Once arrived in Paris, she met the young Russian captain Vadime the Massloff, who, later in her life, she’d name him
the love of her life. Although he had been quartered in Vittel, Mata Hari permanently had plans to visit him. As a foreigner she could not enter the military area without a special pass. She accelerated thus immediately to get hold of such a pass at the military office for expatriate on the boulevard Saint-Germaine 282, the building where also the
French contra-espionage services, had been housed.

 

The story goes that Mata Hari stepped in a wrong door, and suddenly stood in the office of captain Georges Ladoux,
head of the office. In spite of warnings by the English for this person of suspect, Ladoux suggested Mata Hari to
become employed at the second office.

 

The rewarding should be 1.000.000  France francs. After visiting Massloff in Vittel, Mata Hari agreed with Ladoux request. Her goal was to serve France, but also to make a lot of money as a spy. As it happens, Vadime had ask her
to merry him, and with this amount of money, she never more would have to work and entirely could dedicate herself
to her beloved.