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Moran: 'It's a dirty business'

(CNN) – Lindsay Moran read "Harriet the Spy" as a girl and dreamed of growing up to join the CIA. After graduating from Harvard, she did just that.

http://www.cnn.com/2005/US/01/11/spy.life/

In her new book, "Blowing My Cover: My Life as a CIA Spy," Moran shows readers the real world of espionage is quite different from the Hollywood version. CNN national security correspondent David Ensor spoke with Moran about her career as a spy.

ENSOR: Tell us a little about the training.

MORAN: We jumped out of planes and drove cars real fast. … A lot of it essentially was training people to have social skills. We went down and lived at the CIA's facility, "the Farm" for several months, and we lived on this alternative reality with a fake country, a number of fake countries and fake heads of state, and we were expected to sort of embrace this alternative reality and live and breathe it as if it was true.

>>We went down and lived at the CIA's facility, "the Farm" for several months, and we lived on this alternative reality with a fake country, a number of fake countries and fake heads of state, and we were expected to sort of embrace this alternative reality and live and breathe it as if it was true.