CIA Divorces

Marriage counselor Elizabeth Sloan, photographed in her McLean office near the CIA, has seen more than 75 couples that included an agency employee. ”Some of the CIA officers say to their spouses, ‘You knew what this was going to be about when I signed up for the job. Why are you complaining now?’. Jahi Chikwendiu / The Washington Post

CIA Divorces: The Secrecy When Spies Split -- Washington Post

The Fredericksburg woman divorcing her husband laid out all the messy details, including the most secret of them all. Her husband, she wrote in now-sealed court documents, is a covert operations officer for the Central Intelligence Agency. His CIA job, she said, poisoned their five-year-old marriage.

“[He] used me and our daughter . . . to run cover for his undercover operations . . . I never felt safe, never knew who people were or why they were interested in us or why they were photographing us,” wrote the woman, who is in her 30s, in December. “As a result of [his] different assignments I never had a good support network of people I could trust or rely on to help out.” And, she claimed, her spy-husband had little interest in household chores. “[He] never so much as washed or folded a load of laundry, swept or mopped one floor, or changed one dirty diaper.”

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My Comment: Working for the CIA .... or for that matter any other department involved in national security .... is not for the faint of heart .... spouses included.