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Author Peterson, Martha Denny.

Title The widow spy : my CIA journey from the jungles of Laos to prison in Moscow / Martha D. Peterson.

Publication Info. Wilmington, N.C. : Red Canary Press, [2012]
©2012

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 Avon Free Public Library - Adult Department  327.1273 PETERSON c.2  Check Shelf
Description 253 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
Note Includes index.
Summary Marti Peterson spent her thirty-year career in the Central Intelligence Agency as an operations officer, earning both the prestigious Donovan Award and the George W. Bush Award for Excellence in Counterterrorism. She began professional service on the CIA's front line in Moscow, USSR, during the Cold War. Her contribution to her country originated in Pakse, Laos, during the Vietnam War, where she accompanied her husband , John, a CIA Paramilitary officer. After he was killed in a helicopter crash in 1972, Marti returned to the U.S. and entered the CIA. The story told here appears in many books about spying acitivies in the Cold War, but in the Widow Spy, she tells it as she experienced it.
Subject United States. Central Intelligence Agency -- Biography.
Intelligence officers -- United States -- Biography.
Spies -- United States -- Biography.
United States -- Foreign relations -- Soviet Union.
Vietnam War, 1961-1975 -- Campaigns -- Laos.
ISBN 9780983878124
0983878129
9780983878155 (ebk.)
0983878153 (ebk.)
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