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Two married ex-spies describe life in the CIA and their lives after leaving the spying business. Excerpted from “Dayna & Robert Baer: A Husband and Wife True-Life Spy Story,” March 29, 2011.

DAYNA & ROBERT BAER, Former CIA Operatives; Authors, The Company We Keep
ROBERT ROSENTHAL, Executive Director, The Center for Investigative Reporting

ROSENTHAL: Dayna, tell us why you joined the CIA.

DAYNA: I did my undergrad at Berkeley, then I was getting a masters in social welfare at UCLA.

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I just went through on-campus recruiting. It wasn’t like they had a booth and CIA people were there recruiting; this wasn’t out in the open. But they had a little poster up somewhere, and I just sort of threw my résumé in a pile.

I didn’t read spy books when I was a kid or anything like that, but I was intrigued with the possibility of travel and something a little different from what I grew up with.

ROSENTHAL: Robert, one of the