you would look at me and see a nice lady, probably very happy person, very outgoing. an older woman, who has a retired life and goes to church. but my life was not normal. it was a lie. everyone thought that i was just a mom. they never knew what i was actually doing because i lied to everyone about who i was. for almost 32 years. but i didn t do it for the thrill of it. i did it because i had to do it. october 1972, i became a widow. after that, i needed to work. i thought about it and i had spoken foreign languages. i had lived overseas and i had a masters degree. so, i decided to apply for cia. it wasn t that easy, though. they wanted to make me into a secretary. but i said, no, i really wanted to be a case officer. i really wanted to do covert operations. and eventually, i became a cia officers during the cold war. people today don t realize how serious the cold-war threat really was. i don t think it is an exaggeration that our survival was at stake. they were anti
Israeli army has asked residents of seven different areas across the gaza strip to leave their homes and move to the city centres or take refuge in shelters in preparation for Launching Attacks against hamas targets. Witnesses told the bbc dozens of families have started leaving their homes and they were sheltering in unschools. Un were sheltering in unschools. Un schools. This all comes as israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu declared on saturday that israel is, quote, at war, and is promising revenge. This comes after a surprise and unprecedented attack by Palestinian Militants on israeli territory early saturday morning. Israels government says hamas launched more than 2,000 rockets into the country, killing more than 250 people and wounding over 1,100 others. Officials in the gaza strip say over 230 people have been killed and over 1,700 were injured in retaliatory strikes. The Un Security Council plans to meet about the violence in the region tomorrow. The Early Morning assau
Killed in fighting on saturday. Meanwhile, Majorairlines Have cancelled dozens of flights to tel aviv. They include american airlines, air france, lufthansa, emirates, and ryanair, among others. For the latest on the story and to assess what this escalation of tension means for the whole region ive been speaking to our chief international correspondent, lyse doucet. After this extraordinary assault this morning by hamas, which as we have been hearing has taken the israelis by surprise, this is really an unprecedented moment, in of course an area where there has been decades of tension, attacks, all out war. This is a very, very different kind of war for all of the reasons we have just been hearing. The Staggering Number of israeli hostages, both Israeli Military officers and soldiers as well as civilians. The high Israeli Death toll. A far right israeli government. There will certainly be pressure on Benjamin Netanyahu to do what he and other israeli leaders have avoided for decades, a
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communist. he wasn t a true believer. so, we arranged for a meeting with him in the turkish bath in the hilton hotel. we started talking to him. he wanted a better life. he wanted to do something that he could really believe in. ideologically, he was clearly on our side. he didn t like communism. he believed that the american system was superior. all those things kind of came together. we realized we could make a deal with him and we did. and that was a foreign ministry official for the soviet union. and of course, the first issue that came up, we needed a code name for him. we certainly couldn t refer to him in the cable traffic. it wouldn t be secure. so right from the beginning, he