Liza Mundy, author of The Sisterhood: The Secret History of Women at the CIA, Part One: During World War II, the Office of Strategic Services (OSS) actively recruits highly educated women like Mary Bancroft, who translates crucial intelligence in Switzerland. Bancroft handles double agent Hans Gisevius, providing intelligence that establishes Allen Dulles's career, though she receives no public credit. Decades later, in 1969, college graduate Heidi August is hired as a clerk-secretary and sent to Libya. When Muammar Gaddafi launches a sudden coup, August is the first to witness it, driving through gunfire to successfully burn out the station's classified files while senior male officers are caught flat-footed. (1)