Virginia Hall

@Spy, Timeline and Childhood ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ Virginia Hall Goillot was an American spy and most wanted by the ‘Geheime Staatspolizei’ (Gestapo), the official secret police of Nazis American Miscellaneous Spies Aries Celebrities Virginia Hall Goillot was an American spy and most wanted by the ‘Geheime Staatspolizei’ (Gestapo), the official secret police of Nazis. Her espionage started at the time of World War II with the British ‘Special Operations Executive’ following amputation of a portion of her left leg that deterred her from pursuing a career in the Foreign Service. Later she joined the ‘Special Operations Branch’ of the United States ‘Office of Strategic Services’. Post war she worked as an intelligence analyst on French parliamentary affairs in the ‘Special Activities Division’ of the ‘Central Intelligence Agency’ (CIA) of America. She adopted several nicknames during her espionage including "Nicolas", "Marie of Lyon", "Marie Monin", "Camille", "Diane" and "Germaine". She was called ‘Artemis’ and "lady with the limp" by the Germans. She was an honorary ‘Member of the Order of the British Empire’. On September 27, 1945, she received the ‘Distinguished Service Cross’ award from General William Joseph Donovan as the only civilian woman for her efforts in France at the time of World War II. Posthumously she was honoured by the British and French embassies in 2006. ‘The Wolves at the Door: The True Story of America's Greatest Female Spy’ by Judith L. Pearson and ‘L'Espionne. Virginia Hall, une Américaine dans la guerre’ by Vincent Nouzille narrate the adventurous life of Virginia Hall.

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Birthday: April 6, 1906 Died on: July 8, 1982 Nationality: American Famous: Spy, Miscellaneous, Spies Spouses: Paul Gaston Goillot Universities: Roland Park Country School Radcliffe College Birth Place: Baltimore, Maryland, U.S. Information Detail Birthday April 6, 1906 Died on July 8, 1982 Nationality American Famous Spy, Miscellaneous, Spies Spouses Paul Gaston Goillot Universities Roland Park Country School Radcliffe College Birth Place Baltimore, Maryland, U.S. Gender Female Sun Sign Aries Born in Baltimore, Maryland, U.S. Famous as American Spy Died at Age 76

Baltimore, Maryland, U.S.

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She married Paul Goillot, an agent of the ‘Office of Strategic Services’ in 1950. Unsplash Personal Life

On July 8, 1982 she died at the ‘Shady Grove Adventist Hospital’ in Rockville, Maryland and was interred in Pikesville, Maryland at the ‘Druid Ridge Cemetery’. Unsplash Personal Life

She was born on April 6, 1906, in a well-to-do family of Edwin Hall in Baltimore, United States. Her father was the owner of a cinema in Baltimore. Unsplash Childhood & Early Life

She studied in the ‘Roland Park Country School’ and thereafter attended the renowned ‘Radcliffe College’, an only women liberal arts college in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Unsplash Childhood & Early Life

She also attended the prestigious ‘Barnard College’, a private women's liberal arts college in New York. Unsplash Childhood & Early Life

Virginia Hall moved across Europe with the support of her parents and studied in Germany, Austria and France. She was an enthusiast of modern languages and learned German, French and Italian. Unsplash Childhood & Early Life

In 1931 she joined the American Embassy as a Consular Service clerk in Warsaw, Poland. She aimed to work at the US State Department to pursue a career in Foreign Service. Unsplash Childhood & Early Life

At the outbreak of the Second World War, while she was staying in Paris, she joined the ‘Ambulance Service Unit’ of France. Unsplash Career

In May 1940 when the Nazis invaded France, she managed to escape to England. Unsplash Career

In 1941 she was inducted as a special agent by the British ‘Special Operations Executive’ (SOE). Faking as a ‘New York Post’ reporter, using her codename “Mary”, she went back to France in August that year. She aided in establishing a defiance network in Vichy for the next fifteen months. Unsplash Career

After moving to Lyons in early 1942 she worked intently. During the end of the year around November 1942 the Germans captured France abruptly and as their suspicion against her grew, she escaped to Spain. Thereafter she worked for the British ‘Special Operations Executive’ (SOE) in Madrid for a while. Unsplash Career

In July 1943 after she returned to London, she was conferred honorary ‘Member of the Order of the British Empire’ (MBE). Unsplash Career

Information	Detail
Birthday	April 6, 1906
Died on	July 8, 1982
Nationality	American
Famous	Spy, Miscellaneous, Spies
Spouses	Paul Gaston Goillot
Universities	Roland Park Country School Radcliffe College
Birth Place	Baltimore, Maryland, U.S.
Gender	Female
Sun Sign	Aries
Born in	Baltimore, Maryland, U.S.
Famous as	American Spy
Died at Age	76

Virginia Hall

American

Apr 6, 1906

Biography

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Baltimore, Maryland, U.S.