Widow Spy: My CIA Journey from the Jungles of Laos to Prison (04/27/22)
Join us on Wednesday, April 27 at 4 PM for a talk by Martha D. Peterson, author of Widow Spy: My CIA Journey from the Jungles of Laos to Prison.
It was 1975 when Martha Peterson’s plane landed in Moscow and launched her assignment as an American case officer for the CIA inside Russia. After training at CIA headquarters in Virginia, she would be one of the first women in U.S. history to embark on such a mission. Less than two years after her arrival on a cold November day in Moscow, she would be ambushed at a drop site, arrested, and hauled in for questioning by KGB agents.
In The Widow Spy, Peterson recounts her journey from being the wife of a paramilitary officer in Laos to taking on her own special operations in Russia.
Moderated by Igor Lukes, Professor of History and International Relations.
