The FBI has spent the last decade seeking to address its masculine culture, in part by boosting its number of female agents. Nearly a quarter of the bureau’s 13,700 agents are women, the bureau ...

Then, in March, Vera sent six female agents, including Yvonne Baesden and Violette, into enemy territory in France. Days after D-Day, she heard that Violette had been captured. Then, in revenge ...

Natalie Gore, who made history as one of the bureau’s first female agents, died Wednesday after a battle with colon cancer. Gore, 77, died at her home in Mission Hills, Calif., The San Diego ...

Suspects frequently underestimated her, allowing her to catch them off guard. “Most people back then didn’t even realize the F.B.I. had female agents,” Misko said on the Madame Policy podcast in 2022.