
Edition 699 - Nathalia Holt
The Unexplained With Howard Hughes
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The Life and Times of Mary Hutchinson
Mary Hutchinson had a PhD in archaeology and spoke fluently for languages. She served in World War II as an intelligence officer, but when she applied to the CIA after the war, she was only offered the position of secretary. And over the years, what we see is that she forms this web of double agents who are they're called playback, operatives. They go in as double agents working for Soviet intelligence, but have been turned to work for the Americans.
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