you think that might be a problem, except everybody loved to talk to josephine baker. laughing] nazis, spanish officials, french officials, portuguese officials, wherever they would go doors would open and they would tell her things. baker eventually makes it to north africa and to morocco and she uses morocco as a base to travel to spain and to portugal where she goes to parties, and she would basically write the information that you collected from various officials onto her sheet music using invisible ink and then should bring back to morocco. it quite amazing, quite daring. she could've been shot as the spy if she had been captured. but then she suffers a major health crisis and she winds up in a clinic in morocco, in casablanca are almost 19 months. and even then she is still spying because her hotel room, sorry, her hospital room becomes a place for everyone to meet, and people, and the talk. it becomes another way to gather intelligence. >> so this is great cover for status as the cia would call, cover for status being a celebrity, nobody would ever suspect. i lov

you think that might be a problem except everybody loved to talk to josephine baker. laughter] >> nazis, spanish officials, french officials, portuguese officials. doors would open and tell her things. baker makes it to north africa and morocco and uses morocco as base to travel to spain and portugal where she goes to parties and she would basically write the information that she collected from various officials onto her sheet music using invisible ink and bring it back to morocco. it's quite amazing, quite daring, she could have been shot as a spy if she had been captured but then she suffers a major health crisis and she winds up in the a clinic in morocco, in casa blanca for almost 19 months and even then she's still spying because her hotel room, i'm sorry, her hospital room, becomes a place for everyone to meet and people come and they talk and becomes another way to gather intelligence. >> right. great cover for status as the cia would call it, nobody would ever suspect. liza, i love how some of your -- they would giggle and say, i sit and laugh with the officers

the ones that jumped out at me were josephine baker and the novelist arthur kessler.talk about their roles in this drama. >> cursor is the author of one of the most important books of the 20thor century on the soviet system. he finished that book and send it off to the publisher in i london 10 day -- 10 days before the nazis invaded france. kirzner was also a hungarian and had been active in the communist party. he had an anti-and her knew if the germans were in fact able to rule inri paris that he would be in major trouble. he escaped like so many of the refugees did and it ends up through a series of calculations joining the french foreign legion. he makes it tois marseilles and hooks up with british p.o.w.s who were also trying to escape in the go-to north africa. he has no papers at this point proving who he is and this is arthur kirzner the well-known hungariannd journalist. he goes to the american consulate and tells the story and the consulate journal -- consulate general believes him and issues him an emergency certificate and he eventually makes it to britain