Jane Burrell became the first CIA officer to die while working for the agency when the plane in which she was riding – an Air France DC-3 – crashed while it was approaching the Le Bourget airport near Paris on Jan. 6, 1948.
Burden Pasenelli, a former special agent who shattered gender barriers in the FBI, died Tuesday in Arizona following a brief illness.
By Ross Parker ticklethewire.com Marijuana use has doubled in the last decade, and with that has come a doubling in the use disorders associated with it, according to a recent medical study by a Columbia University epidemiologist published this week in The Journal of the American Medical Association Psychiatry and in Medscape Medical News. Dr. Deborah Hasin reported…
Thirty years ago this month, the first female FBI agent was killed in the line of duty.
The Border Patrol went on a hiring spree for more female agents but came far short of its goal of hiring up to 1,600 women.
The Border Patrol’s unprecedented campaign to hire more women is not just about equality.
By Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com A former Secret Service agent has published a book about her experience as one of the first women on the presidential protection force, The Hill reports. Sue Ann Baker’s memoir, “Behind the Shades,” details becoming one of the first five female agents in 1971 – long after the Secret Service was…
