‘My father was a covert CIA agent’

The World

Lisa is an American who grew up in the 1950s and 1960s in various overseas posts. When she was in high school, she learned her father was a covert CIA agent.  Lisa talks to Marco Werman about how growing up in a covert family has affected her family.

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