Spilling Secrets! The Biggest Spy Sex Scandals Of All Time
Nov. 14 2012, Published 11:00 a.m. ET
By Debbie Emery - Breaking Celebrity News Reporter
With a high-operative CIA agent, an extramarital relationship, a socialite mistress and a national security breach that reaches the highest level, the Petraeus affair has all the ingredients of an historical spy sex scandal!
As Breaking Celebrity News previously reported, CIA Director David Petraeus resigned last Friday after admitting that he had an extramarital affair and that his behavior was "unacceptable."
Petraeus, a former four-star Army general, was one of the most influential and respected military men of his time, and led the surge into Iraq under former President George Bush and led U.S. Troops into Afghanistan before becoming the director of the CIA.
As the rumor mill keeps raking up more illicit allegations against the married man – including raunchy e-mails about "sex under the desk" with former mistress Paula Broadwell, Breaking Celebrity News is taking a look back at the biggest spy scandals that have caused public outrage.
1. Margaretha Geertruida "Margreet" Zelle, commonly known by the stage name Mata Hari, was a Dutch exotic dancer who became an infamous double agent during World War I when she crossed over the borders of neutral Holland into warring European countries selling secrets. She was accused of working for both the French Intelligence and as a German spy under the code name H-21. She was arrested in February 1917 from her room at the Hotel Elys