The sisterhood : the secret history of women at the CIA / Liza Mundy.
"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 Bi...
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| Language: | English |
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New York :
Crown,
[2023]
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| Edition: | First edition. |
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| Physical Description: | xxii, 452 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color) ; 25 cm |
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Secret history of women at the CIA
Secret history of women at the Central Intelligence Agency |
| Format: | Book |
Contents:
- Prologue: The promise
- Part one: The assessment of men. Station W
- Get the food, Mary
- The clerk
- The diplomat's daughter
- Flaps and seals
- You had to wear a skirt
- Housewife cover
- The heist
- Incident management
- The vault women revolt
- Miss Marple of Russia house
- What are you going to do with the boat?
- Part two: Ladies doing analysis. The fiercely argued things
- Finding X
- You don't belong here
- A bright and attractive redhead
- Stress and a gray room
- The nicked earlobe
- "I've got a target on my back"
- September 11, 2001
- Part three: Getting their guys. The threat matrix
- The new girls
- Putting warheads on foreheads
- Espionage is espionage
- I made bad people have bad days
- Anything to fit in
- Laundry on the line
- Epilogue.