W.E. (Bill) Colby Signed Letter to Elizabeth McIntosh OSS - CIA Spy Retirement

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W.E. (Bill) Colby Signed Letter to Elizabeth McIntosh OSS - CIA Spy Retirement:
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Up For sale:RarePersonal Letter to Elizabeth (Betty) P. McIntosh from
W.E. (Bill) Colby, Director of the C.I.A. in 1973
Letter of Thanks and Appreciation for Her Service to Country andWishing Her Well in Retirement from the CIA.

Signed: Bill above his typed name: W.E. Colby, Director

This was framed and hung in her home until her death.

From the Estate of: Elizabeth Peet MacDonald

AKA:

Elizabeth Peet McIntoshBornElizabeth Sebree Peet
March 1, 1915
Washington, D.C., United StatesDiedJune 8, 2015 (aged100)
Lake Ridge, Virginia, United StatesCauseof deathHeart attackSpouse(s)Alexander MacDonald
(m. 19??–19??; divorced)
Richard Heppner
(m. 19??–1958; his death)
Frederick McIntosh
(m. 1962–2004; his death)Google her name to learn about one of the most Famous Female Spy\'s Known.
She worked with Julia Child (we have a photo of them together in Sri Lanka) and many others.
Betty grew up in Hawaii, covered the attack on Pearl Harbor as a reporter and then to Washington.
She attended Punahou , the same school Barrack Obama Graduated from in 1979.

Elizabeth Peet McIntosh began her career by covering the attack at Pearl HarborShe came to work at the OSS / MO in Chinaas one of their first Female Agents, working under William J. Donovan.
Later in 1958, she joined the CIA and worked there until her retirement.
The following is from Wikipedia online:

\"Elizabeth \"Betty\" Peet McIntosh (March 1, 1915 – June 8, 2015) was known for her undercover work during World War II for the OSS (forerunner of the CIA).

She was the daughter of two reporters and raised in Honolulu, Hawaii. While in Hawaii, McIntosh studied and learned to speak Japanese. Just like her parents, she also became a reporter and returned to the Washington, D.C. area once World War II had begun in order to cover Eleanor Roosevelt and other government activities. In January 1943, she was asked to join the Office of Strategic Services because she had become fluent in Japanese. She was then sent to India where her main job was to intervene in the postcard communication that troops would send home to India while stationed in Japan. She became one of the few women assigned to Morale Operations where she created \"disinformation,\" or fake reports, documents and postcards which would \"undermine Japanese morale.\"

After her time with the OSS, McIntosh published her memoir titled \"Undercover Girl\" in 1947. She wrote two children\'s books as well. In 1958, McIntosh began working for the CIA and worked there until she retired in 1973. She also wrote Sisterhood of Spies: The Women of the OSS, first published in 1998. In 2012, McIntosh was honored as one of the Library of Virginia\'s \"Virginia Women in History\".[1]

McIntosh died on June 8, 2015, in Lake Ridge, Virginia after a heart attack. She was 100 years old.

William Joseph (\"Wild Bill\") Donovan (January 1, 1883 – February 8, 1959) was an American soldier, lawyer, intelligence officer and diplomat. Donovan is best remembered as the wartime head of the Office of Strategic Services (OSS), the precursor to the Central Intelligence Agency, during World War II. He is also known as the \"Father of American Intelligence\" and the \"Father of Central Intelligence\". \"The Central Intelligence Agency regards Donovan as its founding father,\" according to journalist Evan Thomas in a 2011 Vanity Fair profile. The lobby of CIA headquarters, in Langley, Virginia, now features a statue of Donovan. Thomas observed that Donovan\'s \"exploits are utterly improbable but by now well documented in declassified wartime records that portray a brave, noble, headlong, gleeful, sometimes outrageous pursuit of action and skulduggery.\"

A decorated veteran of World War I, Donovan is the only person to have received all four of the United States\' highest awards: The Medal of Honor, the Distinguished Service Cross, the Distinguished Service Medal, and the National Security Medal.[1] He is a recipient of the Silver Star and Purple Heart, as well as decorations from a number of other nations for his service during both World Wars.\"

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