Celebrity Spies, Part 3/3 - The Josephine Baker Effect | Deuxième Bureau
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The Josephine Baker Effect
On November 30th 1940 they set off. First by train through the south of France, across the Spanish border and into the Pyrenees before stopping again in Madrid and picking up a plane to Lisbon. Inevitably, word had gone ahead that none other than Josephine Baker was on the train. The checkpoint guards and Gestapo officers were waiting. She gets down from the train carriage, resplendent in pearls and diamonds and her finest furs,. looking a million dollars. It was now that the Josephine Baker effect would face its greatest test.
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