The men in the office thought that was pretty cool because no one had ever sent them a secret writing Christmas card.

Oh my gosh and a woman taught him, oh Lord, how did that happen?

And the operation was great and that was the beginning. and the I think I wrote in the book that I was on a train going down to Switzerland at one point with the

turned out I was in the compartment with the president of the World Bank.

I'm going to

switch a secret writing thing and a photo thing at the same time and I thought I like this job this is a very

a very cool job you mentioned something though though too and I know this too like said we had I

grew up for a while in Iran we were talking about that because obviously Argo was based out of

Tehran you know the embassy there and you're right certain cultures don't look at women, but I'll tell you who else overlooked women,

were the Soviets. The Soviets believed women weren't capable of doing it. My first thought was Martha

Peterson, right? One of the first case officers to get rolled.

They were surprised when she got rolled up on that.

Obviously they had, were able to figure out

there was going to be a meet, but nobody believed

a woman could be a case officer.

And I think that to our benefit and to their detriment,

so many people underestimated you because you were a woman.

And I think what a perfect cover, you know.

That was part of the rationale for sending Marty in the first place. She was the first female case officer in Moscow.

And we knew from the beginning that she would have a good chance of success because they would not believe that we would use women.

They wouldn't use women and they just wouldn't believe that we would use women.

Smart Marty, talk about a trailblazer.

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