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| | Women Spies: Sarah Edmonds (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06) |
 | | After finishing her training, she was taken by submarine to southern France where she rowed ashore near Cannes on the night of October 30, 1942, to make contact with British agent Peter Churchill, who was in charge of all SOE operations in southern France. |
 | | Moreover, she not only convinced her Nazi interrogators that she, not Churchill, was the leader of the SOE group, but that Churchill was the nephew of British Prime Minister Winston Churchill (which he was not). |
 | | Both Churchill and Odette were housed in separate camps, were spared execution as Allied troops closed in, their captors believing that they would receive leniency if they preserved the lives of those related to Winston Churchill, a ruse Odette had perpetuated throughout captivity. |
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