A Woman I Know: Female Spies, Double Identities, and a New Story of the Kennedy Assassination

By: Mary Haverstick Hardcover 544 Pages Crown Publishing Group ISBN-13: 9780593727812 Calling something an "untold story" might feel overdone, but this really is that. It’s the Kennedy Assassination from a new angle, women spies of the Cold War and a refreshing historical narrative that is as fascinating for its content as it is compulsively well written. The true story of a filmmaker whose investigation of her film’s subject opened a new window onto the world of Cold War espionage, CIA secrets, and the assassination of John F. Kennedy.Independent filmmaker Mary Haverstick thought she’d stumbled onto the project of a lifetime—a biopic of aviation pioneer Jerrie Cobb, the key figure in a group of extraordinary women who in 1960 passed the same tests as the legendary male astronauts of the Mercury 7 but never went to space. Just as casting was set to begin, Haverstick received a mysterious warning from a government agent; soon she began to suspect that there was more to Jerrie’s sto