THE PRINCESS SPY
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EXCLUSIVE Beautiful daughter of an Indian mystic, a secret agent in
occupied France, tortured by the Gestapo, shot in the head by the SS

By Ann Gripper

BLOODIED and beaten, with a gun held to her head, the beautiful young
woman still defied her brutal SS captor.

Like every interrogator before, he had failed to break her spirit.

Now standing over her naked body in a lonely wood outside Dachau
concentration camp, Wilhelm Ruppert brought the courageous war of
"Agent Madeleine" to a bloody end.


Noor Inayat Khan
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Noor Anayat Khan: The princess who became a spy
http://enjoyment.independent.co.uk/books/features/article346472.ece

She was a Sufi pacifist who fought for Britain and died at the hands of
the Gestapo. As a new biography separates truth from myth, Boyd Tonkin
celebrates the remarkable Noor Anayat Khan

Published: 20 February 2006

This is the story of a young Indian Muslim woman who joined a secret
organisation dedicated to acts of sabotage, subversion and terrorism
across Europe. A fierce critic of British imperialism, she worked with
passion and audacity to damage and disrupt the forces of law and order.
Captured, she proved impenitent and uncontrollable. She died a horrific
death in custody. And now, perhaps, is the right time to revisit the
life of Princess Noor-un-nisa Inayat Khan, George Cross, Croix de
Guerre with gold star, MBE: the British secret agent who was kicked
into a "bloody mess" on the stone floors of Dachau concentration camp
through the night of 13 September 1944, and then shot with the word
"Libert=E9" on her lips. Hers, after all, is a remarkable chapter in the
history of Muslims in Britain and the West.

For more than half a century, myths, misconceptions and outright
fantasies have crowded around the memory of Noor Inayat Khan. She was
the first female radio operator sent into Nazi-occupied France by the
Special Operations Executive (SOE). Through the frantic, terrifying
summer of 1943, the untried 29-year-old spy found herself virtually in
charge of Resistance communications in the Paris area as the Gestapo
arrested cell after cell around her. The daughter of a famous Sufi
mystic and musician, and an Indianised American mother, she was
remembered by all as a "dreamy", sensitive child. Yet Noor the spy
became a tigress whose bravery and defiance startled - and outraged -
her German jailers and torturers. A few responded differently. When
told during his postwar interrogation about her death in Dachau, Hans
Josef Kieffer - head of the Gestapo headquarters in Paris - apparently
broke down in tears.