Over the years, from serving in the CIA to sitting on non-profit boards, I have observed first-hand what the addition of even one woman...

SANTA FE, N.M. — On a Tuesday night with the Winter Olympics playing on television, 791 people turned out at the Lensic to see a movie...

The transition from spy to fiction writer has been made a few times: Ian Fleming, Roald Dahl, John Le Carré. Now Valerie Plame,...

Blowback is a spy story co-written by Valerie Plame with the thriller novelist Sarah Lovett, featuring a CIA operative, Vanessa Pierson,...

The heroine of Kathryn Bigelow's controversial new movie Zero Dark Thirtystands out for her weapon of choice when helping to run down...

Years before CIA agent Valerie Plame Wilson's cover was blown in a newspaper column, she faced a private struggle with postpartum...

CIA analyst Carrie Mathison, played exquisitely by Claire Danes on Showtime's Homeland, is exceedingly hard to like. She steals...

“I have long been disappointed in the portrayals in the popular culture of female CIA operatives. They are always such cartoon...

On Sept. 11 I was in the CIA headquarters. I was a senior operations manager. I was working on something called the Iraqi Task Force, and...

When my beautiful twins were born 11 years ago, I was thrilled, but simultaneously and inexplicably felt myself slipping into a black...