Aline, Countess of Romanones, discusses her book, The Well-Mannered Assassin, about a jet-setting woman enlisted as a spy by the CIA to prevent nuclear weapon plans from being acquired by terrorists. The majority of the discussion centers on the connections between Aline’s personal experience working for the OSS and later the CIA as a spy, the underworld figures she encountered, and how they formed the background to her book. In particular, Aline recounts her experience meeting a particularly charming young man, working for her husband’s insurance agency, who is later discovered to be Ilich Ramírez Sánchez, better known as “Carlos the Jackal,” a Venezuelan terrorist serving a life sentence in France for attacks that killed or injured over 100 people throughout Europe during the 1970s and early 1980s.
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