Speaker 1: Diversion audio. A note this episode contains descriptions of violence
Speaker 1: and torture that may be disturbing for some audiences. Please
Speaker 1: take care in listening. This series is based on historical
Speaker 1: characters and real events. Some dialogue has been imagined for
Speaker 1: dramatic purposes when no primary source material is available. The
Speaker 1: woman in the jail cell was proving to be a problem.
Speaker 1: It was no and she arrived in San Juan de
Speaker 1: las Avede Sauce the day before. She was discovered at
Speaker 1: the train station with three strange men. When the Spanish
Speaker 1: officer demanded to see their passports, none of them could
Speaker 1: produce one. The woman was separated from the group and
Speaker 1: thrown into a cold, isolated cell. The notes in her
Speaker 1: arrest file only deep in 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 Abadsas, 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 Abro 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 head 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. Virginia is unlike just about anybody
Speaker 1: you've ever heard of good greed. She was really unstoppable.
Speaker 1: Every step of the way she was blocked, but every
Speaker 1: step of the way she persevered. She had a dry
Speaker 1: of inside of her that took her places that you
Speaker 1: and I would not choose to go. I think she
Speaker 1: understood that as a woman she could do things that
Speaker 1: her male colleagues could not do. Yeah, she could fly
Speaker 1: under the radar, and she knew that the Germans wanted
Speaker 1: to hunt down the Limping Lady. Each time she went
Speaker 1: back she was facing certain deaths. Being killed would be
Speaker 1: the easy part, being tortured would be the hard part.
Speaker 1: But for Virginia it was just such important work that
Speaker 1: there was no way she was not going to do it.
Speaker 1: As Virginia Hall sat in the corner of the small
Speaker 1: Spanish prison cell, a thousand questions raced through her mind.
Speaker 1: One question fought its way to the top. Would these
Speaker 1: men turn her over to the Gestapo, the secret police
Speaker 1: of Nazi Germany that had invaded and massacred so many thousands.
Speaker 1: The Nazis were paying obscene prices for escaped French citizens
Speaker 1: they considered the enemy, and they paid even more for spies.
Speaker 1: There was one face she couldn't dispel from her thoughts,
Speaker 1: that of Robert Alesh, the priest, with his leering glare
Speaker 1: and cold smile, as he informed his superiors he had
Speaker 1: done the impossible. He had finally apprehended the Limping Lady.
Speaker 1: Although her desire to fight back at Robert Alesh burned
Speaker 1: Virginia's thoughts soon bled into the horror stories she encountered
Speaker 1: in Nazi occupied France in the weeks prior. She didn't
Speaker 1: know if she'd be whisked away to one of the
Speaker 1: concentration camps where she would suffer miserably alongside thousands of
Speaker 1: other prisoners, or what a firing squad just execute her
Speaker 1: at the prison wall and throw her body into the river,
Speaker 1: as they done to so many of her compatriots. She'd
Speaker 1: never been one to coward, but she had also never
Speaker 1: been arrested. It was actually a great irony. Usually when
Speaker 1: British or French spies found themselves in the custody of
Speaker 1: the Gestapo, it had been Virginia who was tasked with
Speaker 1: breaking them free. But now she realized, being the best
Speaker 1: by the service had to offer had his drawbacks, there
Speaker 1: was no one else to break you out. Don't get comfortable, Signora,
Speaker 1: I doubt you will be here alone. And as Virginia
Speaker 1: Hall considered what she believed to be the end of
Speaker 1: her journey as a spy, she thought back to the beginning.
Speaker 1: I'm Stephen Talty, an author and a journalist. I've written
Speaker 1: a number of books about history, including Agent Garbo about
Speaker 1: an eccentric World War Two double agent and the Good Assassin,
Speaker 1: about the undercovers by mission to hunt down the Nazi
Speaker 1: war criminal Herbert Zukers, the Butcher of Latvia. That was
Speaker 1: the basis for season one of this podcast. You don't
Speaker 1: need to have listened to season one to understand and
Speaker 1: enjoy season two, but I would recommend listening. It's good so,
Speaker 1: as you might guess, I'm a lover of all things espionage.
Speaker 1: When I graduated from college, I even considered applying to
Speaker 1: the CIA, but I became a newspaper journalist and then
Speaker 1: an author, and instead I ended up writing about spies.
