Ex-CIA spy readies to publish book about undercover exploits without agency approval.
WASHINGTON — A former CIA officer who says she spent years under deep cover has written what appears to be one of the most revealing memoirs ever put to paper by an American intelligence operative — a book so intriguing that Apple bought the television rights even before its October publication date.
The details are particularly sensitive because Fox says she operated under nonofficial cover, meaning she posed as a private citizen, not a diplomat. So-called NOCs put themselves at greater risk because they lack diplomatic immunity and can be arrested and jailed if caught spying. The CIA doesn't discuss how it uses NOCs. Nor does the agency typically allow officers to name countries in which they operated, other than war zones.Fox, who is now married to a grandson of Robert F.
She writes that she was recruited while a graduate student at Georgetown University after she developed an algorithm that predicted the likelihood that an area would be used as a terrorist safe haven. According to her book, she was sent to the agency training base in Virginia known as the Farm, where she learned how to spot surveillance, develop rapport with potential sources, and shoot an M4 rifle.
Fox writes powerfully about the stresses of living under cover, including what that life does to relationships. She married her first husband, a British subject, mainly because it was a choice between marriage and breaking up. That marriage was annulled, and her marriage to Fox didn't survive, either.
In the book's climatic scene, she describes meeting in Karachi with armed extremists affiliated with al Qaeda and the Taliban in an effort to convince them to stop their compatriots from setting off the bomb. She portrays the meeting as a success, in part because she offered a Jihadi some clove oil to help with his baby daughter's asthma. She doesn't mention any security team or coordination with Pakistani intelligence.
If that and other scenes in the book really happened, Fox may be revealing sensitive information, agency veterans say. And if it didn't, she may be violating one of the core tenets of nonfiction writing, says Samuel Freedman, who teaches courses in ethics and nonfiction writing as a journalism professor at Columbia University."If she wants to write that kind of a book, why not do it as a work of fiction?" he said.
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