SPY CYNTHIA'S LAST CHAPTER SADDEST

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP75-00149R000200070010-5
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: November 11, 2016
• Document Release Date: March 25, 1999
• Sequence Number: 10
• Publication Date: December 10, 1963
• Content Type: NSPR

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Spy Cynthia's Last Chapter Sadder
C PJ3 l kI TA eNair
f her husband and a
paid" read the news dis-
atch yesterday announcing
"
e death of
`Cynthia,"
ne of Brit-
in's great
World W a r
I spies.
A nd so the
final chapter
n the life of
Washington
ebutante
as ended. Mrs. McNair
Cynthia
as Betty Thorpe, honey.
haired blue-eyed daughter
of the late Col. and Mrs.
George C. Thorpe. For those
of us who remember her it
as inconceivable that she
could become involved in
high level intrigue. And yet,
erhaps it wasn't. She was
intelligent, dignified and
beautiful.
Arthur :Pack, Commercial
Counselor of the British
Embassy here, fell in love
with her and not long after
their marriage they were
transferred to Chile. They
had a daughter, Denise.
She made a trip to Lon-
don "on business" in 1940
and stopped off in Havana
to attend a Pan American
conference. Then she joined
or mother here.
Her spy activities for the
llies began here at that
ime and she met Charles
rousse, a French journal-
st and Press Attache for
France's wartime Vichy gov-
rnment. They worked to-
ether and were married at
he end of the war.
CPYRGHT
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