A native of Baltimore, Virginia Hall had a gift for languages, a sense of adventure, & wanted to join the Foreign Service.
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While in Turkey Virginia Hall was involved in a serious hunting accident & lost her left leg below the knee.
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Fitted with a wooden leg, Hall asked to take the Foreign Service oral exam, but was told the loss of her leg was cause for rejection.
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Sent back to France, Hall organized agent networks & assisted escaped POWs while Gestapo desperately searched for “The Limping Lady.”
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1942: Germans seized all of France & Hall barely escaped to Spain by walking across the snow-covered Pyrenees.
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For her courage & ingenuity Hall was only civilian woman during
#WWII awarded the Distinguished Service Cross.#NDEAMpic.twitter.com/socRmXadYg
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At CIA Hall used her covert action expertise in a range of activities & in support of resistance groups in Iron Curtain countries.
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She was one of a handful of relatively senior women in the clandestine service until her mandatory retirement in 1966 at age 60.
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We are proud of our officers with disabilities & continue to strive to make CIA an employer of choice for people with disabilities.
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@CIA im not kidding im giving info for years. ...its all adapted and twistedThanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo
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@CIA Not to be insensitive, but her prosthetic leg would have served as a great hiding place for all kinds of secret/sensitive material.Thanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo
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@CIA Dear CIA, Do a Good Deed PLs Help Arthur's Cataract Surgery campaign(my son)#Donate http://www.gofundme.com/qw3bqvug pic.twitter.com/juGSrPDmlc
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@CIA@cullylarson here it isThanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo
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@CIA we also proud of her abilityThanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo
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@CIA I humbly ask U to help me spread my Artwork!I am an Painter! http://www.ancerg.com pic.twitter.com/W3Q4Tt3i5x
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@CIA Dear CIA This is my Story with my son and my Art, he has Down Syndrome. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-F15TLz7iMI …#Ancerg#Art
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