1 00:00:07,080 --> 00:00:16,520 Speaker 1: Diversion audio. A note this episode contains descriptions of violence 2 00:00:16,640 --> 00:00:20,079 Speaker 1: that may be disturbing for some audiences. Please take care 3 00:00:20,120 --> 00:00:25,959 Speaker 1: in listening. This series is based on historical characters and 4 00:00:26,000 --> 00:00:30,280 Speaker 1: real events. Some dialogue has been imagined for dramatic purposes 5 00:00:30,480 --> 00:00:37,000 Speaker 1: when no primary source material is available. No I know. 6 00:00:38,880 --> 00:00:43,320 Speaker 1: The first time Virginia Hall met Vera Atkins in February, 7 00:00:43,720 --> 00:00:47,840 Speaker 1: she believed the woman was nothing more than another airheaded socialite. 8 00:00:48,680 --> 00:00:52,199 Speaker 1: Vera had been hosting a party, decked out in lavish clothes, 9 00:00:52,560 --> 00:00:56,160 Speaker 1: relaxing on expensive furniture, and doing her best to entertain 10 00:00:56,200 --> 00:01:00,560 Speaker 1: her guests. But now, two weeks after the party, as 11 00:01:00,640 --> 00:01:03,760 Speaker 1: Virginia sat across from Vera in a high end restaurant 12 00:01:03,760 --> 00:01:08,360 Speaker 1: in central London, the woman's demeanor seemed very different. The 13 00:01:08,440 --> 00:01:11,360 Speaker 1: day before, she'd asked Virginia to meet her in a 14 00:01:11,440 --> 00:01:15,440 Speaker 1: phone call with hushed tones. She carried with her a 15 00:01:15,480 --> 00:01:19,680 Speaker 1: sense of urgency. Virginia didn't associate with the airy, lavish 16 00:01:19,760 --> 00:01:24,679 Speaker 1: lifestyles of the ridge. Vera. I don't want to give 17 00:01:24,680 --> 00:01:27,720 Speaker 1: you the wrong idea, but there's no way I'll be 18 00:01:27,760 --> 00:01:33,360 Speaker 1: able to afford anything on this menu. I know it 19 00:01:33,440 --> 00:01:39,640 Speaker 1: will be taken care of you made quite a scene 20 00:01:39,640 --> 00:01:45,360 Speaker 1: at my policy, Virginia. Suddenly, Virginia remembered her appearance at 21 00:01:45,440 --> 00:01:48,720 Speaker 1: Vera's home. After a few too many glasses of wine. 22 00:01:49,200 --> 00:01:53,360 Speaker 1: She granted loudly about her distaste for the Nazis, without 23 00:01:53,400 --> 00:01:56,680 Speaker 1: considering that somebody at the party might have been sympathetic 24 00:01:56,720 --> 00:02:01,640 Speaker 1: to the Germans. Ah, I'm sorry, I just think be 25 00:02:03,520 --> 00:02:08,720 Speaker 1: I'm merely curious. How far are you willing to go? 26 00:02:10,440 --> 00:02:14,160 Speaker 1: Virginia Bristle did this, not entirely sure what Vera meant, 27 00:02:14,560 --> 00:02:19,200 Speaker 1: but annoyed nevertheless at the obvious challenge. But as Vera continued, 28 00:02:19,520 --> 00:02:22,280 Speaker 1: Virginia couldn't help but be fascinated by what she was 29 00:02:22,320 --> 00:02:26,760 Speaker 1: telling her. Vera explained that she was an intelligence officer 30 00:02:26,960 --> 00:02:31,400 Speaker 1: with a Special Operations Executive, the s o E. The 31 00:02:31,480 --> 00:02:36,680 Speaker 1: year before, in Winston Churchill became Britain's Prime Minister and 32 00:02:36,800 --> 00:02:39,920 Speaker 1: months later created the s o E for the purpose 33 00:02:40,000 --> 00:02:45,120 Speaker 1: of surveying overseas operations and coordinating action against agents who 34 00:02:45,160 --> 00:02:50,160 Speaker 1: meant harm to British interests. So they have an intelligence service, 35 00:02:50,560 --> 00:02:54,440 Speaker 1: the equivalent to the CIA that existed pre World War Two. 36 00:02:54,720 --> 00:02:58,040 Speaker 1: It was called the Secret Intelligence Service or m I six. 37 00:02:59,040 --> 00:03:03,280 Speaker 1: That's Chris Costa from previous episodes. He's the executive director 38 00:03:03,520 --> 00:03:07,760 Speaker 1: of the International Spy Museum m I six ran agents, 39 00:03:07,880 --> 00:03:13,480 Speaker 1: meaning they recruited, as I said, individuals that could provide intelligence. 40 00:03:13,800 --> 00:03:17,760 Speaker 1: But that wasn't good enough for Churchill when Britain went 41 00:03:17,800 --> 00:03:22,640 Speaker 1: to war, so he said. Churchill said, we need somebody 42 00:03:22,680 --> 00:03:27,840 Speaker 1: to set Europe ablaze, and that was the mandate of 43 00:03:27,919 --> 00:03:34,360 Speaker 1: this Special Operations executive. Churchill wanted somebody to wreak havoc 44 00:03:34,560 --> 00:03:41,080 Speaker 1: on the battlefield. So sabotage plus a little espionage paramilitary 45 00:03:41,080 --> 00:03:46,600 Speaker 1: operations make things blow up. Apparently, the s OE needed 46 00:03:46,640 --> 00:03:49,880 Speaker 1: feet on the ground in France who could facilitate British 47 00:03:49,880 --> 00:03:54,160 Speaker 1: operatives with safe houses, information and escape routes out of 48 00:03:54,200 --> 00:03:58,520 Speaker 1: the country. You're offering me a post. I don't exactly 49 00:03:58,560 --> 00:04:06,520 Speaker 1: have an elegant hiring history with intelligence agencies. Virginia was 50 00:04:06,560 --> 00:04:10,280 Speaker 1: referring to her ten years in various American embassies, where 51 00:04:10,280 --> 00:04:14,520 Speaker 1: all her efforts for promotion were rejected by her various superiors, 52 00:04:15,000 --> 00:04:18,320 Speaker 1: all of them men. Of course, what do we need 53 00:04:18,680 --> 00:04:24,359 Speaker 1: our passionate, intelligent agents, people who know France, the country 54 00:04:24,360 --> 00:04:28,240 Speaker 1: and the language. According to our research, you have knowledge 55 00:04:28,240 --> 00:04:31,640 Speaker 1: of both and we need more young people. A lot 56 00:04:31,680 --> 00:04:36,760 