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British, French honor U.S. spy Virginia Hall [audio 5min]

Virginia Hall, a great American spy, is being honored today in Washington, D.C., by the French and British governments. The Gestapo once declared Hall "the most dangerous of all Allied spies" who had to be destroyed. And they offered a reward in Wanted Posters for her demise. She was also known as the woman with a limp -- a hunting accident early in life left her an amputee. But Hall went on to become a coordinator of the Resistance movement in France; she died in 1982. Hall's niece, Lorna Catling, accepted posthumous honors presented by the British ambassador at the home of the French ambassador. Noah Adams talks to Catling.
Read entire article at NPR "All Things Considered"