Abigail collects information overheard in André's home and hides it in gifts sent to her son, left in Anna's care. Though technically free, she is coerced into working for John André. She had been owned by Anna Strong until the British army seized Selah's property upon his imprisonment.
#LESBIAN SPY AGENT CODE#
In the show, Agent 355 is the code name of a former slave named Abigail.
#LESBIAN SPY AGENT SERIES#
Idara Victor plays fictional Agent 355 in the television series Turn: Washington's Spies.She is part of a fictionalized Culper Ring that has remained active into modern times. One of the main characters in Y: The Last Man from Vertigo Comics is a modern spy that goes by Agent 355.( July 2020) ( Learn how and when to remove this template message)Īgent 355 has become a part of popular fiction. Unsourced material may be challenged and removed. Please help improve this article by adding citations to reliable sources. This section needs additional citations for verification.
Her presence on the ship may have led to the legend that Agent 355 was herself imprisoned there. However, Alexander Rose disagrees with this narrative, stating that "females were not kept aboard prison ships," and that "there's no record whatsoever of a birth." Strengthening the idea that Agent 355 may have been Anna Strong is the fact that Anna's husband, Selah Strong, was imprisoned on Jersey and she was supposedly allowed to bring him food. She was imprisoned on HMS Jersey, a prison ship, where she may have given birth to a boy named Robert Townsend Jr. The then pregnant 355 was arrested in 1780 when Benedict Arnold defected to the Loyalists. She may have been a member of a prominent Loyalist family, which would have put her within easy reach of British commanders. ģ55 is thought to have played a major role in exposing Arnold as a defector and in the arrest of André, who was hanged in Tappan, New York. It is also occasionally believed that there was no Agent 355 at all, but rather that the code indicated a woman who had useful information but was not "formally connected to the ring." The code itself may have referred to "a woman," not an agent who was a woman. Other possible candidates for 355 include Sarah Horton Townsend and Elizabeth Burgin. John Burke and Andrea Meyer have made a different case for 355's involvement in the spy ring, using circumstantial evidence that she may have been close to Major John André and also to Benjamin Tallmadge, thereby protecting Woodhull from accusations of being a spy. Stories about Townsend state that he was in love with 355. Īnother theory is that 355 may have been Robert Townsend's common-law wife. Strong allegedly helped the Culper Ring by signaling to its members the location of Caleb Brewster, who raided British shipments in his whaleboat around Long Island Sound after he was given a secure location by Strong. One person who has been named as the possible identity of Agent 355 was Anna Strong, Woodhull's neighbor. The way the code is constructed indicates that she may have had "some degree of social prominence." She was likely living in New York City at the time, and at some point had contact with Major John André and Benedict Arnold. She worked with the American Patriots during the Revolutionary War as a spy, and was likely recruited by Woodhull into the spy ring. The true identity of 355 remains unknown, but some facts about her seem clear. 2 on Netflix.The only direct reference to 355 in any of the Culper Ring's missives (1778–1780) appears in a letter from Abraham Woodhull ("Samuel Culper Sr.") to General George Washington, where Woodhull describes her as "one who hath been ever serviceable to this correspondence." “But, that approval comes with one major caveat - they must put up with a new member of the squad: straight-guy Agent Buck (David Harbour).” “After finding their own case, and solving it on their own terms, they get the reluctant approval of The AIA, and are officially upgraded to Active Secret Agents in the field. “But, after a decade of waiting for their first official mission from The AIA, Mary becomes hell-bent on proving himself to the Agency that turned its back on him, and decides to go rogue with Q-Force. Joining forces with the expert mechanic Deb ( Wanda Sykes), master of drag and disguise Twink (Matt Rogers), and hacker Stat (Patti Harrison), together they’re Q-Force. “Instead, he assembled a misfit squad of LGBTQ+ geniuses. “Unable to fire him, the Agency sent him off to West Hollywood, to disappear into obscurity. “Steve Maryweather, AKA Agent Mary, was once the Golden Boy of the American Intelligence Agency (AIA), until he came out as gay,” the official description reads.
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