Speaker 1: of our current connections are a bit mature, shall we say. 57 00:04:38,520 --> 00:04:41,480 Speaker 1: You could hear her taking a drag and her cigarette, 58 00:04:41,960 --> 00:04:47,520 Speaker 1: but she was extremely shrewd. That's Judith Pearson, who wrote 59 00:04:47,520 --> 00:04:51,120 Speaker 1: the first biography of Virginia Hall, The Wolves at the Door. 60 00:04:51,760 --> 00:04:56,960 Speaker 1: She's describing Vera Atkins. She was extremely well thought of 61 00:04:58,000 --> 00:05:02,080 Speaker 1: by the s o E, and they were desperate for 62 00:05:02,160 --> 00:05:05,960 Speaker 1: people who could speak French, who knew their way around France, 63 00:05:06,520 --> 00:05:10,120 Speaker 1: who had a bit of an attitude, and Virginia had 64 00:05:10,160 --> 00:05:15,919 Speaker 1: all those. The job would be difficult and Virginia's responsibilities numerous. 65 00:05:16,480 --> 00:05:19,839 Speaker 1: She wouldn't only shelter multiple spies in various safe houses 66 00:05:20,040 --> 00:05:22,640 Speaker 1: at any given time, but would be subject to the 67 00:05:22,640 --> 00:05:28,400 Speaker 1: gestapos interrogations at any moment. If any Virginia's compatriots found 68 00:05:28,400 --> 00:05:31,599 Speaker 1: themselves with their covers blown or sought out by the Nazis, 69 00:05:32,000 --> 00:05:34,920 Speaker 1: it would be her responsibility to keep them hidden in 70 00:05:34,960 --> 00:05:37,599 Speaker 1: the safe houses and navigate their way out of the 71 00:05:37,640 --> 00:05:41,880 Speaker 1: country and back to London. Virginia did have one key 72 00:05:41,880 --> 00:05:45,719 Speaker 1: advantage the s OE could leverage. She was American and 73 00:05:45,760 --> 00:05:50,599 Speaker 1: in the USA was still ostensibly neutral in World War Two. 74 00:05:51,120 --> 00:05:54,920 Speaker 1: As FDR said in late ninety there is no amm 75 00:05:55,279 --> 00:06:01,839 Speaker 1: forss sending an American expeditionary FOSS outside our border. There 76 00:06:02,160 --> 00:06:06,520 Speaker 1: is no intentiontion by and a member of your government 77 00:06:06,960 --> 00:06:12,000 Speaker 1: who send such a thought. At the time, Americans like 78 00:06:12,080 --> 00:06:15,880 Speaker 1: Virginia still had the latitude to live freely in France. 79 00:06:16,800 --> 00:06:20,440 Speaker 1: She would be tasked with transmitting German intelligence back to 80 00:06:20,480 --> 00:06:25,440 Speaker 1: the UK through wire transmissions and secret radio broadcasts, as 81 00:06:25,440 --> 00:06:29,159 Speaker 1: well as coordinating the pickup of pilots and weaponry that 82 00:06:29,320 --> 00:06:33,120 Speaker 1: fell out of British planes. All of this information over 83 00:06:33,279 --> 00:06:37,840 Speaker 1: single dinner could have been overwhelming. You know about my 84 00:06:37,960 --> 00:06:41,760 Speaker 1: leg If it doesn't bother you, it doesn't bother us. 85 00:06:43,200 --> 00:06:45,880 Speaker 1: Virginia couldn't deny how much the job seemed too good 86 00:06:45,880 --> 00:06:48,800 Speaker 1: to be true. For nearly a decade, she had been 87 00:06:48,800 --> 00:06:52,680 Speaker 1: rejected from promotions and positions of authority in the American government. 88 00:06:53,279 --> 00:06:55,880 Speaker 1: She'd wanted to serve all this time, and yet was 89 00:06:55,920 --> 00:06:59,719 Speaker 1: dismissed for every reason under the sun. She was a 90 00:06:59,760 --> 00:07:04,120 Speaker 1: one it, she was handicapped, she didn't have the right attitude, 91 00:07:04,920 --> 00:07:07,960 Speaker 1: and suddenly here she was in the presence of a 92 00:07:08,080 --> 00:07:12,320 Speaker 1: real life spy offering her responsibilities. She had only ever 93 00:07:12,440 --> 00:07:17,520 Speaker 1: dreamed of. Her response was succinct. When do I start, 94 00:07:27,480 --> 00:07:31,560 Speaker 1: I'm Stephen Talty and from diversion, this is good Assassin's 95 00:07:31,600 --> 00:07:35,760 Speaker 1: Season two. Being killed would be the easy part. Being 96 00:07:35,840 --> 00:07:40,040 Speaker 1: tortured would be the hard part. Our intel suggests she 97 00:07:40,280 --> 00:07:43,400 Speaker 1: is behind many of the prison bricks all over the country. 98 00:07:44,240 --> 00:07:51,680 Speaker 1: She's dangerous, so sabotage plus a little espionage paramilitary operations 99 00:07:51,960 --> 00:07:56,000 Speaker 1: make things blow up. The message for Captain Bobby and 100 00:07:56,680 --> 00:07:59,960 Speaker 1: I believe I have found the nest of the limb 101 00:08:00,040 --> 00:08:12,080 Speaker 1: being Lady Episode four Spy Games. All right, man much. 102 00:08:17,440 --> 00:08:20,440 Speaker 1: When Virginia arrived in Guildford in the UK in March 103 00:08:20,480 --> 00:08:25,960 Speaker 1: of for s o E training, she was given a nickname. Really, 104 00:08:26,120 --> 00:08:29,680 Speaker 1: the nickname was meant for her prosthetic leg. It was 105 00:08:29,760 --> 00:08:33,720 Speaker 1: dubbed Cuthbert as some of the other recruits joked she 106 00:08:33,760 --> 00:08:35,760 Speaker 1: could use the limb as a sword in a pinch. 