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Old 31-07-2004, 10:28 AM   #4 (permalink)
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Originally posted by Thomas McCall@Jul 30 2004, 05:32 PM
Carve her name with pride
I remember seeing this when it was first released and a couple of times since. In the film, her poem, used for encoding messages and unique to each agent, was something Szabo had learned from her late husband.

It was a revelation, therefore, to read in Between Silk and Cyanide by Leo Marks, who worked in SOE's code section, that it was just a piece of doggerel he had made up.
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