Josefina Guerrero

Josefina Guerrero (August 5, 1917 – June 18, 1996) was a Filipino spy during World War II. Guerrero had leprosy and was an unsuspicious and effective surveillance asset for American allied forces. In 1948, she made history as the first foreign national with leprosy to receive a U.S. visa, and her admission to the Carville Leprosarium was accompanied by significant media attention.

Early and personal life Josefina Guerrero was born on August 5, 1917, in Lucban in Quezon. She was religious and revered Joan of Arc; as a child, she also fantasized she was a heroine. She was described by many as attractive, lively and jolly.

On April 21, 1934, she married an affluent medical student, Renato Maria Guerrero, the son of a renowned doctor, Manuel S. Guerrero. She was sixteen years old, and he was twenty-six. They had a daughter two years later. —leprosy was highly stigmatized at the time. working as a courier to deliver important news about the war to Filipinos. Her address book included no one she had known before the 1960s; she said she had left her painful past behind.