107 00:08:36,800 --> 00:08:40,440 Speaker 1: They confused the word with cutlass, but Virginia felt like 108 00:08:40,480 --> 00:08:43,640 Speaker 1: correcting them would give her a reputation as a know 109 00:08:43,800 --> 00:08:48,120 Speaker 1: it all. It was a cross introduction, but Virginia knew 110 00:08:48,200 --> 00:08:52,320 Speaker 1: she'd have to expect worse from the Nazis. She never 111 00:08:52,360 --> 00:08:59,160 Speaker 1: told anybody that's Brad Catling, Virginia's great nephew. Apparently Virginia 112 00:08:59,280 --> 00:09:03,040 Speaker 1: never told the family this story, and in fact Katling 113 00:09:03,120 --> 00:09:07,000 Speaker 1: has a different theory on why Virginia culture pathetic. Cuthbert 114 00:09:07,800 --> 00:09:11,880 Speaker 1: Cuthbert was St. Cuthbert who lived in the eight hundreds, 115 00:09:12,640 --> 00:09:17,400 Speaker 1: and he lived on the northeastern coast of England, right 116 00:09:17,440 --> 00:09:21,320 Speaker 1: on the coast. But today if you go there, it's 117 00:09:21,320 --> 00:09:27,439 Speaker 1: a bird sanctuary and you know they're gazillion nesting birds 118 00:09:27,480 --> 00:09:31,640 Speaker 1: that are there all the time. But St. Cuthbert was 119 00:09:31,679 --> 00:09:36,120 Speaker 1: actually given credit for saving all of these birds or 120 00:09:36,160 --> 00:09:40,440 Speaker 1: protecting all of these birds. And he also had an 121 00:09:40,440 --> 00:09:45,480 Speaker 1: injured knee that had given him trouble, but it ended 122 00:09:45,520 --> 00:09:52,800 Speaker 1: up being cured through a miracle. That's the story anyway. 123 00:09:53,440 --> 00:09:56,880 Speaker 1: So Cuthbert fits on a number of different levels. First 124 00:09:56,920 --> 00:10:01,319 Speaker 1: of all, in Turkey, she was hunting for birds, and 125 00:10:01,400 --> 00:10:05,760 Speaker 1: so if St. Cuthbert is the protector of the birds, 126 00:10:05,840 --> 00:10:08,240 Speaker 1: then he saved the bird that she was trying to shoot. 127 00:10:09,400 --> 00:10:14,400 Speaker 1: And choosing Cuthbert is also aspirational for her because he 128 00:10:14,520 --> 00:10:21,080 Speaker 1: was eventually healed, the next few weeks would test her metal. 129 00:10:21,920 --> 00:10:27,120 Speaker 1: She didn't have to worry about oral examinations or office politics. Anymore. Instead, 130 00:10:27,520 --> 00:10:36,360 Speaker 1: she was training for combat, demolition, and survival. Keep your 131 00:10:36,440 --> 00:10:42,600 Speaker 1: aunts up, Cuthbert, heads up, for you'll get knocked down. 132 00:10:50,400 --> 00:10:54,679 Speaker 1: The camp was full of volunteers. Trainees were dropping like flies, 133 00:10:55,160 --> 00:10:59,560 Speaker 1: getting cut for different reasons. Some were too slow, others 134 00:10:59,559 --> 00:11:02,840 Speaker 1: were too hockey. Some couldn't keep their mouth shut and 135 00:11:02,880 --> 00:11:07,240 Speaker 1: were deemed incapable of protecting valuable intel. The s O 136 00:11:07,520 --> 00:11:12,439 Speaker 1: couldn't risk their agents cracking, and the Nazis were brutal interrogators. 137 00:11:13,080 --> 00:11:15,920 Speaker 1: Virginia's reality began to set in when she noticed the 138 00:11:16,000 --> 00:11:20,720 Speaker 1: number of her compatriots was whittling down every day. The 139 00:11:20,800 --> 00:11:25,080 Speaker 1: exercises were merciless. She was put through hours and hours 140 00:11:25,080 --> 00:11:28,839 Speaker 1: of mock interrogations that involved splashing cold water over her 141 00:11:28,840 --> 00:11:33,000 Speaker 1: head until her lips turned blue. Her memory was challenged. 142 00:11:33,400 --> 00:11:36,480 Speaker 1: Could she walk into a room with fifteen people and then, 143 00:11:36,559 --> 00:11:41,360 Speaker 1: after twenty seconds, accurately described the facial features, clothing, and 144 00:11:41,480 --> 00:11:45,800 Speaker 1: demeanor of every person. Virginia was trained in Morse code 145 00:11:46,240 --> 00:11:50,640 Speaker 1: and tasks with transmitting it over a secret radio. The 146 00:11:50,760 --> 00:11:53,959 Speaker 1: volunteers deemed not up to snuff were sent up north 147 00:11:54,120 --> 00:11:56,840 Speaker 1: to an isolated estate, where they were kept for a 148 00:11:56,840 --> 00:11:59,559 Speaker 1: few weeks until the intel they were already privy to 149 00:12:00,160 --> 00:12:02,839 Speaker 1: was no longer of use to the British or the enemy. 150 00:12:03,720 --> 00:12:07,120 Speaker 1: The prospect of being sent up North began to haunt 151 00:12:07,200 --> 00:12:10,720 Speaker 1: Virginia's nightmares. She had come this far and now she 152 00:12:10,800 --> 00:12:20,000 Speaker 1: was terrified of failing. Virginia, wake up, what you're moving on? 153 00:12:21,040 --> 00:12:26,440 Speaker 1: Moving on? Wait? Please don't hand me up North North. 154 00:12:27,080 --> 00:12:29,720 Speaker 1: We're not sending you up North? Is your next session? 155 00:12:30,080 --> 00:12:37,360 Speaker 1: Performance training? Get dressed. After she had proven herself physically, 156 00:12:37,800 --> 00:12:41,599 Speaker 1: Virginia was placed in the next tier manners. As the 157 00:12:41,679 --> 00:12:44,920 Speaker 1: Bridge saw it, Virginia was a shoot from the hip, outspoken, 158 00:12:45,080 --> 00:12:48,880 Speaker 1: highly opinionated, independent woman. She would stick out like a 159 00:12:48,920 --> 00:12:52,960 Speaker 1: sore thumb in France and attract lots of unnecessary attention. 