Does she do it for money, love of country, or just because she likes the excitement?

Does she have any feelings for the men she betrays?

They call her Code Name 'Paris' which is neither her real name nor her real code name, as far as anybody knows. But nobody really knows much about her and some doubt that she even exists. They claim she is just a fiction created to help explain certain peculiar circumstances that occurred in London, Moscow, Paris, and Beijing. Each of these incidents involved a highly placed diplomat traveling on a sensitive mission bearing extremely confidential documents, and in each case not only did the diplomat ask an unknown woman to join him in his room, he later confessed a compulsion to impress her by revealing precisely that which he was pledged to safeguard. Some doubt that these incidents are connected. In debriefings the victims all found it difficult to describe the career ending woman who had made such an impression on them only hours before. And the few, imprecise details that were extracted from them under intense questioning led to wildly dissimilar portraits. Yet one common thread appears to have run through the testimony of each humiliated man — a fragrance they had noticed before noticing the woman herself, a fragrance that had attracted and ensnared them and which lingered in the morning long after she was gone. Each of these men (who had never tried to describe a fragrance before!) gave very similar descriptions of this perfume which now, like the woman herself, is referred to in the intelligence community as Code Name 'Paris'.

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