Badass Week: The One Legged Woman Who Was the Most Dangerous Of All Allied Spies

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Her name was Virginia Hall, an American spy born in Baltimore in 1906. She attended both Barnard College and Radcliffe College—two prestigious all-women’s higher education facilities—and continued her studies at schools in France, Germany, and Austria. She had dreams of a career in foreign service. At just twenty-five years old, she was appointed to the position of Consular Service clerk at the American Embassy in Warsaw, Poland and seemed to be well on her way to accomplishing her goals.

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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Virginia_Hall
https://www.cia.gov/news-information/featured-story-archive/2012-featured-story-archive/virginia-hall.html
http://www.nwhm.org/education-resources/biography/biographies/virginia-hall/
http://www.usnews.com/usnews/culture/articles/030127/27heyday.hall.htm
http://www.smithsonianmag.com/history-archaeology/hall.html

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