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The Wolves at the Door: The True Story of America’s Greatest Female Spy 

 British historian M. R. D. Foot called her an “indomitable agent with a ‘brass foot.’”[1] Special Operations Executive (SOE) officer Philippe de Vomécourt wrote that he served in France with this “extraordinary woman . . . with a wooden leg.”[2] French author Marcel Ruby said that she lost her leg in a riding accident.[3] Others had her losing a limb after falling under a tram.[4] Former CIA officer Harry Mahoney describes an OSS mission in which she parachuted behind enemy lines with her “wooden leg in her knapsack.”[5] Author and former OSS officer Elizabeth McIntosh wrote that she landed in France by boat.[6] The Gestapo put her likeness on a wanted poster. The British made her a Member of the British Empire. The United States awarded her the Distinguished Service Cross “for extraordinary heroism in connection with military operations against the enemy,” the only women to receive that medal for World War II service.[7]

The numbers may be distracting, but they are to the footnotes from the story at the link. Interesting story and one that we may have never heard all the details of if some documents about her hadn't been declassified in the eighties. Those were the days when spies were mysterious, almost other worldly shadows, or at least we think of them that way due to old movies from the forties and fifties.

 A review of Robert Altman's soon to be released movie  A Prairie Home Companion

Is it human nature to be caught red handed using the public trust to rake in huge amounts of cash and then puff oneself up in self-righteous denial. It is getting to be like a recording that you can play over and over again where only the names change, Hastert Defends Profits by Claiming $207 Million Parkway Provides No Benefits for Nearby Homeowners