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Hotel refuses to honour WWII Polish spy who inspired James Bond’s Vesper Lynd because she was murdered in lobby

The wartime spy inspired the character of Vesper Lynd in the James Bond novel Casino Royale but has now been refused a prestigious blue plaque at the hotel where she lived before being murdered. Press materials/Public domain/ 1 Lewxham Gardens Hotel/Facebook

Described as Churchill’s favourite spy, Krystyna Skarbek was one of Britain’s longest-serving female agents during WWII. English Heritage, the Polish Embassy and author Clare Mulley have been campaigning for the boutique hotel in London’s Kensington where she was knifed to death by a jealous lover to install a blue plaque in her memory.

Pole and Chinese national detained for spying - security agency

Piotr D., a Pole, and Wejing W., a Chinese national, (full names withheld under Polish law) were arrested by the Polish Internal Security Agency (ABW) on Tuesday and charged with spying.

New book explores the amazing and contradictory wartime life of a Jewish female agent who worked for the Germans and the Poles

To some she was a traitor, to others a heroine, but perhaps all Wanda Kronenberg did was in the cause of survival.

Seducer, Scoundrel, Spy: The Polish intelligence officer who seduced Berlin high society and warned Warsaw of German invasion plans

Sosnowski's reports were a goldmine for interwar Poland, but in many cases the death knell for his lovers – some of whom were beheaded.

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