1942 In the middle of World War II. The battle is raging in the diplomatic arena, in the espionage world, and even in the entertainment world. Hollywood is making a movie called "Casablanca" based on a love story set against the backdrop of tensions between the ruling French authorities and the Nazi forces over control of the Moroccan city of Casablanca.
On June 21, while actor Humphrey Bogart and actress Ingrid Bergman were busy shooting at the California studio in the city of Casablanca, a honeymoon was carried out inside the Vichy-French government embassy in Washington. And the goal of his operation was to conquer the original city of Casablanca!
Hitler invaded France in 1940. Shortly after occupying parts of France, Hitler established a loyal government there. The center of this new government was a city called Vichy, after which that part of France became known as Vichy-France.
Although not directly involved in the war at first, by 1942 the United States was also directly involved in the war against Nazi Germany. But even then, out of greater interest, they maintained diplomatic relations with the VC government and proceeded with full security to the VC government embassy in Washington. The VC government also took this opportunity to conduct their intelligence activities from the embassy.
At that time, conquering North Africa was crucial for the Allies to stop Germany's advance. But different parts of North Africa and the seas were then under the control of the Axis Powers. If the Allies had invaded Africa directly, a huge number of casualties would have been inevitable. As a result, the only way to win Africa without a war was to get all the information about the enemy's war plans and preparations in advance and plan accordingly.
The US and Britain could easily have intercepted the information that was exchanged daily with the German embassy. But the problem was, these messages were encrypted - converted to incomprehensible code. The codebook that contained the signal to retrieve the meaning of these messages was completely meaningless until it could be touched.
The Allies learned that the codebook for decrypting the French Naval Code was kept in a vault at the VC-French Embassy in Washington. Amy Elizabeth 'Betty' Pak Thorpe, a special agent of the British intelligence agency MICS, was hired by the Allies to rescue the codebook from there. Her operational codename was Cynthia.
Betty Pack has been very beautiful and attractive since childhood. The men around were crazy for Betty, who has green eyes. Ever since he was in high school, an Italian diplomat used to stand in front of the school to catch a glimpse of him and talk to him. Betty herself knew the power of her attraction. And from that childhood he used his form and youth, sometimes for mere pleasure, sometimes for various interests.
After the outbreak of World War II, Betty used her hypnotic powers to spy on the enemy. By joining the British intelligence agency MICS, he had a secret love affair with the Polish foreign minister's chief aide and snatched all Polish secret information from him and handed it over to MICS.
From the information sent by Betty, Britain knew that Polish mathematicians had been able to break the basic code of the German enigma machine. Germany used this enigma machine to exchange secret information about the war. Upon learning of this information, the British pressured Poland and persuaded their mathematicians to work with British mathematicians.
Alan Turing, a British mathematician who was later able to completely break the code of an enigma machine, was inspired by information provided by Polish mathematicians and by Betty Pack's Honeytrap operation. Many historians estimate that Breaking Turing's Enigma Code was able to reduce the duration of World War II by two years and save the lives of two million people.
After Poland, Betty Pack went to Italy, where she fell in love with an Italian diplomat and snatched an Italian naval secret from him. Because of Betty Pack's success, MICX suggested her name when an operation was planned to recover the codebook from inside the VC-French embassy in Washington.
Betty Pack's target in Washington was the press attache of the VC embassy, Charles Bruce. Betty also went to the hotel where Charles stayed. Charles was married. But even then, Betty fell in love with Charles within a few days of starting the acquaintance in the guise of an like-minded American journalist. Charles himself, madly in love with Betty, began to hand over various German secrets to Betty.
One day Betty told Charles that this would not happen again. If Charles really loves him, he needs help to recover the codebook. Charles did not agree at first, but soon fell in love. At the risk of his own life, he agreed to help his secret lover, the British-American honeypot, Betty Pack.
According to the plan, Charles first established a relationship with the night watchman of the embassy. He explains to her that Betty is his lover, and that he has no place but the embassy to spend intimate time with her. He persuaded the guards to help him in his secret affair by bribing him.
With the knowledge of the night guard, Betty went to the embassy to meet him in Charles' room. They fall in love with the loud noise to make the guard listen. Hearing the sound of them meeting from outside the door, the guard is relieved that they are really lovers.
Then comes the 19th of June. At one point, Betty mixed sleeping pills into her champagne and her dog's food, pretending to talk to the guards that day. When the two fainted, Betty and Charles managed to get in through the embassy window to a criminal known as "Georgia Cracker", who specializes in opening secret vaults.
Once inside, the safe cracker comes in handy. Meanwhile, Betty and Charles waited patiently. Minutes pass and hours pass. When the cracker is finally able to open the vault, there are five minutes left until four in the morning. There is no time to copy the codebook and return it. The cracker left as usual, holding the combination key in Betty's hand on a piece of paper.
Two days later, on June 21, Betty and Charles reappeared at the embassy. This time it is not possible to anesthetize the guard. They enter Charles's room and fall in love. Then when she realizes the guard's round time is over, she's asleep, Betty goes to open the vault herself. But after trying more than once, he failed to open the vault.
After failing twice in a row, Betty was called to New York. While there, he saw that his superiors had arranged for him to be trained to open a vault. And just like the embassy vault, that Georgia cracker is waiting to train him in front of a vault.
Betty and Charles re-entered the embassy on the night of June 24, trained by Safe Cracker. But to their surprise, they noticed that the night guard or his dog was nowhere to be seen.
Instead of being happy, Betty became apprehensive. But is the guard suspecting them? Is he hiding somewhere? As soon as they take the initiative to open the vault, will he come and grab them by the hand? Should they cancel the mission and go back?
Betty decided. He will not go back. He will try his best to recover the codebook. Without letting Charles understand anything, he took off all his clothes one by one and started throwing them on the floor. Charles tried to stop him - what are you doing? If anyone comes and sees? What will happen then, you think?
By then Betty was completely naked. There is no covering on her body except a pearl necklace. At that point he replied, yes. That's exactly what I thought. And that’s why I undressed. As if someone came and saw me in this condition. And you should also start undressing without delay.
Charles still did not fully understand the matter. In the end, Betty had to break down and say - what are we here for? To love secretly. Does anyone in the world fall in love with such clothes at night, in a secret, secluded place? If anyone came and saw us in such a state of dress, they would be more suspicious of us!
Charles was impressed by Betty's words. He began to undress himself. Shortly afterwards, the door to their room slammed open. The whole dark room was illuminated by the light of the powerful torch in the night guard's hand.
Betty began to pretend to cover her body by shouting loudly. But he was deliberately trying to cover his body in such a way that the guard could see the whole of his naked body. After pausing for a few moments, the embarrassed guard realized his mistake. She mistakenly suspected the couple. He left the room expressing regret several times in a row.
After waiting for a while, Betty and Charles realize that the guard will not return, so they set to work. He opened the vault, took out the codebook, copied it and put it back in its place in time. And through this, the key to all the secret information about the Axis warships in the Mediterranean went into the hands of the Allies.
Five months later. In the first week of November 1942, General Eisenhower landed in North Africa with 160,000 troops and occupied vast territories, including Casablanca, Algiers, and Tunisia, almost unhindered. Millions of lives are saved because there is no war. And overnight the Nazis lost a large area and advanced a little further towards defeat.
Newspapers at the time wrote that how such a large area could be conquered without a fight was a military secret. Many years later, it became known that the secret was the naval code obtained through Agent Cynthia Honeytrap's operation.
Pictured is Betty Pack on the left, Hollywood actress Jennifer Lawrence on the right. Since the movie is being made with this story, and Jennifer Lawrence will play the role of Betty.
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