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Celebrity Spies, Part 3/3 - The Josephine Baker Effect | Deuxième Bureau

True Spies: Espionage | Investigation | Crime | Murder | Detective | Politics

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Josephine and Abte's Guide to Lisbon

Josephine and Abte realized that this combined with the horde of intelligence gathered since the German occupation, now in Josephine's possession, represents a goldmine of critical information. And so if Josephine can somehow get all this intelligence to Lisbon, it can be in theory delivered to the British Embassy, handed over to that cell. From there, there are regular flights by BOAC, the forerunner to British Airways, which were going pretty much daily from Lisbon to Bristol Airport. And so it could be flown back to the UK. Using her connections, Josephine secures a transit visa for Abte who will be accompanying her. So, Jacobte is travelling under a force passport. He

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