B Y M A R I M A R McNAUGHTON worked
as a deep cover CIA
operative in Miami,
post-Cuban Missile
Crisis, in 1963 and
later she would pose
as a diplomat’s wife
in Mexico
One might think she was the quintessential girl next door,
however, the late Marge Gates was anything but.
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married
University of North Carolina
Wilmington Chancellor
Dr. James R. Leutze and
opened a new chapter of
her extraordinary life
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