S8 Ep736: 3. THE RISE OF THE CASE OFFICER AND MALTA 1985 Guest Mundy: Guest Liza Mundy follows Heidi August’s career as she broke into the prestigious ranks of CIA"case officers",. Mastering tradecraft under mentor David Whipple, August proved women could uniquely
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🗓️ 13 April 2026
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3. THE RISE OF THE CASE OFFICER AND MALTA 1985 Guest Mundy: Guest Liza Mundy follows Heidi August’s career as she broke into the prestigious ranks of CIA"case officers",. Mastering tradecraft under mentor David Whipple, August proved women could uniquely recruit assets by identifying vulnerabilities in other female clerks. She eventually overcame the derogatory "retread" label to become a Mediterranean station chief. In 1985, she managed the tragic Egyptian Air hijacking in Malta, coordinating with various entities and informing a victim's family of their loss. This event catalyzed August’s pivot from Cold War Soviet operations to the emerging field of counterterrorism,. (4)
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| 0:35.1 | CBS Eye on the World. |
| 0:36.6 | The book is The Sisterhood, the Secret History of Women at the CIA. |
| 0:39.9 | Liza Mundy is the author, and we're following Heidi August, the adventures of |
| 0:44.6 | much of the 70s and 80s and 90s and into the 21st century can be told from Heidi's point |
| 0:51.6 | of view, she's an all-purpose adventurous. And we now go to Germany, |
| 0:57.8 | where she's with Hans Jensen, but importantly, she goes to Stockholm, where she meets David |
| 1:03.1 | Whipple, a Dartmouth graduate, who I picture has a bald head or a shaved head, and unusual amounts |
| 1:10.2 | of energy. |
| 1:18.8 | And he also is fervently preaching against something that they called women's lib in 1970s. It's all gone now, but it's ancient history. And yet at the same time, he empowers |
| 1:24.9 | Heidi as his office assistant. |
| 1:28.1 | He trusts her. |
| 1:29.3 | Why? |
| 1:29.9 | Right. |
| 1:30.1 | What is what is, what does Heidi say about that? |
| 1:33.7 | Well, Heidi is obviously very competent and certainly very trustworthy. |
| 1:39.3 | And she, you know, when she wanted to work for the CIA originally as a child, she'd envisioned living in Europe. That's sort of the way everybody starts. You know, they envisioned this, |
| 1:48.2 | they'd end up in Paris or end up in Germany. And obviously, her first posting was in Africa. |
| 1:53.1 | And many officers would discover that Africa actually was a very, a place where you could really |
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