The Central Intelligence Agency is the nation's clearinghouse for foreign intelligence. The seeds for its current, coordinated mission were planted during World War II, and a Baltimore woman played an important role in its development.
Hall ran an agent network in Lyon, France, during World War II to build up the French resistance. The fact that she knew every Allied agent who passed through made her a target of the Nazis, so much so that local Gestapo Chief Klaus Barbie, known as "The Butcher of Lyon," tried to hunt her down, complete with wanted posters.
Hall was born in Baltimore in 1906. She grew up in the city and her family had a summer home at a farm in Parkton.
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