160 00:12:53,600 --> 00:12:56,720 Speaker 1: They'd have to change her, train her to hide her 161 00:12:56,720 --> 00:13:00,320 Speaker 1: American accent, to not look around like a tourist, to 162 00:13:00,400 --> 00:13:04,760 Speaker 1: blend in without suspicion, and that was easier said than done. 163 00:13:05,600 --> 00:13:08,640 Speaker 1: As her three week training session began to wind down, 164 00:13:09,240 --> 00:13:12,360 Speaker 1: she left behind etiquette and leveled up to the final 165 00:13:12,400 --> 00:13:16,200 Speaker 1: tier of weapons training. Here she received a tip she 166 00:13:16,320 --> 00:13:20,360 Speaker 1: didn't expect. Her weapons instructor informed her that have given 167 00:13:20,400 --> 00:13:23,640 Speaker 1: a choice between wounding and Nazi and killing him. She 168 00:13:23,640 --> 00:13:28,240 Speaker 1: should always wound him. If you kill him, they'll just 169 00:13:28,360 --> 00:13:30,840 Speaker 1: leave the body behind. If you put him in the 170 00:13:30,880 --> 00:13:35,520 Speaker 1: infirm right, his higher ups get paperwack. Keep them busy 171 00:13:35,559 --> 00:13:39,840 Speaker 1: and distracted. The best Nazi is a dead Nazi. But 172 00:13:40,480 --> 00:13:48,280 Speaker 1: let's win the war first, shall I. Following eight weeks 173 00:13:48,320 --> 00:13:51,559 Speaker 1: of lifestyle training and then mastery of weapons and close 174 00:13:51,640 --> 00:13:56,200 Speaker 1: combat tactics, Virginia was left with a final trial, to 175 00:13:56,320 --> 00:13:59,120 Speaker 1: be dropped off in the nearby village of wine Borough 176 00:13:59,480 --> 00:14:01,720 Speaker 1: and given a list of duties she had to complete 177 00:14:01,920 --> 00:14:05,840 Speaker 1: in one week. She had a fine safe house, receive 178 00:14:05,960 --> 00:14:09,920 Speaker 1: and transmit sensitive information via Morse code, and then ship 179 00:14:09,920 --> 00:14:13,160 Speaker 1: a package out of town. All of this had to 180 00:14:13,160 --> 00:14:17,280 Speaker 1: be done while several other volunteers sought her out. If 181 00:14:17,320 --> 00:14:20,800 Speaker 1: she was discovered or if any of her information confiscated, 182 00:14:21,280 --> 00:14:24,720 Speaker 1: she'd have to start her entire training process over, and 183 00:14:24,840 --> 00:14:28,160 Speaker 1: she failed twice, she would in fact be sent up north. 184 00:14:29,440 --> 00:14:32,440 Speaker 1: At the end of the week, Virginia had successfully evaded 185 00:14:32,440 --> 00:14:35,920 Speaker 1: her searchers and completed all of her tasks. The sa 186 00:14:35,960 --> 00:14:42,120 Speaker 1: we decided she was ready. So what Virginia Hall, what 187 00:14:42,360 --> 00:14:45,400 Speaker 1: have learned is how to set up a safe house, 188 00:14:45,720 --> 00:14:50,320 Speaker 1: how to recruit support agents, meaning people to be a 189 00:14:50,360 --> 00:14:56,160 Speaker 1: part of her network to collect intelligence. That's Chris Costa again. 190 00:14:57,320 --> 00:15:00,520 Speaker 1: She would have learned how to shoot, she would have 191 00:15:00,600 --> 00:15:04,080 Speaker 1: learned hand to hand combat. She would have gone through 192 00:15:04,160 --> 00:15:09,320 Speaker 1: various obstacle courses. You learn about dead drops. Some people 193 00:15:09,480 --> 00:15:14,920 Speaker 1: in paramilitary operations special operations learn how to set up 194 00:15:15,160 --> 00:15:21,600 Speaker 1: pickup zones for aircraft or drop zones for night parachute operations. 195 00:15:21,680 --> 00:15:26,880 Speaker 1: So all of those combinations of skills gave Virginia Hall 196 00:15:27,560 --> 00:15:30,880 Speaker 1: a suite of tools that she can use. But it 197 00:15:30,960 --> 00:15:37,200 Speaker 1: was all iterative. It She never was fully prepared to 198 00:15:37,360 --> 00:15:41,320 Speaker 1: execute all the possible tasks that she could get to 199 00:15:41,480 --> 00:15:45,560 Speaker 1: survive on the battlefield. So that's where she relied on 200 00:15:45,600 --> 00:16:00,680 Speaker 1: her senses and her instincts and just her acumen. Uh, 201 00:16:01,120 --> 00:16:04,960 Speaker 1: you wanted to see me. You're shipping out, Custbert. We've 202 00:16:04,960 --> 00:16:08,640 Speaker 1: got a fly by in a month. But seeing as 203 00:16:08,640 --> 00:16:10,960 Speaker 1: how that leg of yours would kill you in a jump, 204 00:16:11,560 --> 00:16:14,600 Speaker 1: we're not parachuting you in. By the grace of God, 205 00:16:14,880 --> 00:16:18,040 Speaker 1: you were born an American, so you'll enter the country 206 00:16:18,120 --> 00:16:21,359 Speaker 1: legally and your cover will be that of an American journalist. 207 00:16:21,960 --> 00:16:25,480 Speaker 1: Sound good, I can make the jump, sir, and I 208 00:16:25,480 --> 00:16:28,440 Speaker 1: could make a soufle, but I wouldn't serve it to Churchill. 209 00:16:29,200 --> 00:16:33,280 Speaker 1: You'll go in legally. Where in France will I be stationed, 210 00:16:33,360 --> 00:16:38,040 Speaker 1: Sir Leon in the East. It's the Free Zone. It's 211 00:16:38,040 --> 00:16:41,720 Speaker 1: a strategic location for us. We've begun planting the seeds 212 00:16:41,720 --> 00:16:45,480 Speaker 1: of the resistance there, but it's also becoming a hotspot 213 00:16:45,560 --> 00:16:49,400 Speaker 1: for German activity. You'll be very busy both aiding our 214 00:16:49,480 --> 00:16:55,760 Speaker 1: men and gathering intel from the Nazis. Virginia heads into 215 00:16:55,760 --> 00:17:12,080 Speaker 1: the field after the break. Virginia Hall landed in Leone, 216 00:17:12,359 --> 00:17:17,560 Speaker 1: near France's eastern border, in August. Now she was on 217 00:17:17,600 --> 00:17:21,840 Speaker 1: her own. Her public alias was Brigitte le Contra, a 218 00:17:21,960 --> 00:17:24,960 Speaker 1: name picked out by Vera Atkins would become something of 219 00:17:24,960 --> 00:17:28,800 Speaker 1: a friend and her unofficial handler and the special operations 220 00:17:28,840 --> 00:17:33,159 Speaker 1: executive for the British government. Virginia's code name was to 221 00:17:33,200 --> 00:17:36,679 Speaker 1: be German. Now she had to get used to responding 222 00:17:36,720 --> 00:17:40,880 Speaker 1: to Brigitte, which was easier said than done. She found 223 00:17:40,920 --> 00:17:44,720 Speaker 1: cheap boarding in Leone, but needed her cover. She called 224 00:17:44,760 --> 00:17:46,959 Speaker 1: on an old family friend who worked at the New 225 00:17:47,040 --> 00:17:50,359 Speaker 1: York Post newspaper, and pitched herself as a