Martha Peterson

Martha "Marti" Peterson (née, Denny; born May 27, 1945; Martha Jane Denny), now she goes by Martha Peterson Shogi, is a former operations officer of the United States Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) as part of the Trigon mission.

Background and personal life

Peterson was born, Martha Jane Denny, on May 27, 1945, in Kansas City, Missouri, the daughter of Riley and Dorothy Denny, while she grew up in Darien, Connecticut, with her sister, Mary Alice Denny. She graduated from Darien High School in 1963. Her first week of college at Drew University is where she met her first husband, marrying him in 1969, John Peterson, from Bellingham, Massachusetts, a Green Beret and CIA Officer, who was killed in the Vietnam War due to a helicopter crash on October 19, 1972. On November 23, 1978, she married her second husband, Stephen Joseph Shogi, a State Department official, to whom she is still married, having two children, Tyler and Lora Shogi, who she told was in the CIA on March 28, 1997, when they were 17 and 15 year-old's, correspondingly. She resides in Wilmington, North Carolina with her husband.

CIA career

Peterson joined the CIA after learning Russian in 1975. She was the first female agent sent to work in the Soviet Union in Moscow, dealing with dead drops to Trigon, who was compromised while working in South America. Peterson retired from the CIA in 2003. She wrote a book about some of her experience in the CIA, entitled, The Widow Spy.