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Hello. Hello and welcome to Spycast from the Secret Files of the International Spy Museum in Washington, D.C.

I'm Peter Ernest, the Executive Director of the Museum. I served for some

36 years in the Central Intelligence Agency, largely as what is called an operations officer

or a case officer.

Every month we'll be bringing you interesting talks

with visitors, with authors, with others

who have something to do with the world of intelligence

and espionage. World Intelligence and Espionage. My guest today is an extraordinary woman. Her name

is Elizabeth McIntosh and she was one of those extraordinary women who volunteered during World War II for secret activities.

The activities conducted by what was called the Office of Special Services, the OSS, and that was the predecessor

organization to today's CIA, the Central Intelligence Agency.

OSS was formed and it lasted through the war and then was dissolved at the end of the war by President Truman.

Elizabeth McIntosh served in OSS through the end of the war.

After the war, she joined the new organization, the Central Intelligence Agency,

and remained there for another 14 years before

retiring from that. And during her time in the OSH she served in both in both

what was called Ceylon, today is Sri Lanka, as well as in China, where she was to meet

the man she would later marry. Later, Elizabeth later Elizabeth kept in touch with many of the women that she'd known and

she wrote a book which is a minor classic in the Intelligence Field called Sisterhood of Spies, Women of the OSS, and she focused

particularly on the women and her colleagues.

And in fact, when we began the International Spy Museum, we asked her permission to call one of our galleries

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