
Female spies who forged the CIA
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Mary Hutchettson
Mary hutchettson had a PhD in archaeology she was fluent in multiple languages she served in world war two as an intelligence officer but when she applied to the CIA she was first only offered the position of a secretary. She became associated with a man named erati and together the two of them decided to create the first alliance between the americans and the Ukrainians. There are many failures during this time things certainly do not go well but eventually there are successes as well and marry it begins having the string of double agents in soviets ukraine. Through them she is able to get the plans for a biological weapons facility as well as some other weapons facilities in the region that end
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