Blowing My Cover: My Life as a CIA Spy and Other Misadventures by Lindsay Moran

This book describes the life of a CIA spy and it is not what you would think it would be. Lindsay describes it a lonely, soul-breaking job. In reading the book, it seems as if she is disillusioned with her job almost immediately. She describes often that she thought it would be like in the movies, scaling walls or ziplining from building to building. In reality, she spent most of her time in her car, driving around making sure she was not being followed and trying to recruit "assets." As a case officer, she was considered the upper echelon of the CIA, although she describes almost every aspect of the "company" as sexist and chauvinistic. After 9/11, she became further disillusioned, feeling that the company had let the United States down. Not surprisingly, she left the CIA, although that was not an easy process either.


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