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Queen of Spies: Daphne Park, Britain's Cold War Spy Master

2017· article· en· W2777856147 on OpenAlex
John Breen

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Bibliographic record

VenueMilitary review · 2017
Typearticle
Languageen
FieldSocial Sciences
TopicGender, Security, and Conflict
Canadian institutionsnot available
Fundersnot available
KeywordsAgency (philosophy)Diversity (politics)AccountabilityWorkforceInclusion (mineral)ManagementPolitical scienceSociologyPublic administrationLawGender studiesSocial scienceEconomics
DOInot available

Abstract

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In early February 2016, the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) released Diversity and Inclusion Strategy for 2016-2019 to the public, which offered unified roadmap for diversity and inclusion goals, actions, and accountability measures at the CIA over the next three years. (1) This strategic framework was informed, in part, by the 2013 Advisory Group on Women in report, the culmination of an effort led by former Secretary of State Madeleine K. Albright, which addressed the question, why are more women at the CIA not being promoted to the highest leadership positions? (2) The study came to the somewhat unsatisfying conclusion that there was no single reason why women in the organization were, presumably, not getting promoted into the ranks of the Senior Intelligence Service. The ten recommendations of the Director's Advisory Group were simply a menu of best management practices. (3) According to a 2015 statement by then CIA Director John Brennan, the subsequent 2014 Diversity in Leadership Study identified cultural, management, and organizational issues that contribute to a lack of diversity in the Agency's leadership. (4) [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] As of 2013, women represented approximately 46 percent of the CIA's workforce--a slight improvement from 38 percent in 1980. (5) Promisingly, the number of women holding the ranks of GS-13, 14, or 15 increased from 9 to 44 percent in that period. (6) These are agency-wide statistics, but what remains unacknowledged is the percentage of women who have made their way to the heights of the Directorate of Operations--leading the case officers who clandestinely recruit and handle the CIA's spies, and who conduct presidentially directed covert action. This is the most important work of the CIA, representing some of the agency's greatest successes and most publicly embarrassing failures. Women have indeed held some senior leadership positions at the CIA--notably, the first-ever female deputy director of the CIA, Avril Haines, who then moved on to become the deputy national security advisor to the president in 2014. (7) That said, there has never been a female director of the CIA, nor to anyone's knowledge has there ever been a female deputy director for operations--the officer in charge of the Directorate of Operations. Paddy Hayes, in Queen of Spies, explores the role of women in espionage, detailing the life and career of Daphne Park, who rose to the most senior ranks of the British Secret Intelligence Service (BSIS) as an area controller for operations in the Western Hemisphere--United States, Canada, Latin America, and the Caribbean. Hayes takes the reader back to Park's childhood in Africa and to her initial foray into espionage and covert action during World War II with the Special Operations Executive--the organizational equivalent to the Office of Strategic Services, the predecessor of the CIA. Her subsequent career in BSIS included notable espionage assignments to Moscow, the Congo, and Vietnam. Park served in the Soviet Union at the height of the mid-1950s Cold War, handling clandestine Russian agents in the most challenging of counterintelligence environments. In the Congo, Park was involved in the now infamous removal from power and death of the country's leader, Patrice Lumumba. (8) And, in Vietnam, she was the BSIS representative to North Vietnam, stationed at the British Consulate in Hanoi from 1969 to 1970. Daphne Park retired from BSIS in 1979. She became the principal of Somerville College, Oxford, from 1980 to 1989, and she was named by then Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher as a board member of the British Broadcasting Corporation. Park's career makes for interesting reading, and the author does an admirable job weaving her exploits into the larger fabric of Cold War intrigue. Her story is, of course, incomplete without addressing the immense challenges Park faced as she attempted to move up the ladder of an organization dominated by an old-boys' network. …

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metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.000
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Study designCandidate signal: Not applicable · Consensus signal: Not applicable
GenreCandidate signal: Review · Consensus signal: Review
Teacher disagreement score0.632
Threshold uncertainty score1.000

Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category

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Opus teacher head0.070
GPT teacher head0.336
Teacher spread0.266 · how far apart the two teachers sit on this one work
Validation statusscore_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from it