Speaker 1: The world of spies intrigues me, the secret lives, the
Speaker 1: dangerous missions, the thrilling exploits the idea of one man
Speaker 1: or woman playing this invisible role in history. And that's
Speaker 1: why I'm excited to bring you this season of Good Assassins.
Speaker 1: This season, I want to tell you a story worry
Speaker 1: about one of the most consequential spies in American history.
Speaker 1: Her name was Virginia Hall, and for reasons we'll soon
Speaker 1: get to, she was known to the Nazis as the
Speaker 1: Limping Lady. Now it's difficult to express just how influential
Speaker 1: Virginia was, the Nazis called her the most dangerous of
Speaker 1: all Allied spies, from international spy to guerilla warfare leader.
Speaker 1: Her story is a thrilling tale of a woman whose
Speaker 1: efforts in the face of fascism, racism, sexism, and able
Speaker 1: is um save thousands of lives. There's maybe no figure
Speaker 1: of espionage in all of history like Virginia Hall. She
Speaker 1: embodies a lot of what's amazing about fictional spies like
Speaker 1: James Bond, or Ethan Hunt or Sydney Bristow if you
Speaker 1: remember the TV show Alias. But unlike all those spies,
Speaker 1: Virginia Hall is very real and she changed the course
Speaker 1: of history. From diversion this is Good Assassin's Season two,
Speaker 1: episode one, the greatest spy of World War Two. You know,
Speaker 1: if you're lucky, you might catch a tortoise at that pace.
Speaker 1: I think you could be a little less enthusiastic about
Speaker 1: shooting harmless animals, Virginia. You could be less enthusiastic about
Speaker 1: starving to death. Not long after she was born to
Speaker 1: a well to do family in Baltimore, Maryland, in nineteen
Speaker 1: o six, Virginia Hall fell in love with the idea
Speaker 1: of travel. Her high school yearbook from her all girls
Speaker 1: prep school, Roland Park Country School calls Virginia quote cantankerous
Speaker 1: and capricious and the most original of her class. Do
Speaker 1: you see it? Let's see it. I see that. It's
Speaker 1: about five miles away. You really think you can hit that?
Speaker 1: Not if I had your attitude. Virginia's favorite studies consisted
Speaker 1: mostly of learning other languages, and in her early twenties,
Speaker 1: she flew to Europe, where she began working with the
Speaker 1: American Embassy in Poland as a consular service clerk. Now
Speaker 1: you have to remember this is the nineteen twenties and
Speaker 1: an extpatriot woman traveling alone would have raised some eyebrows,
Speaker 1: but Virginia never gave much thought as to how she
Speaker 1: would be perceived by others. By three, at age seven,
Speaker 1: Virginia still had a reputation for being a tomboy and
Speaker 1: for her wit when she transferred to the consular office
Speaker 1: in Smyrna, Turkey, where a December hunting trip with friends
Speaker 1: would change her life forever. Well done, But you chased
Speaker 1: it behind the fence, not to someone's promity. Well where
Speaker 1: are you going? Maybe I got a wing Virginia. At
Speaker 1: this point in her life, Virginia had more confidence with
Speaker 1: a gun than skill, and she was more interested in
Speaker 1: impressing her friends than the actual sport of hunting. But
Speaker 1: as she climbed a wire fence in search of snipe
Speaker 1: the small birds they were hunting, she tucked her shotgun
Speaker 1: under her arm, slinging her right leg over the top.
