LEADER 00000cam 2200000Ka 4500 001 ocn781289031 003 OCoLC 005 20130415170350.0 008 120322t20122012ncub 001 0ceng d 020 9780983878124 020 0983878129 020 |z9780983878155 (ebk.) 020 |z0983878153 (ebk.) 035 (OCoLC)781289031 035 (OCoLC)781289031 035 (OCoLC)781289031 040 HQD|beng|cHQD|dHQD|dDAD|dGJL 049 GJLA 100 1 Peterson, Martha Denny. 245 14 The widow spy :|bmy CIA journey from the jungles of Laos to prison in Moscow /|cMartha D. Peterson. 264 1 Wilmington, N.C. :|bRed Canary Press,|c[2012] 264 4 |c©2012 300 253 pages :|billustrations ;|c25 cm 336 text|btxt|2rdacontent 337 unmediated|bn|2rdamedia 338 volume|bnc|2rdacarrier 500 Includes index. 520 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. 610 10 United States.|bCentral Intelligence Agency|vBiography. 650 0 Intelligence officers|zUnited States|vBiography. 650 0 Spies|zUnited States|vBiography. 650 0 Vietnam War, 1961-1975|xCampaigns|zLaos. 651 0 United States|xForeign relations|zSoviet Union. 994 02|bGJL
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