CIA Officer Speaks About The Widow Spy

Course | Registration opens 8/12/2024 8:00 AM EDT

OLLI York Online class York, PA 17403 United States

Zoom (link will be sent the day before the class)

Members and nonmembers

9/13/2024 (one day)

11:00 AM-12:30 PM EDT on Fri

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$20.00

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The speaker will give a thought-provoking talk on her experiences in detail. This topic will be relatively new to the participants, who probably only have experience with this topic from reading novels and seeing movies. Time will be allowed for participants to ask questions after the talk and the speaker will provide answers in detail, couching the talk in the historical context of that time. Participants might want to read the book The Widow Spy by Martha Peterson, available on Amazon. They also might want to look at the website, widowspy.com which gives extensive background about the author and other resources.


Marti Shogi was a CIA officer for thirty-two years, during which she earned the Donovan Award and the George H.W. Bush Award for excellence in counterterrorism. Her career spanned the Vietnam War, the Cold War, and the war on terrorism. She began her career in Moscow, USSR, as the first female officer there. She was responsible for collecting intelligence from a Soviet agent who provided secret Soviet documents to the United States government. She was arrested by the KGB after the compromise of the agent. She wrote The Widow Spy, which includes the details from her early career.