She went to Spain during WWII as a spy for the Office of Strategic Services (a CIA forerunner) to gather information on Nazi sympathizers, including Franco. She fell in love with a Spanish count and, after the war, became a member of Spain's jet set. She carried a pearl-handled pistol in her handbag for many years. She told her husband only on the night before their wedding that she had been a US agent. He persuaded her to give up spying for good, but she later said she continued occasionally to engage in clandestine work for the CIA.
