Cold-blooded female spies may not be common in real life. However, if women are "poisoned" like men, they may be more likely to succeed under the cover of beauty.
The BBC counted the five most cruel female assassins in history, including a China woman who avenged her father. See how many you know.
1. The famous double agent mata hari.
Mata Hari was probably one of the most famous beauty spies during the First World War .. 1876 was born in the Netherlands, good at dancing and active on the stage in major European cities such as Milan and Paris.
Her story was made into a movie by Hollywood. As a well-known social butterfly in the early 20th century, Marta had an affair with politicians and celebrities in many European countries during the First World War.
Because she often shuttled between Europe, the Germans asked her to provide allied information of France, Britain and other allies. At the same time, it is reported that during World War I, the allied camps such as France and Britain also asked her to act as a spy for them and provide information for the allied camps such as Germany.
Although Marta herself did not assassinate anyone, it is said that as many as 50 thousand soldiers were killed because of her espionage.
19 17 The French began to doubt Marta's loyalty. Marta was arrested in Paris and shot by the French army on charges of being a German spy.
2. Shi Jianqiao, a female assassin in China who revenges her father.
Shi Jianqiao, whose real name is Shi Gulan, was born in 1906. In order to avenge her father, she changed her name to Shi Jianqiao.
Her father, Shi Congbin, was beheaded by the then warlord Sun in 1925. 10 years later, Sun lived in seclusion and devoted himself to studying Buddhism. His legal name is Zhiyuan, and he is charitable.
1935 One day in September of the lunar calendar, Sun came to Jushilin to listen to Buddhist scriptures. Shi Jianqiao seized the opportunity and shot Sun at close range with a prepared Browning pistol.
After killing Sun, Shi Jianqiao did not escape. Instead, he distributed leaflets telling the public that he was avenging his father and demanding surrender.
The case was a sensation in Tianjin at that time, and major media rushed to report it. Shi Jianqiao is also known as a heroine among women and a heroine who revenges her father. Many people sympathize with her experience and call for leniency.
1936, Shi Jianqiao was sentenced to seven years in prison by the imperial court, but after Feng Yuxiang and others came forward to plead for help, Shi Jianqiao was pardoned on the grounds that she was practicing filial piety. Shijianqiao died in 1979.
3. Charlotte Cordé, the black boy in the bathroom (charlotte corday 1768- 1793)
Charlotte Cordé was born into a noble family in France. She took an active part in the French Revolution and fought for a free, equal and fraternity France. Cordé has always hated radical and violent jacobins, preferring moderate gironde.
Jean-Paul Marat was the leader of jacobins at that time. 1September 5, 793 to1July 28, 794, 16594 people were guillotined in France, which is also called the reign of terror. Cordé believed that the misfortune of the Republic was rooted in Mara.
Cordé thinks that Mara should bear the main responsibility, and he should be put to death.
Mara has been working in the cellar for a long time to escape the persecution of the opposition, so she is seriously wet. In order to relieve the pain, he has to soak in the bathtub with medicine every day to work.
Cordé claimed that he had a list of traitors and was allowed to see Mara. When they met, Mara was soaking in the bathtub, and Cordé stabbed Mara to death directly in the bathtub. She said that killing Mara was to save thousands of people.
But Cordé was guillotined four days later and died at the age of 24.
4. Bridget Mohnhot, the terrorist killer of the German "Red Army Brigade"
Moine Haupt was once considered as the most evil and dangerous German woman. She was born in 1949 and is still alive.
She is an important member of the Red Army Brigade, a far-left terrorist organization in Germany. The organization instigated a series of kidnappings, assassinations and explosions in West Germany in the 1960s and 1970s.
Under the banner of anti-capitalism and anti-imperialism, these ultra-left German youths launched a series of arson and explosions in West Germany (Federal Republic of Germany) at that time. More than 30 people, including the president of Siemens, the president of Deutsche Bank and other business giants and judicial dignitaries, have become victims of terrorist activities.
1982, Moine Haupt was arrested. She was sentenced to five life sentences. However, in 2007, a German court granted Moine Haupt early release.
This decision has caused widespread controversy. So far, Moine Haupt has never expressed any remorse or cooperated with the authorities.
5. Penelope, the female assassin next door.
Ali Hassan Salamai, the leader of Palestinian Black September 1972, took 1 1 Israeli athletes hostage during the Munich Olympic Games and then killed them.
Mossad, the Israeli intelligence agency, launched "Operation Natural Disaster" in retaliation for the Munich massacre. Mossad agents locked in the members of Black September one by one.
However, it is very difficult to assassinate Salamai. He himself successfully escaped five attempted murders, but finally 1979 was killed by a car bomb outside his apartment in Beirut with his four bodyguards.
It is believed that the person who set off the bomb was a Mossad female agent Penny Lop. In fact, Penelope lives near Salamai and even swims in the same swimming pool, trying to make friends with Salamai.
After the explosion, Penelope mysteriously disappeared from her residence, leaving all her personal belongings, including a British passport named Erica Chambers.