Wise Gals by Nathalia Holt

Miniseries

Miniseries

In the wake of World War II, four agents were critical in helping build a new organisation that we now know as the CIA. Adelaide Hawkins, Mary Hutchison, Eloise Page, and Elizabeth Sudmeier, called the wise gals by their male colleagues because of their sharp sense of humour and even quicker intelligence, were not the stereotypical femme fatale of spy novels. They were smart, courageous, and ground-breaking agents at the top of their class, instrumental in both developing innovative tools for intelligence gathering - and insisting (in their own unique ways) that they receive the credit and pay their expertise deserved. Through their friendship and shared sense of purpose, they rose to positions of power and were able to make real change in a traditionally male, pale, and Yale organisation.