"Through a lot of her life, the early life, she was constantly rejected and belittled," said Purnell. Two movies are in the works.īritish author Sonia Purnell wrote one of the books, A Woman of No Importance, and she explains the irony in the biography's title. So why haven't more people heard about Hall? A quote from Hall on the agency display offers an explanation: "Many of my friends were killed for talking too much."īut now - more than 70 years after her wartime exploits in France, and almost 40 years after her death - Virginia Hall is having a moment.
"She was the most highly decorated female civilian during World War II," said Janelle Neises, the museum's deputy director, who's providing a tour. Her story is on display at the CIA Museum inside the spy agency headquarters in Langley, Va. Virginia Hall is one of the most important American spies most people have never heard of. Her story was long hidden, but is now being told in full. Despite a hunting accident that cost her left leg, she became one of the most successful spies in World War II, first for the British and then for the Americans.
She was raised to marry into her privileged class, but wanted a life of adventure. Virginia Hall was born into a wealthy Baltimore family in 1906.
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