Few existing archival records or secondary sources appear to narrate or describe the circumstances, relationships, and activities of “spy wives” during the Second World War. Intelligence historians currently find themselves at a turning point, where new approaches to the writing of intelligence history have been called for that transcend the study of operations and policy, while drawing when necessary upon the methodologies of such adjacent disciplines as social history and historical geoinformatics. It is therefore surely appropriate to conduct an examination of the hitherto neglected social phenomenon of female agency in the “spyscape” of wartime British and German covert operations. Through an examination of case studies of individual wives of intelligence operatives, constructed on the basis of information gathered from scattered primary and secondary sources, it is possible to assemble and analyse a wide, highly differentiated range of gender relationships at the intersection of the manifest and secret worlds.

在第二次世界大战期间，很少有现有的档案记录或第二手资料来叙述或描述“间谍妻子”的情况，关系和活动。情报历史学家当前发现自己处于一个转折点，在这种情况下，人们已呼吁采用新的情报史写作方法来超越对运筹学和政策的研究，同时在必要时利用诸如社会历史和历史地理信息学等相邻学科的方法论。因此，在战时英德两国秘密行动的“间谍”中，对女性机构迄今为止被忽视的社会现象进行研究无疑是适当的。通过对情报人员妻子的个案研究，