ArmInfo./Turan. In early May, the Central ntelligence Agency for the first time declassified some details of the working biography of the main pretender to the post of the new head of the department - Gina Haspel. She can become not only the first woman in history who headed the CIA, but also the first director of the CIA, who knows Russian well.
According to Turan, the biographical information published by the agency says that Haspel, who started her career in the CIA in 1985, worked in the European and Eurasian department in the 1990s, supervising, in particular, the Russian direction. According to the BBC, she had a "15-year secret mission in Russia." Former colleagues say that on several business trips she led operations against Russian agents," writes The Washington Post.
According to the BBC, she worked for several years in Azerbaijan. Thus, according to CBS News, in Baku, in the late 1990s, Haspel was in charge of the local CIA headquarters and was involved in a successful operation to capture two people accused of attacking US embassies in Kenya and Tanzania in 1998. Simultaneously, she was the head of the American residency in Ankara, having thoroughly studied the Turkish language.
One of the former employees of the US Embassy in Azerbaijan confirmed the fact of Haspel's work in Baku, without mentioning which position she occupied. According to unconfirmed reports, she was listed in the structure of USAID.