Jacques Abtey
Jacques Abtey was an officer of the Intelligence service and Against-espionage French. He especially dissociated himself against the Germans during the Second world war.
Biography
When the war is declared, Abtey is chief of military against-espionage in Paris. One of his/her colleagues suggests to him resorting to Joséphine Baker to obtain information, which it will do with pleasure. A few months later, for racist questions, Baker is prohibited to occur on scene.In 1940, following the call of de Gaulle to resist, they decide to rejoin London. Abtey, become “Mr Sanders”, learns that the intelligence service, reorganized, is now located at Marseilles. Baker designates it as “artistic secretary Mr Hébert” to avoid the suspicions.
In 1941, Baker decides to settle with Algiers, Abtey is voyage. Working in concert, they still collect information on behalf of the French Résistance and of free France. The same year, Abtey must communicate its information in Portugal, but cannot obtain from visa, contrary to Baker. It is the latter which will fulfill its mission.
From return to Morocco, it falls ill, but receives quantity of important visitors. Abtey benefits from it to transmit various messages to him which it gives to the diplomats and the generals who visit it.
Eager to improve the moral one of the allied troops, Baker occurs with Casablanca, Oran, Mostaganem, Beirut and Damas, inter alia. In November 1942, in front of its success, Abtey proposes to use its image with the profit of official propaganda, the benefit being versed with the groups of French resistance in Metropolitan France. What it accepts with enthusiasm.
August 1st
It publishes a testimony in 1949 on its actions like resistant during the Second world war: the secret War of Josephine Baker .
Biliography
- Jacques Abtey, the secret War of Josephine Baker , Siboney Editions, 1948.
- Jacques Abtey, 2nd Office against Abwehr , Paris, the Roundtable, 1966.
Anecdote
Several of its missions were told by the Colonel Rémy. It is also one of the main characters of the biographical novel One always does not have caviar of Johannes Mario Simmel.
External bonds
- Joséphine Baker with the service of free France
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