She is said to be Winston Churchill's favorite spy. At one point, she became the girlfriend of Fleming, the author of "007", and some say that she can even charm fierce animals.
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Kristin Granville was born in 1915 in Warsaw, Poland, to a noble family, the daughter of a count, a Jewish banker. As an adult, Christine is colorful and beautiful, and once won the "Miss Poland" crown in the Polish National Beauty Pageant.
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At the age of 19, Christine married Jez Gizki and went to Ethiopia with her husband to work in diplomacy. After the German invasion of Poland in September 1939, Christine, who was abroad, wanted to fight for her homeland, so she managed to reach the United Kingdom and offered to work for the British spy agency "Special Operations Committee".
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Christine was then ordered to infiltrate Poland and carry out sabotage activities behind Nazi enemy lines. Soon after, by chance, she reunited with her childhood friend Andrew Kowski, who was already a key member of the anti-Nazi organization. The two traveled together to Budapest, the capital of Hungary, for anti-Nazi activities, and both fell in love and became a pair of war lovers.
Christine was recruited to MI5, which later evolved into the legendary Special Operations Service (S.O.E.).
It was an organization set up by Churchill to engage in sabotage, subversion and espionage, operating in the rear of enemy enemies and "calming Europe."
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She went by the pseudonym Kristen Granville, obtained a British passport, and slightly reduced her true age by a few years on official forms — self-reinvention is part of her disguise, as many spies do.
She soon traveled to London, applied to become a British agent, offered to ski across the Carpathians into Poland, and campaigned for Britain in Nazi-occupied Warsaw.
A report by the Secret Service said that "she was fearless" and was a "passionate Polish patriot ... Ski connoisseur and great female adventurer".
The British gave her the code name "Willing" (meaning "willing"), which aptly reflected her willingness to embrace extreme danger and her attitude towards sex.
During the first phase of Christine's service, she was sent to Hungary to send intelligence and personalities into or out of Poland.
She crossed the mountains between Hungary and Poland at least 6 times, brought Polish resisters and soldiers out, and continued to fight for the Allies. Usually accompanied by Andrzej Kołowski, a one-legged Polish patriot and her longest-standing (and most tormented) lover.
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There are countless stories about her unusually calm and calm: the bodies of refugees who skied past the mountains and froze to death; buying guards; dodging Nazi Air Force bullets on open hillsides; Biting her tongue and spitting out blood, the captors mistakenly thought that she had tuberculosis and escaped the clutches of the Gestapo.
She is said to have been able to captivate animals: once a "fierce, Alsatian wolf dog that could bite off a person's neck" found her hiding under a bush with some guerrillas, and she wrapped her arms around it, "lying down next to her, ignoring the owner's whistles".
Christine is particularly adept at creating her own mythology, "telling stories about her appeased enemy wolf dogs."
According to her best friends, she befriends lovers at an alarming rate and abandons them at an equally alarming rate. Sometimes, they are very unacceptable to such abandonment.
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A stolen British intelligence archive mentions that Christine's "charm seems to have caused a little trouble in Budapest." An abandoned lover came to her apartment and threatened to shoot "the root of her own thigh." As a result, he missed and shot to the foot.
Her greatest achievement was to rescue Kamertz and two other captured agents from the Gestapo prison, where they were awaiting execution.
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She entered prison by paying a bribe, claiming to be the niece of Marshal Montgomery, and warned the leader of the French collaborators that if executed, he would be subjected to quick and deadly reprisals from the advance Allies. The Frenchman heard the power of these words and fled with the prisoners.
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During her perilous career as a spy herself, Christine herself was arrested by the Gestapo many times, and she managed to escape each time with her superior wit.
Once, Christine and her husband, Andrew, were arrested and interrogated by the Gestapo. During the interrogation, Christine bites her tongue and pretends to cough and bleed, and the Gestapo mistakenly believes that she has tuberculosis, and the interrogators who are afraid of infection immediately release them as if they were fleeing the plague.
On another occasion, the Nazis broke into her home and took her and Andrew to a Nazi prison. While in prison, Christine easily won the favor of a Hungarian major, who later applied for their release on the grounds that the Kristins were ill.
Christine's wisdom and courage were admired by Churchill, who even said that Christine was his "favorite female spy". For Christine's heroic performance, she has been awarded the Charles de Gaulle Crusade in France and the George Cross in England.
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After the end of World War II, Christine's family's entire wealth in Poland had been wiped out in the war, and Christine, who had almost nothing, had no choice but to come to an international cruise ship and work as a hostess.
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In the past, the legendary female spy who crisscrossed the sea and turned clouds and rain did the trivial work of serving tea and water all day long. Some believe that Christine's "abandonment" is due to her knowledge of a conspiracy involving the British government.
It is said that the British intelligence agency had planned to assassinate Skoski, the leader of the Polish Free Army in World War II, and Christine, who was an insider and a Pole, although she had just made great achievements, was ruthlessly "banned" by the British intelligence agency because of sympathy for Skoski and dissatisfaction with the intelligence officers.
Christine has many lovers, and her most famous lover is Ian Fleming, a former British intelligence officer and author of the 007 series of spy novels.
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It is reported that Christine and Fleming became secret lovers after World War II, and the two often had secret trysts in a place called the Granville Inn in Dover.
At that time, Fleming had planned to marry his girlfriend Annie, but he fell hopelessly in love with Christine, and even once regretted her marriage for her, writing to his fiancée's brother Hugo: "I am not suitable for Anne." ”
However, Fleming and Christine's romance ended in the end, and Fleming later married Anne.
Despite this, Fleming was obsessed with Christine and wrote her into his first 007 novel, Casino Royale, making her "Bond Girl One". Many people have found that Linde, the two-faced female spy in the book, has a strong shadow of Christine.
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It is suspected that Christine is also a double agent, like Lind in the book, and that she may have secretly worked for the Soviet Union.
However, this claim was not officially acknowledged by the United Kingdom, and Vera Atkins, a former British "special operations committee" officer, who reviewed all the secret files about Christine, said: "Christine is an absolutely loyal spy to the United Kingdom, and there is no evidence that she ever betrayed her beliefs." ”
More unfortunately, Christine, a "heroic female spy" who escaped countless disasters in World War II, finally died in a love murder in peacetime.
In 1952, Christine met male flight attendant George Murdoni on the ocean cruise ship where she worked.
Christine, who was 37 years old at the time, was still as beautiful as ever, and Murdoni fell madly in love with her and wooed her, but Christine refused.
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On June 15 of that year, Murdoni, who was desperate due to emotional frustration, broke into Christine's apartment in London and stabbed Christine to death with a knife, and the most legendary ace female spy in World War II was killed, and the murderer Murdoni was later sentenced to death.