Betty McIntosh
During WWII, she was one of the few women hired into the OSS Morale Operations (MO) branch, charged with creating rumors that our foreign adversaries would believe. In other words, so-called “black propaganda.”
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Betty Lussier
OSS intelligence agent during World War II
Barbara Lauwers
Corporal in the Women’s Army Corps (WAC) during WWII and Bronze Star recipient whose work led to the defection of 600 soldiers from behind Italian lines.
Marlisa L Smith
US National Security Agency Chief of Staff
Jacqueline K Van Landingham
She was one of the first African Americans at the CIA to lose her life in service to her country.
Ann Bates
Loyalist spy in the American Revolutionary War
Barbara A Robbins
Barbara A. Robbins joined the CIA, but just two years later – in March 1965 – she was killed when terrorists bombed the U.S. Embassy in South Vietnam. She was the first female CIA officer to die in the line of duty and she remains the youngest ever, at just 21-years old.
Erica O’Donnell
Irish art historian and WWII espionage officer
Virginia Jenkins Riley
In the early 1960s, Riley was one of the designers and programmers of a general program written for the UNIVAC 490, the first computer designed specifically for real-time applications at NSA. In the late 1960s, she moved to the Cryptanalysis Department at the National Cryptologic School, where she developed a new course in Cryptanalytic Diagnostics.
Dr Sarah Botsai
Dr. Botsai spent twelve years in Operations before she was selected for a tour as the NSA representative in the White House Situation Room, the first NSA woman to hold this position. After her two-year tour she was asked to return as the Deputy Director of the White House Situation Room. She also attended the National War College, the first NSA woman to do so, graduating in 1977.