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mostly without the assistance of other OSS agents , she supplied arms , training , and direction to French re- sistance groups , called Maquisards , especially in Haute-Loire where the Maquis cleared the department of German soldiers prior to the arrival of the American army in Septem- ber 1944 . After World War II Hall worked for
the Special Activities Division of the Central Intelligence Agency ( CIA ). Virginia Hall was the ONLY American woman awarded the Distinguished Service Cross in World War II or since then .
In November 2013 , a bill was in- troduced to Congress to award the Congressional Gold Medal , collechttps :// www . youtube . com / watch ? v = t8qpwDUDz-c
( CIA ’ s history is filled with extraordinary tales of derring-do , some of which seem more like- ly to come from a Hollywood studio than from a government agency . In this video , we talk about one such officer who led a life that was anything but ordinary . Courtesy of the Central Intelligence Agency and YouTube .)
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