NBC News uses the widely-disseminated galley of former CIA operative Amaryllis Fox’s forthcoming LIFE UNDERCOVER: Coming of Age in the CIA, to share extensive details from the book — meant to illustrate her inclusion of “the sort of details the CIA has censored from previous memoirs.” Among them: The agency typically does not “allow officers to name countries in which they operated, other than war zones,” let alone any discussion of nonofficial cover agents (NOCs) and they how they work; their use of secret “cover communications” software to communicate with sources around the world; and other oerational details. Fox “said […]
