Word: niesciur
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...help her, Vertefeuille had only Fran Smith, a veteran in the Soviet division, and two retirees, Benjamin Franklin Pepper and Daniel Niesciur. Later, Sandy Grimes, another experienced officer in the Soviet division, joined the team. The assignment of three women--Vertefeuille, Smith and Grimes--reflected a sexist belief among the CIA's senior male executives that "little gray-haired old ladies," as one case officer put it, were best suited to perform the painstaking work of catching a mole. Computers might help, the prevailing wisdom went, but only the women had the patience and the skills to go through mountains...
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