“Bickford also remarks on female agents’ tendencies to be good at bringing together skeins of information and finding patterns, and dealing sensibly with the budget. When recruiting staff, Bickford used to look for somequirk that mightgive them an edge. ‘I hired one woman because she had spent six months working on a Chinese shrimp boat. My thought was that if she had the resilience to do that,she would be right for us.”

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