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

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Cuthbert, Virginia's Life Story

Virginia Hall was forced to flee France over the Pyrenees Mountains into neutral Spain. She had lost her left leg in a hunting accident while on holiday in Turkey. An obscure law prevented amputees from becoming fully fledged diplomats. When war broke out, she decided to contact London and have Cuthbert eliminated.

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