NEW COSTUME DIRECTOR IS FORMER SECRET AGENT

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP75-00001R000300460040-1
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: November 11, 2016
• Document Release Date: December 9, 1998
• Sequence Number: 40
• Publication Date: October 14, 1965
• Content Type: NSPR

HERALD-TRIBUNE
Sanitized -Approved For Release : CIA-RDP75-00001
(Sarasota, Florida)
October ll+, 1965
AT THE PLAYERS
New Costume Director
Is Former Secret ?Agent
Agent 005'1/2 In Action
SARASOTA,. - Miss Marjorie Lynch, costume
director for The'Players, takes costume measure-
ments for Mrs. Janice Wald. Miss Lynch was, until
last May, a government employe and working with
the OSS and CIA.
-- Espionage and spy, ri ers
are the current rage for entertainment and
The Players new costume director, Miss Mar-
jorie Lynch, is right in style.
Recently retired, Miss Lynch once worked
with the OSS and CIA.
"I guess I am sort of an Agent 0051/i or
something," laughed Miss Lynch. The 51/2 fig-
ure corresponds closely with her height. }
Miss Lynch spent 11 years with the govern-'
ment in CIA work. She was seven years in
Italy, three in Cairo and two in Ecuador.
"My working in that branch was a pure dc-
cident," claims the sparkling, dark-haired
Miss Lynch. "I took a civil service examina-
tion in Chicago and things sort of went from
(here," she explained.
There are still many parts of Miss Lynch's
work that she is not free to discuss, even
IRQHTe is retired and has been since last
May.
Miss Lynch is one of the "fun" people who,
has the sense of humor to laugh at the world
and herself.
"We are getting ready for a musical and
mw won't let me be in it. Of course, I can't
Miss Lynch recalled a time when she did get
into ? a production as part of the crowd in a
street scene. We had to wear black wigs and
1 took mine to the office. When everyone came
in the next day, there I sat, typing away with
,v new hair-do."
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"The lady down the way has wall-to-wa
carpeting but she can't take the carpet out f
a walk," she quipped.
Her dogs, one a French poodle and the oth
sort of United Nations poodle, won't stay
home when she isn't'there.
"They bark something awful and the'neig
burs might complain so I just take them wit
me. They love to sif in the car. Of sours
when they see me coming, ;they get carrie
away and I usually pretend I don't even kno
who they belong to,", a said.
News readers will recall seeing the pictur
that ran with stories about the embassy born
ing in Viet Nam.
"If you remember sag the one man w
looked so awful and being helped fro
the scene, that was obi' my former'bosse
when I was in Cairp;le had to have 1
stitches after that boni said Miss Lync
"He is a real funny e1low." He said late
after seeing the picture;" that he would have
speak to his make-up i'(because he,. thoug
he was overdoing it a bit.
What prompts the switch from CIA to co
turning for The Players in Sarasota?
"I have always loved the theater and I d
study costuming when I was in school," e
plained Miss Lynch. "Besides, it's fun."
But then, Miss Lynch could probably run
button shop in Liberia and make a "fun thin
out of it Just because that's the way she i
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