TY - BOOK AU - Bittu K Singh (ed.) TI - WOMEN IN SECRET AGENCIES SN - 9789385160332 U1 - 364.12092 PY - 2015////01/01 CY - Delhi PB - Lenin Media KW - Secret service KW - Biography KW - Spies KW - Women spies KW - World War (1939-1945) KW - Military participation--Female KW - Contents:- Rose Greenhow-Harriet Tubman-Belle Boyd-Elizabeth Van Lew-Christine Granville-Violette Szabo-Noor Inayat Khan-Stella Rimington-Andree Borrel-Nancy Wake-Cecile Pearl witherington-Virginia Hall-Odette Hallowes-Diana Rowden-Vera Leigh-Sonya Olschanezky-Krystyna Skarbek-Eileen Nearne : British Spy-Vera Atking-Lise de Baissac-Yuonne Baseden-Sonya Butt-Muriel Byck-Yvonne Cormeay-Hannah Szenes-Mary Katherine Herbert-Jacqueline Nearne-Lilian Rolfe-Yvonne Cormeau- Hannah Szenes-Mary Katherine Herbert-Jacqueline Nearne-Lilian Rolfe-Yvonne Rudelatt-Mata Hari-Ethel Rosenberg-Anna Chapman N1 - Spices and secret agents played an important role in World War II. Each country had their own spy organizations that tried to get secret information about their enemies such as troop movements, supplies, bunker, locations, and new weapons. An Agent should be calm, unostentatious, and reticent, women are emotional, vain loquacious. They fall in love easily and without discrimination. They are impatient with the strict requirements of security measures. They withstand hardships poorly, Moreover, they tend to become even less capable physically and less responsible mentally for several days out of every month. Despite the success of these women who managed to gravitate into the Operations Division from the Administrative or analysis divisions, the number of direct women recruits to the Operations Division remained low till Ronald Reagan become the President, During his presidency, under the pressure of the operational requirements for the covert war against the USSR in Afghanistan, the recruitment of women operatives to the CIA increased. Today, the secret service attracted and retains professional women of all backgrounds and experiences who fill a wide range of law enforcement professional and technical positions ER -