James Tiptree jun.

[Mike Weaver]

  tombesh at aol.com wrote:
>She was career CIA.

No she wasn't.

IMO Alice Sheldon, the woman behind the pseudonym was one of the great 
short story writers of the century. Anyone not averse to science fiction 
who has not read her should check out her first three or four collections.

She was an early -1952- member of the CIA, co-founded the photo 
intelligence unit, but she resigned in 1955

>"Anyway, I didn't like [what was happening in the CIA]. I was trying to do 
>basic science in intelligence and just didn't fit. One evening I left the 
>safe open--the only time I'd ever done that in my life. I caught it after 
>twenty minutes and went back, but I knew that my subconscious was speaking 
>and that if I didn't listen to it I would do something much worse. So I 
>quit . . ..
>
>"They tried to keep me in . . .
>
>"I was all choked up with Ting [her husband] because I was having to 
>submerge myself to help him. He was in a very high pressure job as Chief 
>of Current Intelligence . . .· And so I ran away. I used my clandestine 
>training to disappear. In a day I had a new name, a new bank account, had 
>rented a house and really destroyed all traces of my former personality, 
>including sanitizing my books and everything else. I was really a 
>different person in the bottom of this little house where I lived for 
>about six months. And Ting never found me, though he really hunted for me. 
>And then finally he did, and actually came and courted me for the first time.

from
http://mtsu32.mtsu.edu:11072/Tiptree/