In celebration of #WomensEqualityDay, the story of Jeanne Vertefeuille: The Spy Catcher
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1954: Jeanne joined CIA as a typist & as opportunities for females slowly began to grow, she earned jobs @ posts overseas
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After learning Russian & finding her niche in counterintelligence Jeanne was asked to lead a 5-person investigative team.
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Alarming # of our USSR assets disappeared or were executed in rapid succession. Jeanne’s team was formed to find out why.
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The task was long & exhaustive, complicated by fact that many didn’t think cause was a traitor, but intercepted communications instead.
1992: Jeanne’s colleague, Sandy Grimes, found Ames made large bank-account deposits after every meeting w Soviet official
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1992: Jeanne reached mandatory retirement age, but immediately returned as contractor to see investigation to completion.
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@FBI took over investigation & used surveillance to build case.
21 Feb 1994: Ames was arrested.
He pleaded guilty & is serving life sentence
For 58 years, starting when CIA was overwhelmingly male & until her death in 2012, Jeanne blazed trails for all CIA women
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Jeanne was a driven, focused officer who demanded excellence & was always devoted to mission. #WomensEqualityDay
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I thought it was
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.@CIA If only someone had assigned her to that sexy couple that runs the fake travel agency... #TheAmericans
I saw a mini series about this on Netflix a couple years ago. It was very good.http://www.imdb.com/title/tt3074646/ …
Looks like we had the wrong 3 letters looking at HRC email and server
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