doi:10.7916/d8-5q00-tp62Reminiscences of Mary Bancroft, 1979-1980Bancroft, Maryoral historiesmixed materialSpiesEspionage, American--20th century.--Europe, WesternFameWorld War, 1939-1945United States Politics and government 20th centurySwitzerland National characteristicsBancroft, MaryRufenacht, J. G. (Jean Godefroy)Jung, C. G. (Carl Gustav), 1875-1961Dulles, Allen, 1893-1969Hitler, Adolf, 1889-1945 Assassination attemptsGisevius, Hans Bernd, 1904-1974Bancroft, Mary (1903-1997). Childhood: Cambridge, MA; education: Smith College; C.W. Barron, mentor and friend; marriages to Sherwin Badger, Jean Rufenacht; Les Geneveys-sur-Coffrane, Switzerland, 1935-1937: local lore, Swiss sensibility; influence of memoirs by Madame de Charriere and Madame de Staël; journalist and free-lance writer, Zurich, 1938-1953; World War II, anticipation and onset of; Carl Jung: consulted for sneezing attacks, friendship and correspondence with; U.S. Office of Strategic Services, Intelligence Analyst, 1941-1945; Allen Dulles, espionage work and romance with; July 20, 1944 conspiracy to kill Adolf Hitler: spy work with Dr. Hans Bernd Gisevius; Nuremberg, experience at witness house for defendants; encounters with famous personages: Heinrich Hoffman, Bill Donovan, Indira Gandhi, Wilhelm Furtwängler, James and Nora Joyce, Eleanor Roosevelt, Adlai Stevenson, John F. and Robert Kennedy, Ed Koch, daughter Mary Jane's wedding to Horace Taft; society clubs of New York City; work as Democrat: campaign for state assembly, 1960; appearance in Woody Allen film "Interiors"; review of Norman Mailer's book "The Executioner's Song"; meditations on celebrity