Mata Hari, executed by firing squad in France as a German double agent, earned her living as this.
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Stripper. Mata Hari whose real name was Margaretha Gertrud Zelle, was a Dutch exotic dancer who stripped nude. She gathered information by seducing military officers. Among the conflicting stories of her execution is the story that she blew a kiss to the firing squad before they shot her.