Agent A is responsible for formulating the national strategic intelligence picture on global terrorism and other issues concerning the Arab world. She will be responsible for managing hundreds of employees in the collection, research, and analysis of intelligence.

Female spies and secret agents carried out some of history’s most brave and duplicitous missions, from the English Civil War to World War 2, using everything in their power to gather information and risking everything for a cause or causes they believed in.

Lydia Dean Pilcher’s film is one of the first attempts to capture the lesser-known story of World War II female spies.

Here are some women who fearlessly stepped into the enemy territory without a second thought.