Category Archives: Espionage

OSS officer during WWII

Elizabeth Sudmeier was a pioneer in breaking down gender barriers at the CIA.

The first CIA officer to die while employed by the Agency.

Maria Gulovich, a young Slovakian schoolteacher, was only 23 when she began harboring Jews from the Nazis. She joined the underground resistance and began working for the Office of Strategic Services (OSS) as a guide and interpreter.

Leslianne Shedd—a young, courageous, highly successful CIA operations officer serving in East Africa—was a passenger on an Ethiopian Airlines flight when it was hijacked and then crashed into the Indian Ocean in 1996, killing 125 people, including Leslianne.

American WWII intelligence officer