Others regard Carrie as a work of imagination encapsulating some of the qualities and flaws of real agency women. The CIA is now almost 50% female.

WHILE British secret agents of the 1970s were portrayed on TV in tight blue jeans, shirts with huge collars, ludicrous wide ties and brown cardigans – a la The Professionals – their real-life ...

Bennett is still at the CIA and has been publicly identified on a number of occasions, which is why her real name is used here. After 9/11, women continued to play a key role in the hunt for bin ...