PARIS - Coco Chanel: a fashion icon whose name has become shorthand for timeless French elegance, a shrewd businesswoman who overcame a childhood of poverty to build a supernova and luxury ... a Nazi spy? A new book by an American historian based in Paris Chanel suggests not only had an affair during the war with a German aristocrat and spy, but she was also an agent of the organization of German Abwehr military intelligence and a rabidly anti-Semitic. The doubts about the loyalties of Chanel during World War II are long, but "Sleeping with the Enemy: The Secret War of Coco Chanel" goes beyond those arguments, citing as evidence the documents removed from files around the world. The book, published in the U.S. Knopf on Tuesday, has altered the mood in France, where the luxury industry is a pillar of the economy and Chanel is widely regarded as the jewel in the crown. The House of Chanel reacted quickly, saying in a statement that "more than 57 books have been written about Gabrielle Chanel. ... We encourage you to consult some of the most serious." Hal Vaughan, 84-year-old veteran journalist of the Second World War, who long ago wrote two history books, insists he is serious. "Sleeping with the Enemy" is the result of over four years of hard work, born of an accidental finding of the police file national France, said. "I was looking for something else and I find this document by saying:" Chanel is a Nazi agent, his number is blah blah blah, and his pseudonym is Westminster, "Vaughan told The Associated Press." I see this new and I say, 'What the hell is this? I could not believe!
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