culture and 226 00:17:50,400 --> 00:17:55,560 Speaker 1: politics reporter stationed in France. Weeks of interrogation training made 227 00:17:55,560 --> 00:17:59,680 Speaker 1: the job interview fly by well, Michel. If you can 228 00:17:59,720 --> 00:18:04,639 Speaker 1: do the job safely, it's yours. Virginia was employed by 229 00:18:04,640 --> 00:18:07,199 Speaker 1: the New York Post, so she had her cover and 230 00:18:07,280 --> 00:18:10,600 Speaker 1: was ready for action. Now she'd have to bury all 231 00:18:10,600 --> 00:18:13,680 Speaker 1: her s OE training under the guise of an American 232 00:18:13,760 --> 00:18:17,439 Speaker 1: leading a normal expatriate life in France, she had to 233 00:18:17,520 --> 00:18:21,680 Speaker 1: blend in. It didn't take long for Virginia to hook 234 00:18:21,720 --> 00:18:25,480 Speaker 1: into the resistance network and leone. The s O had 235 00:18:25,480 --> 00:18:28,320 Speaker 1: given her a number of British and French contacts she 236 00:18:28,400 --> 00:18:31,359 Speaker 1: could lean on in the pinch, and under the guise 237 00:18:31,440 --> 00:18:35,560 Speaker 1: of a neutral American reporting lifestyle pieces, she was able 238 00:18:35,600 --> 00:18:40,240 Speaker 1: to travel the region with relative ease. Her first article 239 00:18:40,320 --> 00:18:45,040 Speaker 1: for the Post, dated September four, detail the reality of 240 00:18:45,080 --> 00:18:50,040 Speaker 1: living under German food rations. The country's food was prioritized 241 00:18:50,080 --> 00:18:53,119 Speaker 1: for the Germans, a flexive power that matched with the 242 00:18:53,200 --> 00:18:56,439 Speaker 1: Statute des Wife, a law passed in v She, France 243 00:18:56,480 --> 00:19:00,280 Speaker 1: the previous year in October ninety that had to aired 244 00:19:00,320 --> 00:19:03,880 Speaker 1: all Jews second class citizens and strip them of their 245 00:19:03,960 --> 00:19:07,879 Speaker 1: human rights. Virginia had to be careful about her writing 246 00:19:08,000 --> 00:19:11,280 Speaker 1: as it pertained to choose. Even if it was published 247 00:19:11,320 --> 00:19:14,160 Speaker 1: across the ocean in America, the word could get back 248 00:19:14,160 --> 00:19:17,879 Speaker 1: to France and compromise her position. She was critical of 249 00:19:17,880 --> 00:19:21,200 Speaker 1: the Nazi occupation, but always wrote in a way where 250 00:19:21,240 --> 00:19:25,240 Speaker 1: she could maintain plausible deniability. She had a right facts 251 00:19:25,600 --> 00:19:35,119 Speaker 1: not commentary. OUI. I was told to me that doctor 252 00:19:35,200 --> 00:19:40,120 Speaker 1: Roussett here, have you treated the cats on the roof? Yes? 253 00:19:40,480 --> 00:19:45,960 Speaker 1: But they won't take Brandy. It is wonderful to meet you, Brigitte. 254 00:19:46,880 --> 00:19:49,520 Speaker 1: If we are still calling you that until I come 255 00:19:49,600 --> 00:19:56,159 Speaker 1: up with something catchy. After a few weeks exploring the 256 00:19:56,200 --> 00:19:59,920 Speaker 1: city of Leon, Virginia, was introduced to doctor Jean Bussey, 257 00:20:00,000 --> 00:20:06,080 Speaker 1: a gynecologist and major support system for the resistance. So 258 00:20:06,800 --> 00:20:11,160 Speaker 1: you are the newest addition to the resistance. I was curious, 259 00:20:11,200 --> 00:20:13,600 Speaker 1: when we get a woman. That's not going to be 260 00:20:13,600 --> 00:20:16,119 Speaker 1: a problem, is it not. If you can shoot straight 261 00:20:16,240 --> 00:20:19,000 Speaker 1: and run a mile, just give me something to shoot 262 00:20:19,119 --> 00:20:23,440 Speaker 1: and a place to go, we are going to get 263 00:20:23,480 --> 00:20:29,560 Speaker 1: on just fine. Now to business. There is a pilot 264 00:20:29,560 --> 00:20:32,440 Speaker 1: who's playing was shut down last week. He has been 265 00:20:32,480 --> 00:20:34,800 Speaker 1: holed up in a safe house and claims to a 266 00:20:34,960 --> 00:20:38,119 Speaker 1: valuable information. We need you to get him out of 267 00:20:38,119 --> 00:20:42,959 Speaker 1: the country and back to London. Just like that. This 268 00:20:43,080 --> 00:20:46,639 Speaker 1: job doesn't come with a lot of preamble. You're hoping 269 00:20:46,640 --> 00:20:51,960 Speaker 1: to do some good, aren't you? So yes, just like that? Okay, 270 00:20:52,000 --> 00:20:57,399 Speaker 1: then tell me where he is. Virginia's instructions were simple. 271 00:20:57,960 --> 00:21:00,040 Speaker 1: At the edge of town, she left a letter in 272 00:21:00,080 --> 00:21:03,840 Speaker 1: the mailbox of a small farmhouse and returned home to 273 00:21:03,920 --> 00:21:07,520 Speaker 1: a layman's eye. The note described happy birthday wishes, but 274 00:21:07,680 --> 00:21:11,280 Speaker 1: actually functioned as code. The down British pilot inside the 275 00:21:11,320 --> 00:21:14,359 Speaker 1: farmhouse was to meet her in a nearby cafe the 276 00:21:14,440 --> 00:21:20,280 Speaker 1: next evening. There the two would discuss his escape road. 277 00:21:22,080 --> 00:21:25,760 Speaker 1: The pilot was a nervous wreck. He detailed his harrowing 278 00:21:25,760 --> 00:21:30,320 Speaker 1: mission to Virginia anxiously forgetting they were in public. A 279 00:21:30,359 --> 00:21:33,119 Speaker 1: week earlier, during an aerial dog fight somewhere in the 280 00:21:33,119 --> 00:21:37,280 Speaker 1: skies above southern France, a barrage of Nazi gunfire blew 281 00:21:37,320 --> 00:21:40,399 Speaker 1: through his left wing, and he had bailed later than 282 00:21:40,440 --> 00:21:46,480 Speaker 1: he would have liked. The first thing to realize is 283 00:21:46,520 --> 00:21:50,960 Speaker 1: that this is World War two. Nobody