In celebration of #WomensEqualityDay, the story of Jeanne Vertefeuille: The Spy Catcher
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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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Section 40 Billary!
no big deal, just learned one of the harder languages in the world to master...
listen we all know she fucks some guy in the end...DAT CHANGE....what the real CIA is talking about oh and TESTIFIED to haha
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