Speaker 1: Her left leg slipped, knee jutting upwards, burying it into
Speaker 1: the Virginia fell back to the ground, now with what
Speaker 1: her friends referred to as a quote mangled mess where
Speaker 1: her leg once was together. They quickly picked up Virginia
Speaker 1: and brought her to the nearest hospital as she blacked
Speaker 1: out from the pain. We didn't think. After hearing about
Speaker 1: Virginia's injury, Dr Lauren Shepherd rushed to Smyrna from the
Speaker 1: Istanbul American Hospital to help a fellow Yankee. Once there,
Speaker 1: he inspected the infected and mangled limb. Well. Of course,
Speaker 1: the nineties was before most antibiotics, and so if the
Speaker 1: wound got infected to begin with, it was it was
Speaker 1: really hard to fight off that infection, and so wound
Speaker 1: infections were a huge problem. That's Dr Justin Barr, chief
Speaker 1: Resident in General Surgery at Duke University and the historian
Speaker 1: of Medical military history. In the nineteen thirties, doctors could
Speaker 1: try to stave off an infection with surgical debreedments or antiseptics,
Speaker 1: but if those failed, there was only one course of action, amputation,
Speaker 1: and as Dr Barr pointed out, depending on a close range,
Speaker 1: high velocity hunting rifle, well, it's possible that it's issue
Speaker 1: damage was just so severe that it was not salvageable,
Speaker 1: regardless of whether got infected or not. And so when
Speaker 1: Virginia awoke in her hospital bed, she was greeted by
Speaker 1: the somber expression of Dr. Shepherd. Before Virginia could speak,
Speaker 1: the doctor notified her of a grim reality. An amputation
Speaker 1: had been performed while she'd been unconscious, and they'd removed
Speaker 1: everything below her left knee. Virginia learns to live with
Speaker 1: a new leg after the break m It's not a
Speaker 1: particularly comftical procedure, as you might imagine patients around something
Speaker 1: that's Dr Justin Barrow again, presumably there in the hospital
Speaker 1: for weeks, but it takes a while that stump to heal,
Speaker 1: and then there's a lot of phantom limb pain, and
Speaker 1: so it will be challenging the next few days. So
Speaker 1: Virginia floating in and out of a nauseated and highly
Speaker 1: medicated fog. Eventually, the doctors released her and she returned
Speaker 1: to her family in Maryland to recuperate. There, she was
Speaker 1: outfitted with a prosthetic leg. Now the entire thing is
Speaker 1: made of wood, miss Hall, so keep it sanded, keep
Speaker 1: it away from extreme heat, because well I can imagine.
Speaker 1: Now this model doesn't have a joint, so you won't
Speaker 1: have the flexibility you're used to. And you'll wear this.
Speaker 1: Here you over your stump before sliding the prosthetic on,
Speaker 1: and then you'll hook the bottom of the leg to
Speaker 1: this block here. Say, meet your new foot. See there's
Speaker 1: a rubber soul, so won't wear out your shoes. You
Speaker 1: twist like this, wa. It'll take you some getting used to.
Speaker 1: I'd practice taking the entire thing on and off a
Speaker 1: few times before you try walking. But you'll get the
Speaker 1: hang of it. Don't look so glum, miss Hall. Everyone
Speaker 1: gets used to it. Eventually. It took months before Virginia's
Speaker 1: confidence returned. Slowly, she found her way back into public circles,
Speaker 1: making friendly conversation with old friends, but they only wanted
Speaker 1: to talk about her now missing limb and it's fascinating
Speaker 1: a mechanical replacement, leaving Virginia hungry for more adventure. Virginia
Speaker 1: trained on her new leg daily, doing her best to
Speaker 1: hide the limp that came with her injury. After she
Speaker 1: felt like she could move almost as well as her
Speaker 1: past self, she wrote to the State Department, requesting posts
Speaker 1: in either Spain, Estonia, or Peru. Instead, Virginia was offered
Speaker 1: a position at the U. S Consulate in Venice, Italy,
Speaker 1: and by December of n she was back at work.
Speaker 1: Stationed in Venice, she was twenty nine and quickly became
Speaker 1: consumed with the clerical tasks that filled her days. She
Speaker 1: was at the start considered a glorified secretary, or what
Speaker 1: many would refer to now as an intern, but her
Speaker 1: pension for detail eventually caught the eye of Consul General
Speaker 1: Martin Stewart. Steward began to assign Virginia jobs that were
Speaker 1: usually given to foreign service officers, and Virginia's knowledge of
Speaker 1: the European geopolitical lands cape grew along with her duties.
Speaker 1: The year's nineteen thirty three and nineteen thirty four, when
Speaker 1: Virginia was first working in Turkey and then Italy were
Speaker 1: pivotal in the rise of Adolph Hitler and his Nazi Party.
