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Kathleen Maria Margaret Sissmore, MBE (1898–1982), was known as Jane Sissmore and then Jane Archer after her marriage in 1939. In 1929 she became the first female officer in Britain's Security Service, MI5, and was still their only woman officer at the time of her dismissal for insubordination in 1940. She had been responsible for ...
At the outbreak of war, the Security Service had only one such officer: Jane Archer (nee Sissmore), its main Soviet expert, who married the Service's RAF liason officer, Wing Commander John "Joe" Archer, during the lunch-hour on the day before war was declared.
23 de ene. de 2019 · Jane Archer née Sissmore. Jane Archer was arguably the first woman to achieve real distinction in MI5 and Christopher Andrew writes about her at some length in ‘The Defence of the Realm’....
Kathleen Maria Margaret Sissmore, later known as Jane Sissmore and then Jane Archer after her marriage in 1939, was the fifth woman admitted to Gray’s Inn on October 17, 1921.
Jane Sissmore, who joined MI5 as a sixteen-year-old secretary straight from school in 1916, progressed so rapidly that by 1924 she had qualified as a barrister and become MI5’s...
Drawing on extensive research and unique access to family archives, Claire portrays many of these remarkable figures—including the brilliant, multi-lingual Lunn sisters, glamorous spy Olga Gray; and Jane Sissmore, MI5’s first female officer— and reconsiders the priceless contributions they made.
Archer, Jane (née Sissmore). Married to Wing Commander Jo Archer of MI5. Joined MI5, 1923. Dismissed for insubordination in 1940, and joined SIS where she handled Irish affairs. Described by the Soviet agent Kim Philby as one of the two ablest officers he encountered in British intelligence (the other being Guy Liddell).