can eject that's 284 00:21:51,040 --> 00:21:55,680 Speaker 1: a modern concept that requires an adjective seat, a rocket 285 00:21:55,800 --> 00:21:59,359 Speaker 1: powered seat that shoots out of the plane. They don't 286 00:21:59,400 --> 00:22:03,600 Speaker 1: have those in World War Two aircraft. That's Andrew or 287 00:22:03,640 --> 00:22:07,800 Speaker 1: the professor of military history from Kansas State University. You've 288 00:22:07,840 --> 00:22:12,600 Speaker 1: heard him in earlier episodes. If your plane is damaged, 289 00:22:13,040 --> 00:22:16,439 Speaker 1: there are two ways to escape. One is to crash, 290 00:22:16,560 --> 00:22:20,000 Speaker 1: land the plane right, to find an open place and 291 00:22:20,160 --> 00:22:23,840 Speaker 1: land the land your damage plane. The other option is 292 00:22:23,880 --> 00:22:27,400 Speaker 1: to bail out. You have to hold the plane steady, 293 00:22:27,840 --> 00:22:30,920 Speaker 1: open a door if it's a big plane, or open 294 00:22:31,040 --> 00:22:35,359 Speaker 1: the canopy and manually if it's a small plane, and 295 00:22:35,640 --> 00:22:40,800 Speaker 1: climb out of the airplane at speed. It's a heroine 296 00:22:40,920 --> 00:22:46,359 Speaker 1: and very dangerous experience. As the pilot floated to Earth, 297 00:22:46,760 --> 00:22:49,679 Speaker 1: he assumed the enemy plane would fire through his parachute. 298 00:22:50,280 --> 00:22:52,359 Speaker 1: It was only by the grace of God, he said 299 00:22:52,720 --> 00:22:55,480 Speaker 1: that the German didn't come back and finish the job. 300 00:22:56,480 --> 00:23:00,920 Speaker 1: But landing safely wasn't the end of his problems. When 301 00:23:00,920 --> 00:23:04,160 Speaker 1: you hit the ground, you're in a lot of trouble 302 00:23:04,840 --> 00:23:09,399 Speaker 1: because the enemy knows about your aircraft. They know it 303 00:23:09,520 --> 00:23:13,680 Speaker 1: got shot down because they did the shooting. They've already 304 00:23:13,720 --> 00:23:19,040 Speaker 1: alerted local security forces. Eventually, you're gonna need food, you're 305 00:23:19,040 --> 00:23:22,760 Speaker 1: gonna need help. You usually end up knocking on a 306 00:23:22,880 --> 00:23:27,919 Speaker 1: door or approaching somebody when they're by themselves, and it 307 00:23:28,040 --> 00:23:31,600 Speaker 1: has to be by themselves because the more people who 308 00:23:31,640 --> 00:23:34,879 Speaker 1: see you, the more likely one of them is loyal 309 00:23:35,000 --> 00:23:38,600 Speaker 1: to v she and will turn you in. So you're 310 00:23:38,640 --> 00:23:44,920 Speaker 1: basically playing Russian roulette. You're gambling that the person you 311 00:23:44,960 --> 00:23:48,920 Speaker 1: find will be sympathetic and hook you up with the Resistance, 312 00:23:49,760 --> 00:23:52,440 Speaker 1: or at least feed you and not rack you out 313 00:23:52,480 --> 00:23:57,200 Speaker 1: to the Germans. Dog fights above Leone have become commonplace 314 00:23:57,520 --> 00:24:01,679 Speaker 1: since the Nazis realized the British will dropping valuable weapons, food, 315 00:24:02,040 --> 00:24:06,080 Speaker 1: and medicine to specific drop zones in the countryside. It 316 00:24:06,160 --> 00:24:07,960 Speaker 1: was a fast and easy way for the s o 317 00:24:08,040 --> 00:24:13,320 Speaker 1: E to supply the resistance. Fighter planes dog fight to 318 00:24:13,440 --> 00:24:19,400 Speaker 1: try and stop German aircraft from attacking the larger, slower 319 00:24:19,920 --> 00:24:24,840 Speaker 1: bulk transports. So German fighters didn't want to dog fight 320 00:24:25,119 --> 00:24:29,760 Speaker 1: British or later American fighter planes. They wanted to get 321 00:24:29,800 --> 00:24:34,359 Speaker 1: at the transport planes, which were easy killed full of agents, 322 00:24:34,800 --> 00:24:39,040 Speaker 1: knock them down and win or described with These dog 323 00:24:39,119 --> 00:24:43,199 Speaker 1: fights looked like and a World War two. Fighter planes 324 00:24:43,240 --> 00:24:46,360 Speaker 1: could only shoot an enemy in front of them, so 325 00:24:46,600 --> 00:24:49,480 Speaker 1: getting behind or to the side of an enemy, but 326 00:24:49,560 --> 00:24:53,160 Speaker 1: with your plane facing your enemy was how you won 327 00:24:53,560 --> 00:24:57,280 Speaker 1: and also how you survived, because most of the time, 328 00:24:57,320 --> 00:25:00,000 Speaker 1: if a pilot could see and shoot at his end, 329 00:25:00,000 --> 00:25:03,439 Speaker 1: to me, that enemy couldn't shoot at him because of 330 00:25:03,480 --> 00:25:07,280 Speaker 1: the way physics worked. And so you had these fairly 331 00:25:07,480 --> 00:25:11,720 Speaker 1: compact battles, those which really almost looked like a ball 332 00:25:11,800 --> 00:25:17,640 Speaker 1: of string, with multiple aircraft turning and turning repeatedly trying 333 00:25:17,680 --> 00:25:20,760 Speaker 1: to get an enemy to lose its line of fire 334 00:25:20,760 --> 00:25:24,520 Speaker 1: on them while they bring another enemy into their own 335 00:25:24,560 --> 00:25:34,600 Speaker 1: line of fire. Unique the pilot's tale rattled Virginia. He 336 00:25:34,680 --> 00:25:38,520 Speaker 1: quickly realized this wasn't training anymore. This was a man 337 00:25:38,520 --> 00:25:42,320 Speaker 1: would come shockingly close to death in the most dramatic way, 338 00:25:42,640 --> 00:25:44,399 Speaker 1: and he couldn't help it, wear it on his face. 339 00:25:45,320 --> 00:25:48,080 Speaker 1: Virginia got the impression that if he was this shaken, 340 00:25:48,359 --> 00:25:51,200 Speaker 1: he would attract attention, and she urged him to settle 341 00:25:51,240 --> 00:25:54,560 Speaker 1: down and accompany her out of the cafe. But the 342 00:25:54,600 --> 00:25:58,080 Speaker 1: pilot was adamant on remaining in public. For all he 343 00:25:58,160 --> 00:26:01,439 Speaker 1: knew Virginia could be a double agent and going somewhere 344 00:26:01,440 --> 00:26:05,400 Speaker 1: alone with her could be dangerous. Virginia tried to make 345 00:26:05,440 --> 00:26:07,959 Speaker 1: sense of this. Why meet with her at all? If 346 00:26:07,960 --> 00:26:10,679 Speaker 1: there was a possibility. She wasn't who she said she was. 347 00:26:11,720 --> 00:26:15,439 Speaker 1: She chalked it up to paranoia, and paranoia made sense. 