Speaker 1: Hitler had risen through the German government's ranks over the
Speaker 1: previous decade. He leveraged a bunch of cultural and economic
Speaker 1: factors affecting nineteen twenties and thirties Germany. As his appetite
Speaker 1: for power steadily grew, he emboldened his followers with cenophobic
Speaker 1: hate speech and violent nationalism, targeting a number of races
Speaker 1: and religions, but most specifically Jews. In nineteen thirty three,
Speaker 1: Hitler was appointed Chancellor, and when the following year the
Speaker 1: German president died, Hitler abolished the presidency altogether and became
Speaker 1: the absolute dictator of Germany, declaring himself purer definitely. In
Speaker 1: these years, France, Great Britain, and the United States claimed
Speaker 1: that Hitler was nothing more than a nuisance, turning a
Speaker 1: blind eye to his vicious treatment of Jewish people as
Speaker 1: long as their nations were unaffected. Virginia Hall didn't see
Speaker 1: the severity in Hitler's hate speech and new laws and
Speaker 1: how they could slowly poison the continent at first, she
Speaker 1: did her best to ignore the uprising, the shifts in
Speaker 1: culture and politics, and the business of Panic statesman making
Speaker 1: hurried compromises, but eventually even her own mother beget to
Speaker 1: write Virginia from America with concerns, Dear Virginia, there has
Speaker 1: been much talk on the radio here that bounds of
Speaker 1: immigrants are vacating Europe for the States. Some are socialists
Speaker 1: and others simply feel they've offended the Nazis and might
Speaker 1: simply be prosecuted for it in the not too distant future.
Speaker 1: They don't feel safe remaining on the continent. What a
Speaker 1: grave injustice it is to force someone from their homes
Speaker 1: merely because of their beliefs. And despite news items like this,
Speaker 1: many Americans still view Hitler as a man with a
Speaker 1: comical mustache who really doesn't hold a position of political power.
Speaker 1: Now stationed in Venice, Virginia had become suspicious of Italy's
Speaker 1: stake in the war. Prime Minister of Italy Benito Mussolini,
Speaker 1: had set his sites and invading and occupying the East
Speaker 1: African nation of Ethiopia, with hopes that conquering it would
Speaker 1: bring a boon to Italy's failing economy. And to national pride.
Speaker 1: By six Mussolini had accomplished these goals, and Virginia began
Speaker 1: to speak out against fascism at the consulate in Venice.
Speaker 1: As you might expect, this attracted attention. Hoping to stop
Speaker 1: Virginia from making waves in a politically tumultuous country, one
Speaker 1: of her superiors wrote up a report on her progress.
Speaker 1: Virginia Hall is a clerk of unbounded ambition, lack of
Speaker 1: appreciation of her own limitations, and the most praiseworthy determination.
Speaker 1: She also lacks common sense and good judgment. She overcomes
Speaker 1: her physical disability and keeps up her spirits admirably. However,
Speaker 1: she is not good material for a career service because
Speaker 1: she lacks judgment, background, good sense, and discriminatory powers. She
Speaker 1: also talks too much and frankly out of turn. Her
Speaker 1: clerking is satisfactory at best. You have to wonder whether
Speaker 1: this guy would have had the same criticism for a
Speaker 1: male subordinate with the same quote ambition. When the time
Speaker 1: came from Virginia to test for the Foreign Service, she
Speaker 1: worried the negative report would be used against her. The
Speaker 1: examinations were twofold, one written in one oral. If she passed,
Speaker 1: Virginia would be granted more influence and latitude to operate internationally.
Speaker 1: She would be a part of major decisions regarding expats
Speaker 1: and government officials, and she would finally have more influence
Speaker 1: than her previous position as a glorified lackey. Virginia had
Speaker 1: taken the exams twice before in her early twenties, and
Speaker 1: twice before she failed, but now she was a woman
Speaker 1: with more experience, more knowledge, more savvaty, which made the
Speaker 1: letter that appeared on her desk in all the more heartbreaking.
Speaker 1: Regulation governing physical examinations to the Foreign Services prescribed that
Speaker 1: amputation of any portion of a limb, except fingers and toes,
Speaker 1: is a cause for rejection, and it would not be
Speaker 1: possible for Miss Hall to qualify for entry into the
Speaker 1: service under these regulations. Virginia suspected that her disability was
Speaker 1: not the major factor in her rejection, noting that of
Speaker 1: the nearly fift career Foreign Service officers, they claimed only
Speaker 1: six female operatives. She stayed in Venice for another year,
Speaker 1: making several appeals, all rejected. Finally, in nine she resigned
Speaker 1: from consul work and moved to Paris, France, which she
Speaker 1: planned to mend her wounded pride. But the Paris that
Speaker 1: Virginia now called home wasn't the romantic city of legend.
