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Divorced. By Peter M. Churchill, 46, top British secret agent in occupied France during World War II (no kin to Sir Winston): Odette (full name: Odette Marie Celine Brailly), 43, famed Frenchborn allied spy who was arrested with Churchill by the Gestapo in 1943; after eight years of marriage; in London. Odette saved the life of Churchill (her commanding officer) by convincing the Nazis that he was only her husband who had entered spying at her insistence. She was tortured and imprisoned for two years, escaped to the U.S. lines in 1945, rejoined Churchill London, where she later married...
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