Virginia Hall receives the Distinguished Service Cross from General Donovan, head of the OSS. Virginia Hall was known by many names during her career. Working as a spy for Britain's Special, Soon, Vera Atkins recruited her and she was sent to Lyon under the guise of being a journalist for the New York Post. Hall was the first female SOE agent to be sent to France. Hall had done it. Ancient Syria. Today's Syria, a country located in the Middle East on the Mediterranean Sea, is one of the oldest inhabited regions on the planet. Oldest human remains discovered. ~ The statue commemorating Gabrielle Petit, the young Belgian who spied on the German army during World War I and was executed, stands on Place Saint-Jean in the heart of downtown Brussels. Petit is shown raising his chin in a final provocative fight. “I have just been sentenced to death, I will be shot tomorrow. American Spy by Lauren Wilkinson. Easily one of my favorites, this is the story of Marie, a young black woman working as an FBI agent in the 90s. When she is approached by the CIA to spy on the president of Burkina Faso, she is skeptical , but her FBI career is going nowhere fast, and she might be able to. Lydia Dean Pilcher's "A Call to Spy" follows three such women, and while the form of the World War II drama seems familiar enough, using it to tell the story of intrepid female spies delivers.