Blowing My Cover: My Life as a CIA Spy

What an enjoyable book this was!  Author Lindsay Moran is entertaining and engaging as she writes about her experiences training to be—and working as—a CIA agent.  She’s not some superwoman and wasn’t raised in exotic foreign lands, she’s just a curious and well-educated person who thinks she’d enjoy being “a spy”.  Moran was working as an English teacher at the Community College of San Francisco at the same time that I was taking computer classes there, so we’ve both covered a lot of ground in the last 7 years, but I’ll give Moran the edge on having the more interesting story to tell.  She spent time in Bulgaria on a teaching fellowship, applied and was accepted to the CIA, completed her training, worked in the field, and eventually resigned.  Her book reveals that life as a spy is really quite mundane and entails a lot of paperwork, and that in many cases, the whole concept of having “secret agents” is an idea whose time has come and gone.  After reading this book I find it hard to look at the CIA as anything but a bunch of old guys playing an expensive version of “spy vs. spy”, while wasting billions of dollars in the process.  I’d happily read any other book that Lindsay Moran cares to write, and I’ll pretend that the publication of Blowing My Cover: My LIfe as a CIA Spy, might actually lead to important reforms in the organization.  Ha ha… I made myself laugh with that one.

Posted by Leigh-Ann on 07/01 at 07:34 PM

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