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...Each Hand. The British put her to work at once. Posing as a British journalist in Budapest, Agent Skarbek commuted by ski and car across the Tatra Mountains into Poland, to organize escape routes for Polish and Allied officers. Once she and her partner, a childhood friend named Andrew Kowerski, were captured by the Gestapo, but Christine, whose poise in the presence of danger soon became legendary, talked them both out of trouble. According to British Intelligence, she was the only woman who went through six years of Allied undercover work and throve on it. Most women gave up after...
Last week, with Dennis presumably out of the way, 37-year-old Christine made final plans to fly to Brussels and join her old wartime companion Andrew Kowerski, now Major Andrew Kennedy of British Intelligence. At midnight, after dining with a few friends, she went back to her hotel. She had just started upstairs when she heard her name called. She turned around, began talking to the man who addressed her. Then the night porter heard her scream: "Get him off me!" The porter and two other men rushed up, but too late. There on the floor at the foot...
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