CIA Agent Who Spearheaded The Hunt For Bin Laden Is Denied A Promotion

In ‘Zero Dark Thirty,’ She’s The Hero; In Real Life, CIA Agent’s Career Is More Complicated -- Washington Post

he was a real-life heroine of the CIA hunt for Osama bin Laden, a headstrong young operative whose work tracking the al-Qaeda leader serves as the dramatic core of a Hollywood film set to premiere next week.

Her CIA career has followed a more problematic script, however, since bin Laden was killed.

The operative, who remains undercover, was passed over for a promotion that many in the CIA thought would be impossible to withhold from someone who played such a key role in one of the most successful operations in agency history.

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