Jul 26, 2023
Virginia Hall Goillot DSC, Croix de
Guerre, MBE (April
6, 1906 – July 8, 1982), code
named Marie and Diane, was
an American who
worked with the United Kingdom's
clandestine Special
Operations Executive (SOE) and the American Office
of Strategic Services (OSS) in France during World War II.
The objective of SOE and OSS was to conduct espionage, sabotage and reconnaissance in
occupied Europe against the Axis powers,
especially Nazi Germany. SOE
and OSS agents in France allied themselves with resistance groups
and supplied them with weapons and equipment parachuted in from
England. After World War II Hall worked for the Special
Activities Division of the Central
Intelligence Agency (CIA).
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