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SPY WORE RED: My Adventures as an Undercover Agent in World War II
with violent activities created to introduce her as a virtual Jane Bond of espionage when, in fact, she was a civil service clerk, grade 5 employed by the Office of Strategic Services (OSS), predecessor of today s Central Intelligence Agency (CIA). These violent activities assassinations, murders, wild car chases and the like, would have drawn the ire of Spain s dictator, Francisco Franco. Agents from both sides of the European conflict were allowed in neutral Spain provided they operated under conditions laid down by Franco:
NO VIOLENCE. One gunshot signaled a counter-revolution, a fear of all dictators.