Category Archives: Espionage

In September 2006, Rachel, an Agency support officer, died in a traffic accident while on temporary duty overseas.

As the US entered World War II, Cordelia joined the war effort after seeing the horror of the Nazis first hand. She accepted a job with US Military intelligence, translating and analyzing air order of battle at the Pentagon. When she requested a transfer overseas she was turned down, so she resigned and joined the OSS.

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.