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The Limping Lady | WW2 | Spy Sisters

True Spies: Espionage | Investigation | Crime | Murder | Detective | Politics

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The End of the Beginning

My address had been given to Vichy. Not my name, but it wouldn't be hard to guess. I wanted to go back as soon as possible if the SOE could just change my appearance a bit. Ordinarily, it would take six weeks to get back out. Instead, she was redeployed to Spain in 1943. It was too far from the action for her liking. While there, she'd reconnected with some agents from her days in Lyon who had also managed to flee across the Pyrenees. The idea of getting the team back together was an appealing one. She made her case to the head of the Special Operations Executive.

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