Millicent Jessie Eleanor Bagot (1907-2006) could smell a rat at twenty paces and had an illustrious career as one of the UK’s premier spy hunters and what we now call Whistleblowers. The last decade has been full of Dame Whistleblowers so we should pay particular attention to the woman who made a career of sniffing [...]
Help a Sister Out
Okay, so here we go with the second departure from writing about the dames, but it is certainly for a good cause and it is related to themes of this blog…. The National Women’s History Museum in Washington DC is in need of a permanent home. Apparently those in government do not recognize the need [...]
Nancy McNally
Anna Deavere Smith served as National Security Advisor, Dr. Nancy McNally, on TV’s “The West Wing” for seven seasons. On a fictional level, she beats Condleeaza Rice to the finish line for an African-American woman serving in the position. On a real level, she plays Paul McCartney to Allison Janey’s John Lennon, aka dynamic duo [...]
Kate Burroughs
Laura Linney portrays the character Kate Burroughs, an FBI agent hunting the mole, Robert Hanssen, in the 2007 film “Breach”. Robert Hanssen, less you forgot, is considered the most treacherous spy in the history of the US. He was arrested in 2001 after 16 illustrious years of espionage for the former Soviet Union. Now whether [...]
C.J. Cregg
Say what you will about the politics of the show, but TV’s “The West Wing” accomplished a very important feat: the writers of the show provided us with a fully realized female character at a time when women characters on TV kinda sucked. Okay, so C.J. was not a spy-dame, per se, but this lady [...]