348 00:26:16,440 --> 00:26:19,359 Speaker 1: Virginia was so lost in thought she almost didn't notice 349 00:26:19,359 --> 00:26:24,480 Speaker 1: a waiter approached their table. Bonjou, What would you like? 350 00:26:25,800 --> 00:26:32,399 Speaker 1: Just the water would be fine. I'd like a beer. Ok, 351 00:26:33,680 --> 00:26:38,640 Speaker 1: we don't sell beer water. He's just come from America. 352 00:26:38,800 --> 00:26:44,679 Speaker 1: It's his first time back in a while. Just t waters, 353 00:26:44,720 --> 00:26:50,120 Speaker 1: I will be back. The pilot had made a bad mistake. 354 00:26:50,960 --> 00:26:53,760 Speaker 1: Beer was no longer served in the occupied country, and 355 00:26:53,800 --> 00:26:55,800 Speaker 1: this would be something anyone who had been a citizen 356 00:26:55,840 --> 00:26:58,840 Speaker 1: of France for the past two years would know. The 357 00:26:59,080 --> 00:27:02,359 Speaker 1: entire restaurant was staring at them, but if they left, 358 00:27:02,600 --> 00:27:05,520 Speaker 1: it would be obvious they were hiding something. This was 359 00:27:05,560 --> 00:27:07,960 Speaker 1: the kind of thing that had tripped up Virginia in 360 00:27:08,000 --> 00:27:12,240 Speaker 1: her training. Now she was responsible for another agent's mistake. 361 00:27:14,960 --> 00:27:19,080 Speaker 1: That's when Virginia noticed them, two men dressed almost entirely 362 00:27:19,080 --> 00:27:23,160 Speaker 1: in black, getting up from their table and walking towards them. 363 00:27:23,200 --> 00:27:28,920 Speaker 1: They smirked with cold, dead eyes. There was no mistaking them. Gestapo, 364 00:27:30,680 --> 00:27:37,800 Speaker 1: good evening, Hello, gentlemen, I enjoy beer as fed. May 365 00:27:37,880 --> 00:27:43,240 Speaker 1: we see your papers? And that's a good place to 366 00:27:43,320 --> 00:27:56,360 Speaker 1: take a quick break stay with us. Virginia was sweating. 367 00:27:57,200 --> 00:28:01,600 Speaker 1: The Gestapo officer's hand was outstretched to her, beckoning for 368 00:28:01,640 --> 00:28:05,720 Speaker 1: their identification. She knew that hers would pass a smell test, 369 00:28:06,040 --> 00:28:09,359 Speaker 1: but she worried about the pilots. It was likely that 370 00:28:09,480 --> 00:28:12,320 Speaker 1: his was a rushed job, as the Brits needed men 371 00:28:12,320 --> 00:28:15,159 Speaker 1: in planes, and they didn't give much thought to the 372 00:28:15,200 --> 00:28:19,000 Speaker 1: likelihood of their survival if they were shot down. Their 373 00:28:19,040 --> 00:28:23,240 Speaker 1: thought process was understandable. Why make fake I das for 374 00:28:23,359 --> 00:28:31,159 Speaker 1: dead men? Uh, surely here you are m hmm, grigit 375 00:28:31,800 --> 00:28:39,600 Speaker 1: leucum American Huh on his he left them at home? 376 00:28:40,600 --> 00:28:45,880 Speaker 1: At home. Virginia had to think fast. Her lie was 377 00:28:45,920 --> 00:28:48,640 Speaker 1: the same one that everybody used, and it was clear 378 00:28:48,760 --> 00:28:53,200 Speaker 1: it wasn't playing with the Nazis. Uh. He's been forgetful 379 00:28:53,280 --> 00:28:55,640 Speaker 1: ever since he got back. He suffered an injury in 380 00:28:55,680 --> 00:28:58,080 Speaker 1: the States, and he hasn't been old there since. His 381 00:28:58,160 --> 00:29:02,480 Speaker 1: family is taking him to the doctor next week. An injury. 382 00:29:02,960 --> 00:29:07,640 Speaker 1: They couldn't take care of him overseas. It's not like 383 00:29:07,840 --> 00:29:12,800 Speaker 1: American doctors are busy. Then the answer came to Virginia. 384 00:29:13,280 --> 00:29:16,320 Speaker 1: She was sharp and quick, and these talents would prove 385 00:29:16,440 --> 00:29:21,280 Speaker 1: valuable in her career as a spy. That's exactly what 386 00:29:21,360 --> 00:29:25,840 Speaker 1: I am interviewing him about. Interviewing him you can see 387 00:29:25,840 --> 00:29:28,560 Speaker 1: in my paper some a reporter for the New York Post. 388 00:29:28,920 --> 00:29:33,240 Speaker 1: It's an American paper. I'm interviewing him to understand why 389 00:29:33,280 --> 00:29:36,440 Speaker 1: he would come back to France Fouquier instead of staying 390 00:29:36,480 --> 00:29:43,800 Speaker 1: over there. So tell me, I don't cost the Americans. 