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Mary Bancroft
Mary Bancroft (October 29, 1903, Boston – January 10, 1997, New York City〔) was an American novelist and spy and a member of the Bancroft family, which at one time owned Dow Jones & Company. In 1942, while living in Switzerland, Bancroft was recruited by the Office of Strategic Services, and both worked and had a romantic relationship with Allen Dulles. Her most important work was with Hans Bernd Gisevius, a German military intelligence officer who supplied her with details of the 20 July plot to assassinate Hitler. After the war, Bancroft settled in New York and became a novelist.〔
==Life==
Born in Boston〔Simone Payment (2003), ''(American Women Spies of World War II )'', Rosen Publishing Group, pp78-83〕 and brought up there by her stepgrandfather Clarence W. Barron, Bancroft studied at Smith College in Massachusetts, but dropped out after a year.〔Godfrey Hodgson, ''The Independent'', February 17, 1997, (Obituary: Mary Bancroft )〕 After divorcing her first husband Sherwin Badger she went on a boat trip to Europe in summer 1933 together with her friend Ruth Paine,〔Mary Bancroft (1983), ''(Autobiography Of A Spy )'', pp54-55, p59〕 where she met a Swiss accountant, Jean Rufenacht, who became her second husband.〔 She moved to Zurich, Switzerland in 1934, where she learned excellent French and German,〔 and became a close friend and student of Carl Jung, who cured her of chronic attacks of sneezing.〔James Srodes (2000), ''(Allen Dulles: Master of Spies )'', Regnery Publishing, p273〕
Following the US entry into World War II, Bancroft was recruited by the Office of Strategic Services, although she was not initially aware of the fact, being asked by a US Embassy contact to write analyses of German policy based on German public sources for Swiss and American newspapers.〔〔Elizabeth P. McIntosh (1998), ''(Sisterhood of Spies: The Women of the OSS )'', Naval Institute Press, p178〕 She was then introduced to Allen Dulles in Zurich in December 1942 and went on to have a romantic relationship with him, based on Dulles' proposition that "We can let the work cover the romance, and the romance cover the work."〔 Dulles assigned Bancroft to work with Hans Bernd Gisevius, a German military intelligence officer who supplied her with details of the planned 20 July plot to assassinate Hitler; Bancroft soon developed a romantic relationship with Gisevius too.〔Robert McG. Thomas, Jr., ''New York Times'', January 19, 1997, (Mary Bancroft Dead at 93; U.S. Spy in World War II )〕〔 After the war, with her relationship with Dulles cooling, Bancroft became close friends with Dulles' wife Clover, who told her she was aware of their relationship and approved.〔 She remained close friends with Clover until the latter's death in 1974.〔James Srodes (2000), ''(Allen Dulles: Master of Spies )'', Regnery Publishing, p340〕
After the war Bancroft settled in New York and became close friends with Henry Luce. She became "a leading champion of Jung's psychology in the United States",〔 lecturing on the subject and publishing articles in academic journals.〔〔 She also published several novels in the 1950s, and an autobiography in 1983.
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