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Intelligence officers Intelligence officers United States Biography Large type books Spies United States United States. Central Intelligence Agency Officials and employees Biography United States. Central Intelligence Agency. Women intelligence officers Women intelligence officers United States Biography Women spiesHolt, Nathalia
Summary: "From the New York Times bestselling author of Rise of the Rocket Girls comes the never-before-told story of a small cadre of influential female spies in the precarious early days of the CIA--women who helped create the template for cutting-edge espionage (and blazed new paths for equality in the workplace) in the treacherous post-WWII era"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: G. P. Putnam's Sons 2022
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 327.1273 HOLWallach, Janet
Summary: "The true story of socialite spy Marguerite Harrison, who slipped behind enemy lines in Russia and Germany in the fraught period between the world wars Foreign correspondent. Author. Filmmaker. Spy. Marguerite Harrison was born into Gilded Age American privilege and launched a successful career as a culture writer for the Baltimore Sun as a young widow. But when America entered World War I,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Doubleday 2023
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 HARRISON, MARGUERITE WALWillner, Nina
Summary: "In this illuminating and deeply moving memoir, a former American military intelligence officer goes beyond traditional Cold War espionage tales to tell the true story of her family--of five women separated by the Iron Curtain for more than forty years, and their miraculous reunion after the fall of the Berlin Wall. Forty Autumns makes visceral the pain and longing of one family forced to live...
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Publisher / Publication Date: William Morrow 2016
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 920 WILCopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Adult, Call number: B WILLNERFox, Amaryllis
Summary: "Amaryllis Fox's riveting memoir tells the story of her ten years in the most elite clandestine ops unit of the CIA, hunting the world's most dangerous terrorists in sixteen countries while marrying and giving birth to a daughter"--Provided by publisher.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House Large Print 2019
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP 921 FOX, AMARYLLIS FOXMundy, Liza
Summary: "The New York Times bestselling author of Code Girls reveals the untold story of how women at the CIA ushered in the modern intelligence age, a sweeping story of a "sisterhood" of women spies spanning three generations who broke the glass ceiling, helped transform spycraft, and tracked down Osama Bin Laden. Upon its creation in 1947, the Central Intelligence Agency instantly became one of the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Crown 2023
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1 available in Adult, Call number: 327.1273 MUNFox, Amaryllis
Summary: "Amaryllis Fox's riveting memoir tells the story of her ten years in the most elite clandestine ops unit of the CIA, hunting the world's most dangerous terrorists in sixteen countries while marrying and giving birth to a daughter"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Alfred A. Knopf 2019
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 FOX, AMARYLLIS FOXCopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Adult, Call number: B FOX FOXWilson, Valerie Plame.
Summary: Valerie Plame Wilson, wife of Ambassador Joesph Wilson, discusses how the revelation to the American public that she was a spy impacted her personal and professional life and addresses questions about her training, experiences, covert status, responsibilities, and personal life.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster 2007
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 327.12092 WILSummary: A suspense-filled glimpse into the dark corridors of political power, a riveting action-thriller based on the autobiography of real-life undercover CIA operative Valerie Plame, whose career was destroyed and marriage strained to its limits when her covert identity was exposed.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Summit Entertainment 2011
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1 available in Thriller DVDs, Call number: DVD THRILLER FAIPurnell, Sonia
Summary: "This is a historical nonfiction book about Virginia Hall, an American spy in France who the Nazis dubbed "the most dangerous of allied spies." It tells the story of her youth and her work in Europe during the second world war."--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Viking 2022