by Craig Gralley | Mar 30, 2018 | Virginia Hall
Covering Her Tracks Virginia, recruited by British Intelligence to be its “eyes and ears” in Vichy France, needed a cover story to keep the French Secret Police and Gestapo from prying into her clandestine life. Early in 1941 she contacted a family friend...
by Craig Gralley | Mar 8, 2018 | Virginia Hall
Virginia’s Escape from Paris . . . After resigning from the US State Department in May 1939, Virginia stayed in Europe. Perhaps looking for new meaning in her life, she took a position with the French Ambulance Service and when the Nazis invaded France in May...
by Craig Gralley | Feb 26, 2018 | Virginia Hall
My Search for Virginia Hall . . . first began in the archives of my former employer, the CIA. Virginia: The Pirate Chief My first thought: Were there clues in Virginia’s childhood that predicted her success as a spy? The Roland Park School yearbook showed young...
by Craig Gralley | Feb 14, 2018 | Virginia Hall
Growing up, Virginia Hall led a charmed life. She spent summers in Europe and on the family’s 110-acre Box Horn farm on the outskirts of Baltimore. She went to the exclusive Roland Park Country School for Girls, then Radcliffe and Barnard. After graduating...
by Craig Gralley | Feb 4, 2018 | Virginia Hall
Virginia Hall: Arming and Directing the French Resistance On the eve of the D-Day invasion, Virginia Hall was organizing airdrops of arms to newly organized resistance movements in the Haute Loire region of France. Her mission was to aid and direct the Resistance to...
by Craig Gralley | Feb 4, 2018 | Virginia Hall
Early Life To escape the summer heat of Baltimore, Virginia’s parents, Ned and Barbara, purchased a home on 110 acres in Parkton, Maryland. Box Horn Farm had electricity and water but no central heat. After Ned’s tragic death in 1930, the family moved to...
