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- A cohort of courageous women worked as spies and operatives in intelligence agencies around the world, risking their lives to seek out covert information that influenced the war’s outcome.
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8 hours ago · Her Secret Service: The Forgotten Women of British Intelligence by Claire Hubbard-Hall Weidenfeld & Nicolson £25, 352 pages In True Face: A Woman’s Life in the CIA, Unmasked by Jonna Mendez ...
- The First Wave of Female Spies
- Mad Men and Female Stereotypes
- The Persistent Glass Ceiling
In the beginning, espionage officials had to confront the question: Could women be good spies? Not everyone agreed. When interviewed by American officials, one European intelligence officer said: “An agent should be calm, unostentatious and reticent. Women are emotional, vain, loquacious. They fall in love easily and without discrimination. They ar...
Ironically, as the women’s movement gained broad strength in the ’60s, a Mad Men-style culture took hold at the CIA, according to agency documents. Women complained that they had to work harder to get the same promotions, and that they could not get jobs as case officers. One document from the 1970s confronted the issue head on: “The women’s libera...
By the time the curtain opened on the 1980s, all the gender politics of the 1960s and ’70s had crystalized into a new feminism—but not yet at the CIA. In 1983, Deputy Director John N. McMahon wrote a memo called “CIA Women.” He had examined statistics on gender employment at the agency. “After being appalled by them,” he wrote, “I am embarrassed.” ...
Oct 2, 2020 · The role of women as spies during World War II. Intelligence agencies realized fairly early on the important part women could play in wartime spying, in what had been traditionally...
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- Suyin Haynes
Trained alongside their male colleagues in fitness, wireless transmitting, sabotage, and the use of small arms and explosives, among other specialist skills, the women were soon directly engaged in collecting and smuggling military intelligence, arms and other supplies, running escape lines, sabotaging enemy transport and communications and ...
Feb 10, 2023 · The book covers the women’s battles for recognition over several decades, from their early intelligence exploits in the second world war to life in the agency, founded 1947, through hostilities...
- Helen Warrell
Of the many women who served in the OSS, field agent Virginia Hall was one of the most distinguished. Undaunted by her artificial leg, she created a spy network and helped organize and arm French commandos behind enemy lines.
May 12, 2019 · Intelligence officers had long presumed that women’s special assets for spying were limited to strategically deployed female abilities: batting eyelashes, soliciting pillow talk, and of course...
