Leslianne Shedd—a young, courageous, highly successful CIA operations officer serving in East Africa—was a passenger on an Ethiopian Airlines flight when it was hijacked and then crashed into the Indian Ocean in 1996, killing 125 people, including Leslianne.
Served in the US Civil War disguised as a man
With a degree in mathematics and a Navy correspondence course on cryptology Wilma Davis was hired to work in the Army’s Signal Intelligence Service in the late 1930s.
American WWII intelligence officer
American anthropologist and the second female officer to join the US Marine Corps, commissioned with the rank of Captain in 1943.
In 1944, she became the first American woman in uniform to be captured in Germany during an unauthorized visit to the front near Luxembourg.
Corporal in the Women’s Army Corps (WAC) during WWII and Bronze Star recipient whose work led to the defection of 600 soldiers from behind Italian lines.
During WWII, she was one of the few women hired into the OSS Morale Operations (MO) branch, charged with creating rumors that our foreign adversaries would believe. In other words, so-called “black propaganda.”
OSS intelligence agent during World War II
US National Security Agency Chief of Staff