Code Name Blue Wren: The True Story of America's Most Dangerous Female Spy-and the Sister She Betrayed

Code Name Blue Wren: The True Story of America's Most Dangerous Female Spy-and the Sister She Betrayed

by Jim Popkin
Code Name Blue Wren: The True Story of America's Most Dangerous Female Spy-and the Sister She Betrayed

Code Name Blue Wren: The True Story of America's Most Dangerous Female Spy-and the Sister She Betrayed

by Jim Popkin

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Overview

The incredible true story of Ana Montes, the most dangerous female spy in US history, drawing upon never-before-seen material and to be published upon her release from prison, for readers of Agent Sonya and A Woman of No Importance.

Just days after September 11, the most dangerous female spy in American history was arrested by federal authorities. She wasn’t involved in the terrorist attacks on the World Trade Center. Instead, she was a high-level staff member at the Defense Intelligence Agency. Her name was Ana Montes, and she had spent seventeen years feeding American secrets to the Cuban government, who made a habit of selling US intel to the highest bidders—Russia, Venezuela and Iran. Ana grew up in a family of American military and government agents, and while even her own sister, Lucy, was in charge of tracking down Cuban spies, unbeknownst to Lucy, the most successful double agent shared Thanksgiving dinner with her.

In Code Name Blue Wren, journalist Jim Popkin shares the fascinating story of Ana Montes and just how she came to be one of the most notorious suppliers of some of our nation’s biggest secrets. Readers will also gain an inside look into Lucy’s side of the story, as she worked for the FBI and struggled to find Ana in an operation code-named Blue Wren. Her sister’s offenses were so grave, she is called the most damaging female spy in history.

With never-before-seen details of the operation and unprecedented access to key characters in the story, Jim Popkin has provided a propulsive account about betrayal, the clandestine world of espionage and two sisters who chose two very different paths.


Product Details

ISBN-13: 9798212222778
Publisher: Harlequin Audio
Publication date: 01/03/2023
Product dimensions: 5.20(w) x 5.70(h) x (d)

About the Author

Jim Popkin is a journalist and writer whose work has appeared in Washington Post Magazine, WIRED, Newsweek, Slate, The Guardian, Washingtonian and on National Public Radio. He was a senior investigative producer at NBC News as well as an on-air correspondent, and his stories have appeared on NBC’s Today, NBC Nightly News, MSNBC and CNBC. He received a BA from Northwestern University and a master’s of studies in law from Yale Law School, and he currently resides in Washington, DC.

Table of Contents

Introduction 13

Chapter 1 The World's Worst Sorority 19

Chapter 2 Topeka 23

Chapter 3 The Hothouse 31

Chapter 4 Stevie Wonder and Chocolate Chip Cookies 39

Chapter 5 The Cauldron 53

Chapter 6 "Our Native Land Calls to Us" 63

Chapter 7 "A Sense of Moral Outrage" 71

Chapter 8 "A Rich Array of Targets" 83

Chapter 9 Headed for a Collision 93

Chapter 10 Destination Havana 95

Chapter 11 Miami Vice 105

Chapter 12 A Warrior Monk Deep within the Bureaucracy 111

Chapter 13 Death of a Green Beret 117

Chapter 14 Surrounded 123

Chapter 15 A Meteoric Rise 129

Chapter 16 Spying Gets Lonely 133

Chapter 17 Royal Flush 141

Chapter 18 The Kmart Security Guard 147

Chapter 19 The Interview 151

Chapter 20 "One of the Most Damaging Spies" 157

Chapter 21 Bottoming Out 171

Chapter 22 "A Limited Capacity" 177

Chapter 23 The Seventh Floor 185

Chapter 24 La Otra 189

Chapter 25 McCoy 197

Chapter 26 Warming Up the Ice Queen 205

Chapter 27 Grip and Grin 209

Chapter 28 Scott and Gator 213

Chapter 29 "We're Going to War" 217

Chapter 30 Full Field 225

Chapter 31 Confiding in Robert Hanssen 233

Chapter 32 Snuckln like Ninjas 239

Chapter 33 A Manati Farewell 247

Chapter 34 Out of Time 251

Chapter 35 The Immaculate Confession 257

Chapter 36 Your Sister Is a Spy 263

Chapter 37 "All the World Is One Country" 271

Chapter 38 Escape to Sweden 281

Chapter 39 "A Psychological Hell" 289

Chapter 40 "You Are a Coward" 297

Chapter 41 Release 301

Epilogue 303

Author's Note 307

Endnotes 315

Index 339

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