Speaker 1: It had become a powder keg of anti Semitism, spurred
Speaker 1: on by the sudden appearance of Jewish refugees from Germany,
Speaker 1: Austria and Czechoslovakia who escaped their home countries after the
Speaker 1: horrific Crystal Knocked in November. Crystal Knocked or the Night
Speaker 1: of Broken Glass, was a radical turning point for Europe.
Speaker 1: Two days after seventeen year old Herschel grin Spawn, a
Speaker 1: German born Jew, assassinated German diplomat Ernst bron Rod in Paris.
Speaker 1: The Nazis used this as an excuse to launch a
Speaker 1: full fledged assault on Jewish citizens across Germany. They left
Speaker 1: the sea of blood and bodies in their wake. Here's
Speaker 1: Herman's Erring and Lora Oppenheimer, former co presidents of the
Speaker 1: Society of the Survivors of the Riga Ghetto, reflecting on
Speaker 1: their experiences of that horrific night. At the time there
Speaker 1: we were in our house. We had a curfew. We
Speaker 1: were not allowed to go out after certain times, after
Speaker 1: nine o'clock, I believe and then the s a storm
Speaker 1: toopers that they booke all the Jewish stores, lovely glass.
Speaker 1: They took everything out they could. They start making fires
Speaker 1: in the synagogues. Not only were the stores all destroyed,
Speaker 1: in the apartments of paintings and pictures, they just demolished everything, everything, everything,
Speaker 1: the pictures were cut, I mean everything. They just whatever
Speaker 1: Jew owned was just. Business was closed. After that, nobody
Speaker 1: was allowed to do any more business. More on Crystal
Speaker 1: Knocks and how it led to the Holocaust. When we
Speaker 1: come back from the break, the doctor unt again. Over
Speaker 1: the next two horrible days in late Jews were the
Speaker 1: targets of an unprecedented attack throughout Germany, the program known
Speaker 1: as Crystal Knock or the Night of Broken Glass. So
Speaker 1: nearly a hundred Jewish bodies mutilate in the streets, and
Speaker 1: thousands of Jewish homes and approximately businesses, hospitals, and places
Speaker 1: of worship vandalized and destroyed. More than thirty thousand men,
Speaker 1: women and children were rounded up and shipped off to
Speaker 1: concentration camps. Nas Team Approud brought to Britain two hundred
Speaker 1: Jewish children refugees from Germany. Many of these children all
Speaker 1: others have parisfit and concentration camps in Germany. The parts
Speaker 1: of the German cities that once housed vibrant and healthy
Speaker 1: Jewish communities were rendered ghost towns. As any survivors quickly
Speaker 1: made their way into France. So at last the one
Speaker 1: rust find rest in Lens, which cherished freedom. But after arriving,
Speaker 1: the immigrating Jews weren't met with a welcoming party. The French,
Speaker 1: who were Germany's enemies in World War One two decades earlier,
Speaker 1: refused to see a distinction between the German Jews and Nazis.
Speaker 1: To them, they were all Germans, and Germans were enemies.
Speaker 1: Several months after Crystal Knock, Virginia sent a postcard home,
Speaker 1: and so the catastrophe has come. I can't begin to
Speaker 1: express the horror I feel at this useless slaughter being
Speaker 1: embarked upon, caused by the usual enemies of the civilized world.
Speaker 1: Everything here is quiet. I am staying love to all Virginia.
Speaker 1: That's Brad Katling, Virginia's great nephew. Brad is currently working
Speaker 1: on a photo book about his great aunt's life and work,
Speaker 1: and in the course of his research, he came across
Speaker 1: the postcard to Brad this note stands out. I think
Speaker 1: that it was really Virginia's first commitment to obviously staying
Speaker 1: in your during the course for the war, and by
Speaker 1: recognizing how violent the usual enemies of the civilized world were,
Speaker 1: She's really committing herself, you know, her life, to participating somehow.
Speaker 1: She doesn't know how yet. These are today's main events.
Speaker 1: Germany has invaded Poland and has bummed many times general mobilization.
