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Author: Claudia Friddell (Calkins Creek, 2025), 156 pages.

Reviewed by Hayden Peake, who has been contributing reviews to Studies for more than two decades.

The Mysterious Virginia Hall: World War II's Most Dangerous Spy

Searching CIA’s public website for “Virginia Hall" results in a series of pages and pictures that summarize the story of the agency’s first female operations officer. In The Mysterious Virginia Hall, author Claudia Friddell, with the help of family recollections, artifacts, and archival documents, adds details about her early life and intelligence career.

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