
Isdal Woman (Cold War Mystery)
Jimmy Akin's Mysterious World
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Wastal Woman a Spy?
In the sixties and seventies, the cold war was o mole on its lronges. The soviets were nosing around the norwegian fiords with their submarines. Most spies don't bounce rapidly from place to place over the course of a year. She may have been an inexperienced agent working as a courier who called too much attention to herself. In fact, that might be why she ended up dead. There's a long history of spies being bunglers who completely botched their assignments.
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In 1970, a woman's body was found in a remote valley in Norway. Jimmy Akin and Dom Bettinelli delve into the international investigation that was touched off and the mystery that remains to this day as to the Isdal Woman's identity and how she died.
