This month we will talk about \;The Sisterhood: the secret his tory of women at the CIA \;by Liza Mundy.
\n"The New Yo rk Times bestselling author of Code Girls reveals the untold story of how women at the CIA ushered in the modern intelligence age\, a sweeping story of a "sisterhood" of women spies spanning three generations who broke the glass ceiling\, helped transform spycraft\, and tracked down Osama Bin La den. Upon its creation in 1947\, the Central Intelligence \;Agency ins tantly became one of the most important spy services in the world. Like ev ery male-dominated workplace in Eisenhower America\, the growing intellige nce agency needed women to type memos\, send messages\, manipulate expense accounts\, and keep secrets. Despite discrimination--even because of it-- these clerks and secretaries rose to become some of the shrewdest\, toughe st operatives the agency employed. Because women were seen as unimportant\ , they moved unnoticed on the streets of Bonn\, Geneva\, and Moscow\, stea ling secrets under the noses of the KGB. Back at headquarters\, they built the CIA's critical archives--first by hand\, then by computer. These wome n also battled institutional stereotyping and beat it. Men argued they alo ne could run spy rings. But the women proved they could be spymasters\, to o. During the Cold War\, women made critical contributions to U.S. intelli gence\, sometimes as officers\, sometimes as unpaid spouses\, working toge ther as their numbers grew. The women also made unique sacrifices\, giving up marriage\, children\, even their own lives. They noticed things that t he men at the top didn't see. In the final years of the twentieth century\ , it was a close-knit network of female CIA analysts who warned about the rising threat of Al Qaeda. After the 9/11 attacks\, women rushed to join t he fight as a new job\, "targeter\," came to prominence. They showed that painstaking data analysis would be crucial to the post-9/11 national secur ity landscape--an effort that culminated spectacularly in the CIA's succes sful efforts to track down Osama Bin Laden and\, later\, Ayman al-Zawahiri . With the same meticulous reporting and storytelling verve that she broug ht to her New York Times bestseller Code Girls\, Liza Mundy has written an indispensable and sweeping history that reveals how women at the CIA ushe red in the modern intelligence age."
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