"We're finally putting him somewhere he belongs, " said Marc Joyeuse, the veteran's oldest of two sons.
Other military members and intelligence operatives wrote letters in support of Joyeuse, including Adm.
After the war, Joyeuse served with the French army in Indochina as a medic.
Two weeks after Joyeuse's death, O'Donnell emailed Petraeus, describing the family's quest and the veteran's wartime heroics.
Joyeuse became an expert in emergency treatment of trauma patients, as well as a surgeon and college professor.
"It's the one thing that he wanted, " Remi Joyeuse, of Knoxville, Tenn.
They contacted Patrick K. O'Donnell, a military historian who had interviewed Joyeuse a decade earlier for a book on World War II espionage.
Joyeuse was raised in France and left after the war started.
According to military records, Joyeuse worked for the OSS but was officially a member of the Free French Forces, enlisting after France's surrender to Germany in 1940.
Initially rejected because of he didn't meet the cemetery's eligibility criteria, Joyeuse's burial at Arlington will take place March 29, one of his two sons said Monday.
On Nov. 9, a letter from the executive director of the Army National Military Cemeteries to Suzanne Joyeuse notified her that the family's request for burial at Arlington had been approved.
Joyeuse, a retired physician, was 92 when he died last June in Saranac Lake in the Adirondacks, where he lived and worked, after battling Alzheimer's disease for more than a decade.
While it might seem unusual for a CIA director to take interest in a veteran's burial dispute, in Joyeuse's case, Petraeus was paying homage to a fellow soldier-spy, said O'Donnell, whose latest book, "Dog Company, " tells the story of U.S. Army Rangers in World War II.
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