Churchill's Angel
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Churchill's Angel

The Life of SIS Agent Hazel ‘Jicky’ Smith

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Churchill's Angel

The Life of SIS Agent Hazel ‘Jicky’ Smith

About this book

Her name was Hazel Smith, but everyone called her Jicky. Whether it was a cover name or affectation, she never said, but  it was also the name of her favourite perfume from the historic French perfume house, Guerlain, established in  Paris in 1800. Born into a well-to-do family, she grew-up in Hertfordshire, enjoying the privileged life of a magnificent country house and domestic servants.

In Paris, Jicky worked for the British Embassy in those tumultuous days leading up to the outbreak of the Second World War, operating as an undercover agent playing an important role in the intelligence community for the SIS (MI6).

After war broke out, Jicky displayed extraordinary courage and suffered for her loyalty to the cause. At one point she was captured and tortured by the Nazis; she was pregnant at the time. Her partner was a member of the French resistance but she did not betray him, or her country.

Among her tasks, she used her previous education in graphology to decipher the personality of subjects under surveillance by means of handwriting analysis. One of her professors was a disciple of Jung, who trained her in the techniques of psychoanalysis for divining truth and lies. She was even an expert in homing pigeons, the unit known as MI14.

After the war, she moved to a small town in Italy taking her secrets with her, and her undiminished passion for life.

This is her story.

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Table of contents

  1. Cover Page
  2. Half-Title Page
  3. Title Page
  4. Copyright Page
  5. Dedition
  6. Contents
  7. Acknowledgements
  8. Preface
  9. Part One: Portrait of an Invisible Angel Against the Nazis
  10. Chapter 1 Hazel or Jicky?
  11. Chapter 2 To Paris with Love
  12. Chapter 3 Write a Few Lines by Hand…
  13. Chapter 4 Churchill and the Secret Service
  14. Chapter 5 The Hermès Family
  15. Chapter 6 Dear Paolo
  16. Chapter 7 Codes, Acronyms and Numbers
  17. Chapter 8 Jicky’s Diaries and Personal Address Book
  18. Chapter 9 Nicoletta, Nicole or Nico
  19. Chapter 10 My Friend Dorothy
  20. Chapter 11 Nazis
  21. Chapter 12 Seize the Moment
  22. Chapter 13 Confession
  23. Chapter 14 The King’s White Horse
  24. Chapter 15 The Seven Lives
  25. Part Two: The French Resistance: An In-Depth Investigation Using Jicky’s Connections
  26. Chapter 1 The Resistance: Imagine Spring!
  27. Chapter 2 Bernard Buffet, the Expressionist Painter
  28. Chapter 3 Jicky’s Thoughts of Spring
  29. Chapter 4 Desperately Seeking Gerard Vogel
  30. Chapter 5 A French Identity Document with a London Stamp
  31. Chapter 6 Resistance Fighters Lucien Durand and Gerard Vogel
  32. Chapter 7 Lucienne Durand, Josephine Baker and the 18th Arrondissement
  33. Chapter 8 Gerard Vogel in Prison
  34. Chapter 9 The Mystery of Jicky’s British Colleagues in the French Resistance
  35. Chapter 10 The Disappearance and Discovery of Gerard Vogel
  36. Part Three: Going Home: Jicky’s Family, Town and Her Final Secrets
  37. Chapter 1 Jicky’s Hometown
  38. Chapter 2 The Discovery of Jicky’s Family
  39. Chapter 3 Secret, Fairytale Harpenden
  40. Chapter 4 No 95 Batford Prisoner of War Camp
  41. Chapter 5 Another ‘Enigma’ Cracked by a British Engineer
  42. Chapter 6 Anthony Piercey’s Revelations
  43. Chapter 7 A Plaque for Jicky
  44. Bibliography
  45. Endnotes
  46. Index