Secretaries had access to all sorts of information.
CIA tried to cover up alleged sexual assault on female spy-in-training at agency HQ, lawsuit allegesEloise Page had a master’s degree in political science from George Washington University, but when she started her career at the CIA’s predecessor, the Office of Strategic Services , in 1942, it was as a secretary.
But, Mundy writes, “Secretaries did much more than type … They drafted correspondence and took calls from bosses’ colleagues, wives, children, mistresses, enemies, and friends.“They knew who was angry with whom and who was undermining whom and who was having sex at lunchtime with a woman not his wife. One former secretary recalled that she paid all her boss’s bills, ‘wrote his mother a letter every week,’ and knew how much he spent on therapy sessions.
But Page also played the men at their own game. After the CIA was established in 1947, Page went on to become the highest ranking female officer in the clandestine operations service.“Apart from knowing secrets, the key to her advancement was making herself unpleasant,” writes Mundy. A fellow agent, Lee Coyle, tells Mundy: “She scared some of these men to death. They were afraid to go into her office.
Other agents, like Lisa Manful, used traditional feminine traits, such as empathy and emotional intelligence, to win over sources and get information.For those women who could withstand the rampant sexism at the CIA, there were opportunities.
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