Speaker 1: The woman in the jail cell was proving to be
Speaker 1: a problem. It was November and she arrived in San
Speaker 1: Juan de las Avede Sauce the day before. She was
Speaker 1: discovered at the train station with three strange men. When
Speaker 1: the Spanish officers demanded to see their passports, none of
Speaker 1: them could produce one. The woman was separated from the
Speaker 1: group and thrown into a cold, isolated cell. The notes
Speaker 1: in her arrest file only deepen the mystery of her identity.
Speaker 1: Her Spanish was formal, her accent sounded French to their ears,
Speaker 1: and her request singular, I want to speak to the
Speaker 1: American consul in Barcelona. The response was also singular. Among
Speaker 1: other notes in the woman's arrest report were her dirty
Speaker 1: clothes and a general appearance that made it seem like
Speaker 1: she hadn't slept or eaten well in days, and notably,
Speaker 1: she couldn't move without displaying a bad limp. Whoever this
Speaker 1: woman was, she certainly didn't belong in San Juan de
Speaker 1: las abidesas a small mountain town in the far northeast
Speaker 1: of Spain just over the border with France. With her
Speaker 1: formal Spanish and slight French accent, the woman was obviously
Speaker 1: not a Spanish citizen, so she was transferred to Miranda
Speaker 1: del Ebro prison, some forty miles away outside the town
Speaker 1: of Pagaris, where her only comfort was a blanket as
Speaker 1: dingy and tattered as her dress. Though they didn't know
Speaker 1: it at the time, the Spanish Guard had managed to
Speaker 1: achieve with the Nazis had not. Despite years of intensive searching,
Speaker 1: they had captured Virginia Hall, a woman who would go
Speaker 1: down in the annals of history as the greatest spy
Speaker 1: of World War Two. On October, run for your life.