Career
Wife of Colonel Antoni Szymański, the last prewar Polish military attaché in Berlin, and later general Kazimierz Wiśniowski. Szymańska, as a British agent, met several times with Canaris in Switzerland and Italy. Then she met with his courier, Hans Bernd Gisevius.
Szymańska played an important role, as an intermediary, in secret contacts between the Allies and German anti-Nazi conspirators (eg, the Schwarze Kapelle).
In April 1940 she received information about the coming German attack on France and the Benelux countries. In mid-June 1941 Szymańska received information about the coming German attack on the Soviet Union.
During World World War II she became one of the most effective MI6 agents. After the war Szymańska moved to England.
Szymańska had three daughters with Colonel.Antoni Szymański — Hanka, Ewa and Marysia.
All four spent the war in Switzerland, where Halina began her work for MI6 and later the French Deuxieme Reseau, conducting courier work into occupied France, for which she was decorated by the French. Among others, she developed a working relationship with the American Allen Dulles, who then headed the American Office of Strategic Services intelligence office in Bern. Dulles became the first civilian and the longest-serving (1953-1961) Director of Central Intelligence (de facto head of the United States. Central Intelligence Agency.
The daughter Ewa now lives in North Carolina, happily married to Andrzej Milewski, who also had a highly honorable war record of fighting with the Allies.
Marysia remained in England with her father Colonel Antoni Szymański, with whom she was very close, and with Szymańska.
She went to boarding school in England, coincidentally called Poles, married Mirek Malewski (another Polish officer who acquitted himself with distinction) and had two children, Anouchka and Michael. lieutenant also shows Mme Szymanska"s diplomatic passport.
Stamped with numerous entry and exit visas, it includes two relating to her rendezvous with Admiral Canaris in Italy, April 1941, at which he disclosed details of Hitler"s imminent attack on the Soviet Union.
She had one son with him, Piotr Wiśniowski. She settled in Ealing, a suburb of London.
