CIA

Burnt Shadows begins at Guantanamo detention camp, as an unnamed prisoner is ushered to his cell, asking himself How did it come to this? To answer this question, the novel takes the reader back to...

After this came a sharp switch in career path. Both Sheldons went to work for the CIA . Because of her gender, at a time when working women were an under-promoted minority, Alice remained at...

In summer 1955 this marriage went through a crisis. Alice left her job at the CIA , longing for more time to write and full of resentment both at the paid work and at her...

The world premiere of an animated film of GO 's Animal Farm, funded by the CIA and in course of production since 1951, was held at the Paris Theatre in New York.

BR 's politics were left-leaning, if not as optimistic as those of her staunchly Socialist father. She had the distinction of having been thrown out of two countries with diametrically opposed oppressive regimes, South Africa...