The details are particularly sensitive because Fox says she operated under nonofficial cover, meaning she posed as a private citizen, not a diplomat. She describes disguises, surveillance avoidance techniques and how the CIA obtained false identifications from motor vehicle and passport agencies. She offers details about how the CIA uses secret software - "covcom," for covert communications" - to message sources in foreign countries.
It contains the sort of details the CIA has censored from previous memoirs.įor example, Fox writes about posing as an international art dealer while living in Shanghai and seeking to infiltrate nuclear weapons procurement networks in Europe and the Middle East. Paul Bogaards, a spokesman for Knopf Doubleday, told NBC News, "Fox has written a rich and resonant work about the path one takes, and the duty one assumes, to live a life of service and honor to country."Īn excerpt of the book has appeared in Vogue magazine, and a review copy has circulated widely, including to NBC News. The CIA says it must complete the review before the material is "shared with publishers, blog-subscribers, a TV audience, ghost-writers, co-authors, editors, family members, assistants, representatives, or anyone else not authorized to receive or review such classified information." (Fox has given the manuscript to the agency but has not received approval for publication.) That agreement says the CIA must review anything a former officer writes about intelligence matters to insure that she is not revealing secrets or endangering lives. Some are casting doubt on the book's climactic scene, Fox's recounting of a dramatic solo meeting she says she had in Karachi, Pakistan, with al Qaeda-linked extremists.Īnd, in an extraordinary move, Fox submitted her memoir to publisher Knopf Doubleday without getting approval from the CIA's Publication Review Board, in violation of the nondisclosure agreement every agency officer signs, according to three U.S. Some former CIA officers who have learned about its contents are questioning its veracity, saying key details don't ring true.
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