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My Spy: Memoir of a CIA Wife

by Bina C. Kiyonaga

A marriage lived alongside the demands of covert work

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A marriage lived alongside the demands of covert work

Bina C. Kiyonaga recounts a 1947 marriage that crossed the anti-Japanese prejudice of its era: she was an Irish-Catholic woman from Baltimore, and Joe Kiyonaga a Japanese-American war hero from Hawaii. Their family life unfolded in parallel with Joe’s secret CIA work gathering intelligence and recruiting agents. Framed as a memoir, the book places espionage within the practical and personal circumstances of a household whose public appearance concealed an ongoing clandestine mission. It also foregrounds the historical pressures surrounding an interracial union in the postwar United States.

Good fit for readers who enjoy

  • Readers interested in espionage memoirs and CIA history
  • Those seeking personal accounts of postwar American family life
  • Readers interested in interracial marriage and anti-Japanese sentiment in U.S. history

Themes

EspionageMarriage and familyPostwar AmericaAnti-Japanese prejudiceSecrecy and identity

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Book overview

So begins the love story of Joe Kiyonaga, the striking Japanese-American war hero from Hawaii, and Bina Cady, the irreverent Irish-Catholic redhead from Baltimore. Similar in their convictions, different in most every other respect, the two leaped into a marriage in 1947 that defied the anti-Japanese sentiments of the day. And their unlikely union would come to include a powerful, top-secret cohort: the CIA. For while Bina, Joe, and their children played the part of a normal family, all of their activities were geared toward Joe's clandestine mission as a spy for the CIA: to gather intelligence information and recruit new agents . Full of intrigue, passion, and danger, this extraordinary memoir has all the elements of the finest fiction -- made more compelling because every word is true.

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