I googled Mata Hari and cigars to check this. Turns out that it's nothing to do with her but I think I found the answer by accident in the process via a Dorling Kindersley book: two Dutchmen, Haicke Janssen and Willem Roos posing as cigar importers, were spying in Portsmouth for the Germans: http://www.stephen-stratford.co.uk/janssen_and_roos.htm
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Date: 2015-12-29 07:55 pm (UTC)http://www.stephen-stratford.co.uk/janssen_and_roos.htm