Marti Denny Peterson graduated from Darien High School in 1963 and from Drew University in 1967. Married in 1969, she accompanied her husband, a CIA officer, to Laos. After he tragically was killed in a helicopter crash, Marti joined the CIA and became a case officer beginning her own 30-year CIA career. After learning Russian, she was one of the first women to be assigned to Moscow, a very difficult operational environment. “The Widow Spy” is her first-hand account of that experience, where she walked the dark streets of Moscow alone, placing dead-drops and avoiding the relentless eye of the KGB. Her book chronicles the clandestine activities that eventually led to her arrest and detention in Lubyanka Prison. She retired from the CIA in 2003 and now lives in Wilmington, N.C.
Arranged by Charles Salmans