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In the 1920s and 30s, Joséphine Baker was an international superstar, known for her daring dances and exotic costumes. But during World War II she performed her greatest role yet: Spy.
Men threw themselves at Baker constantly, but nothing could prepare her for the unlikely fan she’d earn in Jacques Abtey, the 33-year-old head of the French military intelligence service Le Deuxième Bureau. Abtey was looking for undercover agents willing to work without pay for the French war effort, and his friend Daniel Marouani, whose brother Felix worked for Baker, suggested her.
The performer’s international popularity turned out to be an invaluable resource. High-ranking officials of the Axis powers adored her, including Italy’s ruler , Benito Mussolini. It took only a week for Baker to gather important statistics and possibly a code book from the Italian embassy, which she passed along to Abtey.
Baker may have literally kept her cards close to her chest when it counted, but her reputation for showy extravagance worked in her favor as a spy. When she moved throughout Europe on assignment for de Gaulle, she brought with her many suitcases and a menagerie of pets ; she believed that traveling with an outrageous excess of luggage made her cover story more believable.After the Germans successfully occupied all of France, Baker knew she couldn’t go home again.
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