Code Name Blue Wren: The True Story of America's Most Dangerous Female Spy-and the Sister She Betrayed

Code Name Blue Wren: The True Story of America's Most Dangerous Female Spy-and the Sister She Betrayed

by Jim Popkin
Code Name Blue Wren: The True Story of America's Most Dangerous Female Spy-and the Sister She Betrayed

Code Name Blue Wren: The True Story of America's Most Dangerous Female Spy-and the Sister She Betrayed

by Jim Popkin

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Overview

*An Amazon Best Book of 2023*
*An Apple Book of the Month for January*


“This is the definitive history of how one of America’s most highly regarded intelligence analysts betrayed her country, and how she almost got away with it.” —Pete Williams, former NBC News justice correspondent

Investigative journalist Jim Popkin weaves the tale of two sisters who chose two very different paths, plus the unsung heroes who fought to bring Ana Montes to justice. With exclusive access to a “secret” CIA behavioral profile of former US intelligence community superstar Ana Montes, family memoirs, and Ana’s incriminating letters from prison, Popkin reveals the making of “one of the most damaging spies in US history.” After more than two decades in federal prison, Montes was freed in January 2023, and this new paperback edition includes an update on her activities since leaving prison.

“Popkin keeps the reader hooked until the handcuffs are slapped on, and beyond.” —Star Tribune

Code Name Blue Wren earns a prestigious four out of four trench coats.” The Cipher Brief

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9781335017550
Publisher: Hanover Square Press
Publication date: 04/23/2024
Edition description: Original
Pages: 368
Sales rank: 268,967
Product dimensions: 5.20(w) x 7.70(h) x 1.00(d)

About the Author

Jim Popkin is a journalist and writer whose work has appeared in Washington Post Magazine, WIRED, Newsweek, Slate, The Guardian, Washingtonian and on National Public Radio. He was a senior investigative producer at NBC News as well as an on-air correspondent, and his stories have appeared on NBC’s Today, NBC Nightly News, MSNBC and CNBC. He received a BA from Northwestern University and a master’s of studies in law from Yale Law School, and he currently resides in Washington, DC.

Table of Contents

Introduction 13

Chapter 1 The World's Worst Sorority 19

Chapter 2 Topeka 23

Chapter 3 The Hothouse 31

Chapter 4 Stevie Wonder and Chocolate Chip Cookies 39

Chapter 5 The Cauldron 53

Chapter 6 "Our Native Land Calls to Us" 63

Chapter 7 "A Sense of Moral Outrage" 71

Chapter 8 "A Rich Array of Targets" 83

Chapter 9 Headed for a Collision 93

Chapter 10 Destination Havana 95

Chapter 11 Miami Vice 105

Chapter 12 A Warrior Monk Deep within the Bureaucracy 111

Chapter 13 Death of a Green Beret 117

Chapter 14 Surrounded 123

Chapter 15 A Meteoric Rise 129

Chapter 16 Spying Gets Lonely 133

Chapter 17 Royal Flush 141

Chapter 18 The Kmart Security Guard 147

Chapter 19 The Interview 151

Chapter 20 "One of the Most Damaging Spies" 157

Chapter 21 Bottoming Out 171

Chapter 22 "A Limited Capacity" 177

Chapter 23 The Seventh Floor 185

Chapter 24 La Otra 189

Chapter 25 McCoy 197

Chapter 26 Warming Up the Ice Queen 205

Chapter 27 Grip and Grin 209

Chapter 28 Scott and Gator 213

Chapter 29 "We're Going to War" 217

Chapter 30 Full Field 225

Chapter 31 Confiding in Robert Hanssen 233

Chapter 32 Snuckln like Ninjas 239

Chapter 33 A Manati Farewell 247

Chapter 34 Out of Time 251

Chapter 35 The Immaculate Confession 257

Chapter 36 Your Sister Is a Spy 263

Chapter 37 "All the World Is One Country" 271

Chapter 38 Escape to Sweden 281

Chapter 39 "A Psychological Hell" 289

Chapter 40 "You Are a Coward" 297

Chapter 41 Release 301

Epilogue 303

Author's Note 307

Endnotes 315

Index 339

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