391 00:29:45,000 --> 00:29:51,000 Speaker 1: You don't trust them. The smartest things they've done in 392 00:29:51,080 --> 00:29:55,160 Speaker 1: Ages is stay out of this war. Let's the Germans 393 00:29:55,200 --> 00:30:00,920 Speaker 1: get a job done, get Europe back in shape. The 394 00:30:01,000 --> 00:30:04,480 Speaker 1: pilot's acting was good, but Virginia couldn't help but WinCE 395 00:30:04,600 --> 00:30:07,200 Speaker 1: at any ground given to the Nazis, even if it 396 00:30:07,240 --> 00:30:10,280 Speaker 1: was going to save their lives. Virginia was watching the 397 00:30:10,320 --> 00:30:15,200 Speaker 1: Germans closely. Their faces had relaxed. These were men of ego, 398 00:30:15,760 --> 00:30:18,840 Speaker 1: and seeing there as appropriately stroked meant they could drop 399 00:30:18,880 --> 00:30:24,560 Speaker 1: their guard I hope to read this interview soon. Hopefully 400 00:30:24,600 --> 00:30:27,880 Speaker 1: it will make its surrounds here. If it is apploading 401 00:30:28,000 --> 00:30:32,240 Speaker 1: our efforts here in Europe, I'll see that it does 402 00:30:33,400 --> 00:30:41,520 Speaker 1: hail Hitler. Before leaving, the Germans made a quick note 403 00:30:41,560 --> 00:30:45,680 Speaker 1: of their encounter. Brigitte Le contres. French was excellent, but 404 00:30:45,760 --> 00:30:49,880 Speaker 1: her accent was difficult to place. It seemed more Canadian 405 00:30:49,880 --> 00:30:53,320 Speaker 1: than American. They couldn't quite shake the idea that the 406 00:30:53,320 --> 00:30:56,680 Speaker 1: woman didn't totally fit the picture before them, but for 407 00:30:56,760 --> 00:31:00,280 Speaker 1: reasons we don't know, they decided not to interrogate her further. 408 00:31:01,600 --> 00:31:04,640 Speaker 1: The pilot must have sensed this hesitation as he asked 409 00:31:04,680 --> 00:31:08,280 Speaker 1: Virginia permission to leave the cafe, but she thought it 410 00:31:08,280 --> 00:31:11,200 Speaker 1: would signal they had something to hide, so they waited 411 00:31:11,240 --> 00:31:15,240 Speaker 1: another hour, eating bread and drinking water before heading out. 412 00:31:16,520 --> 00:31:19,960 Speaker 1: The next evening, Virginia forged travel papers for the pilot 413 00:31:20,360 --> 00:31:23,000 Speaker 1: and got him on a train out of France. She 414 00:31:23,040 --> 00:31:26,160 Speaker 1: had been given the necessary tools by Dr. Rous Say, 415 00:31:26,320 --> 00:31:28,840 Speaker 1: and as long as the pilot didn't draw any suspicion, 416 00:31:29,320 --> 00:31:32,160 Speaker 1: there was no real reason my border agents would look 417 00:31:32,200 --> 00:31:36,719 Speaker 1: too hard at his paperwork. As he set off, Virginia relaxed. 418 00:31:37,640 --> 00:31:41,080 Speaker 1: She successfully saved her first operative, and it was the 419 00:31:41,120 --> 00:31:44,440 Speaker 1: first of many. As the months rolled on to the 420 00:31:44,440 --> 00:31:50,320 Speaker 1: fall of Virginia, Spear headed numerous campaigns. His sabotaged Nazi machinery, 421 00:31:50,520 --> 00:31:54,280 Speaker 1: as well as giving fugitives and Allied spies scape routes 422 00:31:54,520 --> 00:31:58,880 Speaker 1: to Spain in Britain, including an infamous prison break at Mozac. 423 00:31:59,800 --> 00:32:03,680 Speaker 1: She deciphered and transmitted code via radio that helped the 424 00:32:03,760 --> 00:32:08,720 Speaker 1: resistance circumvent Nazi plots, and slowly she began making a 425 00:32:08,840 --> 00:32:12,320 Speaker 1: name for herself. It was a name bored on at 426 00:32:12,360 --> 00:32:14,640 Speaker 1: the fact that on that first night at the cafe 427 00:32:14,760 --> 00:32:19,480 Speaker 1: with the pilot, the Gestapo officers noticed something. As Virginia 428 00:32:19,480 --> 00:32:22,640 Speaker 1: and the pilot finally left the cafe, a small hobble 429 00:32:22,720 --> 00:32:30,840 Speaker 1: in her left leg gave them pause. She has a lymph. Yeah, 430 00:32:30,920 --> 00:32:37,440 Speaker 1: interesting indeed, and limp And so the legend of the 431 00:32:37,520 --> 00:32:42,080 Speaker 1: Limping Lady was born, and Virginia quickly disregarded her alias 432 00:32:42,360 --> 00:32:45,760 Speaker 1: as Brigitte le Contra. The Nazis had put that name 433 00:32:45,840 --> 00:32:48,920 Speaker 1: to her face and she couldn't do her job. She 434 00:32:49,000 --> 00:32:53,440 Speaker 1: was noticed in any way. After years of rejection, she 435 00:32:53,560 --> 00:32:56,120 Speaker 1: must have felt a sense of pride. She had been 436 00:32:56,200 --> 00:32:59,080 Speaker 1: hired as a spy and saved a man's life, and 437 00:32:59,160 --> 00:33:02,160 Speaker 1: she was good at it. But the waltz around her 438 00:33:02,160 --> 00:33:06,120 Speaker 1: were beginning to push in. The US, which had remained 439 00:33:06,160 --> 00:33:08,600 Speaker 1: neutral in the war up to this point, was making 440 00:33:08,640 --> 00:33:12,160 Speaker 1: broader shows of support for the Allies, and while that 441 00:33:12,200 --> 00:33:14,560 Speaker 1: may have been good for the war effort, it meant 442 00:33:14,600 --> 00:33:17,680 Speaker 1: that Virginia Hall would soon lose her open status as 443 00:33:17,680 --> 00:33:22,280 Speaker 1: an American working in France. After that first close encounter 444 00:33:22,320 --> 00:33:25,160 Speaker 1: with the Nazis, Virginia moved out of her first home 445 00:33:25,400 --> 00:33:29,000 Speaker 1: and into another and continued her undercover work for the 446 00:33:29,200 --> 00:33:34,320 Speaker 1: s Oe and Leone, not yet realizing the priest Robert 447 00:33:34,320 --> 00:33:41,680 Speaker 1: Alesh was on her trail coming up on the next 448 00:33:41,720 --> 00:33:48,040 Speaker 1: episode of Good Assassins. The people of Europe who are 449 00:33:48,080 --> 00:33:52,560 Speaker 1: defending themselves do not ask us. They don't laugh fighting 450 00:33:53,280 --> 00:33:57,320 Speaker 1: A message for Captain Bobby and I believe I have 451 00:33:57,480 --> 00:34:02,320 Speaker 1: found the nest of the limping Lady. Confirm her location, 452 00:34:02,440 --> 00:34:06,240 Speaker 1: and then return to us. I've seen many terrible sites 453 00:34:06,280 --> 00:34:09,840 Speaker 1: in the last five years, but nothing, nothing approaching the 454 00:34:09,920 --> 00:34:14,319 Speaker 1: dreadful interior of this hot at Belson. The dead and 455 00:34:14,440 --> 00:34:29,440 Speaker 1: the dye lay close together. 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