Presented by Heidi August
Heidi will tell us about her 35-year career in the most secret and powerful intelligence service of the United States. Starting as a file clerk in 1968 (the only job open to women at that time), Heidi rose to the equivalent rank of a three-star general. Following foreign language training, she received her first operational assignment as a Case Officer in Europe, where she focused on agent recruitment and counter-proliferation operations. Major positions she has held at Agency headquarters include Chief of South Asia Operations and Chief of Operations of the Counter-Terrorism Center. Her experiences range from a military coup in North Africa to being in the first group of women to compete against male counterparts in the Basic Operations Course (equivalent to Officer Candidate School in the military). Ms. August led one of the Agency’s largest overseas stations and was promoted to Senior Intelligence Service in 1996. Her last assignment was in a war-torn Middle Eastern country. She has worked closely with the NSA, FBI, US Military, and many foreign intelligence agencies. Ms. August was awarded the Career Intelligence Medal upon her retirement in 2004. On the day she retired the Agency presented her with the U.S. flag that had been flown in her honor over the Headquarters compound on that date.
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