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Stephanie Rader, Heroic U.S. Spy at Dawn of Cold War, Dies at Age 100

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A woman who risked capture for reporting on Soviet designs inside Poland after World War II was recommended for the Legion of Merit but denied. Now she may finally be honored.

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Stephanie Rader, a 100-year-old woman who worked as an undercover spy in Poland at the end of World War II, may still get the Legion of Merit that eluded her for nearly 70 years—but it will be a posthumous honor.

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