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Super spy girl: US President Donald Trump's new CIA pick Gina Haspel

Ms Haspel hasn't been greeted with the avalanche of media gush that inevitably follows a woman who becomes the first among her gender to get a top job, says the author

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Shuma Raha
What’s your idea of a female spy? A smouldering double agent? A ruthless femme fatale as good at seducing men as she is at putting a bullet through them? Or a chilling tactician, a high priestess of spydom, who presides over lesser spooks and stops at nothing to get the job done?
 
Well, popular culture just got some fresh grist for its many-splendoured image of the female spy. This week US President Donald Trump announced that his pick for the next CIA director was Gina Haspel, an award-winning intelligence officer who has spent most of her career in undercover
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