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Jane Sissmore. Kathleen Maria Margaret Sissmore, OBE (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.
Jan 23, 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 chief...
Mar 10, 2020 · I have a long-held admiration for Jane Archer, nee Sissmore. Jane was described on page 122 of the MI5 authorised history as one of the “most remarkable wartime recruits”. She joined the...
Kathleen Maria Margaret Archer MBE, known as Jane Sissmore, was 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 investigations into Soviet intelligence and subversion. She then joined the Secret Intelligence ...
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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.
