A New Book on Women in the CIA Is on the Way: See the Cover (Exclusive)

Mar. 15, 2025

Christina Hillsberg and her new book, ‘Agents of Change: The Women Who Transformed the CIA’.Photo:Alla Polyakova

Alla Polyakova

Feminism, gender equality and espionage collide in a new book about women of the CIA.

Agents of Change: The Women Who Transformed the CIAsheds light on the incredible women in the world of international espionage through a number of exclusive interviews with those involved in the CIA, past and present — many of whom have never spoken about their work publicly until now. The author,Christina Hillsberg, is also a former CIA intelligence officer and expert on women in espionage.

Hillsberg’s book tells the story of the developing Central Intelligence Agency within the context of the women’s movement that persists into the present.

Christina Hillsberg.Alla Polyakova

Agents of Changetackles the history of the fight for gender equality as experienced within the walls of the CIA. But Hillsberg also addresses the current issue the agency faces: a lasting culture of sexual harassment and assault.

“These were women who sacrificed their personal lives, risked their safety, defied expectations and boldly navigated the male-dominated spy organization,” the synopsis reads.

“Hillsberg takes readers inside the Agency in a way that’s never been done before, paying long-overdue tribute to the survivors and thrivers, the indispensable groundbreakers, and defiant rabble-rousers who made the choice to change their lives and in turn, changed history,” the synopsis concludes.

Agents of Change: The Women Who Transformed the CIA.

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Agents of Change: The Women Who Transformed the CIAwill be available June 24, 2025, wherever books are sold.

source: people.com