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    Barbara Colby, wife of CIA spymaster, dies

    An interesting life and I learned some stuff from the article. It seems as if she helped create legislation that offers government benefits to ex-spouses of CIA officers. (High divorce rate, to include her).

    For nearly four decades, Mrs. Colby lived the life of a CIA wife, performing what another agency spouse once described as “the traditional partnership role of ‘two employees for the price of one.’ ”


    From 1945 until their divorce in 1984, she was the wife of William E. Colby — the spy and later spymaster who, as CIA director from 1973 to 1976, revealed the assassination attempts and other clandestine activities known as the agency’s “family jewels.”


    Mrs. Colby, 94, died July 16 in Washington. The apparent cause was a heart attack, said her son Paul Colby. William Colby died in 1996 in an apparent accidental drowning in the Wicomico River in Maryland.
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    A good long life. RIP.

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