The Jackies were privileged to have Marti Peterson speak to the chapter about her experience during the Cold War Era.
Marti spent 31 years in the CIA in Moscow as a spy and received extensive training in covert tradecraft and the Russian language. Her book "The Widow Spy" talks about her CIA journeys in the jungles of Laos to prison in Moscow.
Marti's adventures provided the group with great entertainment as well as reality during the Cold War.
"The Widow Spy"
by: Martha B. Peterson
The Widow Spy is the firsthand account of a true Cold War spy operation in Moscow, told exclusively by the CIA case officer who lived this experience. Martha D. Peterson was one of the first women to be assigned to Moscow, a very difficult operational environment. Her story begins in Laos during the Vietnam War where she accompanied her husband, a CIA officer