| Notes |
Upon leaving college, she traveled to Massachusetts to work as a contractor for the U.S. Army’s 10th Special Forces Group, which was then based there, working in the library and foreign language lab.
There, she ran into a young officer named Michael Vickers, who would eventually become the undersecretary of Defense for intelligence, and he encouraged her to apply to the CIA, according to an agency biography.
When she heard that women could work there and even go into clandestine services overseas, she applied and was accepted, according to the agency. |