Elizabeth Peet McIntosh

McIntosh died on June 8, 2015, in Lake Ridge, Virginia after a heart attack. She was 100 years old.

Recounting the story in 2011, she confessed to some initial guilt over the many deaths. But she quickly reconsidered, saying about the TNT, "I was just the one who handed it to the guy who did the job."

In 1958, McIntosh began working for the CIA and worked there until she retired in 1973.

After her time with the OSS, McIntosh published her memoir, Undercover Girl, in 1947. She wrote two children's books as well: Inki (later republished as Inky) and Palace Under the Sea." She also wrote Sisterhood of Spies: The Women of the OSS, first published in 1998. In 2012, McIntosh was honored as one of the Library of Virginia's "Virginia Women in History".

In January 1943, she was asked to join the Office of Strategic Services because she had become fluent in Japanese. She was then sent to India in July 1944, where her main job was to intervene in the postcard communication that troops would send home to India while stationed in Japan. She became one of the few women assigned to Morale Operations, along with future chef Julia Child who she befriended, where she created "disinformation," or fake reports, documents and postcards, which would "undermine Japanese morale."

She was the daughter of two reporters and raised in Honolulu, Hawaii. While in Hawaii, McIntosh studied and learned to speak Japanese. She attended the University of Washington and earned a degree in journalism in 1935. She married her first husband, Alexander MacDonald, in 1937. McIntosh was near the attack on Pearl Harbor while working as a correspondent for the Scripps Howard news service. She then returned to the Washington, D.C. area once World War II had begun in order to cover Eleanor Roosevelt and other government activities.

Elizabeth "Betty" Peet McIntosh (born Elizabeth Sebree Peet; March 1, 1915 – June 8, 2015) was known for her undercover work during World War II for the OSS (forerunner of the CIA).