Elizabeth McIntosh (1915–2015)
Author of Sisterhood of Spies
About the Author
Disambiguation Notice:
This author published works under her two married names Elizabeth P. MacDonald and Elizabeth P. McIntosh.
Works by Elizabeth McIntosh
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- Other names
- MacDonald, Elizabeth P. (1st marriage)
MacDonald, Betty
Peer, Elizabeth (birth)
Heppner, Elizabeth P. - Birthdate
- 1915-03-15
- Date of death
- 2015-06-08
- Gender
- female
- Nationality
- USA
- Birthplace
- Washington, D.C., USA
- Place of death
- Lake Ridge, Virginia, USA
- Places of residence
- Hawaii, USA (childhood)
New York, New York, USA - Education
- University of Washington
- Occupations
- journalist
memoirist
Spy - Organizations
- Office of Strategic Services
- Short biography
- Elizabeth "Betty" Peer MacDonald grew up in Hawaii. During World War II, she worked for the Morale Operations branch of the Office of Strategic Services (OSS), the forerunner of the CIA, in Ceylon alongside Julia McWilliams, later Julia Child, and Paul Child. After the war, she had assignments with Voice of America and the State Department, and joined the CIA in 1958. She shared an apartment in New York for a time with Jane Foster, another of their OSS colleagues. She married as her second husband Lt. Col. Richard Heppner (d. 1958) and then Frederick B. McIntosh. She wrote her memoirs and other books about the role of women spies.
- Disambiguation notice
- This author published works under her two married names Elizabeth P. MacDonald and Elizabeth P. McIntosh.
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