Speaker 1: The following year, on September one, Hitler would launch World
Speaker 1: War two with an attack on Poland. France and Great Britain,
Speaker 1: which had mostly ignored Hitler's conquests up to that point
Speaker 1: of Austria and Czecho Slovakia had effectively entered the war
Speaker 1: with a promised to defend Poland from invasion. With that,
Speaker 1: Virginia Hall found herself without Steady employed him in a
Speaker 1: hostile country, an American woman with European sentiments who pitied
Speaker 1: the Jews and was forced to navigate French hostility. But
Speaker 1: Virginia wasn't alone. She met other like minded progressives, including
Speaker 1: her best friend and neighbor Claire de Latour, who spurned
Speaker 1: the war due to letters from her brother Jean Paul,
Speaker 1: a soldier fighting on the imagine No line. The Imagineo
Speaker 1: was a line of defense against the advancing German forces
Speaker 1: created by the French and the Belgian and Swiss borders,
Speaker 1: and it was considered France's impenetrable defense system. Virginia spoke
Speaker 1: fluent French, but we've asked our actor to speak English
Speaker 1: with a French accent to imply the language they conversed
Speaker 1: in says a German's fights backwards, and we have nothing
Speaker 1: to be afraid of, Claire. They have been winning, or
Speaker 1: they have not been winning, Virginia. They been attacking countries
Speaker 1: with no defenses, no armies. That is not winning, That
Speaker 1: is bullying. They are gaining territory. I'm not general, but
Speaker 1: I'm smart enough to know that's how you win was
Speaker 1: That's how you killed the morale of your enemy. So
Speaker 1: these victories are something we should think seriously. Don't you think?
Speaker 1: I do think it seriously. You don't need to preach
Speaker 1: to me. Of you Americans will be the last foot
Speaker 1: in the water. What do you plan to do, Virginia
Speaker 1: with all your concern are you going to just talk
Speaker 1: in circles and worry or are you going to step up.
Speaker 1: She didn't know it at the time, but her friend
Speaker 1: Claire had successfully lit a fire in Virginia's belly. Virginia
Speaker 1: had every intention of stepping up and getting her hands dirty.
Speaker 1: Coming up on this season of good Assassins, a devious
Speaker 1: and double crossing Nazi priest, elaborate dental work and disguises,
Speaker 1: and a dangerous trek across a mountain range to escape
Speaker 1: the most terrifying villains in world history. We'll bring you
Speaker 1: daring sabotage plots that change the entire course of World
Speaker 1: War Two, all led by a woman the Nazis were
Speaker 1: determined to track down and exterminate. It's a season a
Speaker 1: thrilling espionage and brutal war stories as we follow Virginia
Speaker 1: Hall's ascent from clerk to international spy to guerrilla war leader.
Speaker 1: One thing is for sure, you've never heard a story
Speaker 1: like this. Listen to episode two right now. Sometimes they're
Speaker 1: actively getting shot at by the Germans, and so you're
Speaker 1: dodging artilleries shelves yourself. And within just a few days,
Speaker 1: the Germans have actually pierced through a natural barrier the
Speaker 1: forests of the Auden region, which no one was defending
Speaker 1: you're going to London. Yes, I could use a breather
Speaker 1: in a place where the airs and stiff. I have
Speaker 1: encountered a most interesting prospect, a woman whom I believe
Speaker 1: could make a valuable asset. If you have any questions
Speaker 1: for us about Good Assassins, if you're curious about some
Speaker 1: aspect of Virginia Hall story, or have any comments on
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Speaker 1: hosted by Steven Talti and written by C. D. Carpenter,
Speaker 1: Produced and directed by Kevin Thompson for Real Jet Packs Productions.
Speaker 1: Story editing by Jacob Bronstein with editorial direction from Scott Waxman,
Speaker 1: additional research and reporting by Sophie McNulty. Theme music by
Speaker 1: Tyler Cash featuring the voices of michaela Is Caerdo, Raphael
Speaker 1: cork Kill, Lenna Klingeman, John pier Case, Andrew polk or Lock,
Speaker 1: Cassidy Manoel Falciano, Sean Gormley, Matthew Amant and Steve Raupman.
Speaker 1: Sound design, mixing and mastering by Paul Goodrich. Sound editing
Speaker 1: by Justin Kilpatrick. Executive producers Jacob Bronstein, Mark Francis and
Speaker 1: Scott Waxman for Diversion Audio SI Diversion Audio