'The Secrets We Kept' Imagines What CIA Secretaries Knew
Novelist Lara Prescott became curious about the women who worked at CIA headquarters during the real-life mission to smuggle Dr. Zhivago into the Soviet Union during the Cold War.
Lara Prescott can trace her interest in Dr. Zhivago back to the beginning — the very beginning — of her life. She's named after one of the main characters in Boris Pasternak's novel about a doomed love affair at the time of the Russian revolution. (Prescott's mother was a huge fan of the film adaptation.)
About five years ago, Prescott found out something new about the book when her father sent her about how the CIA had used as a propaganda tool. "I had to find out everything about the mission," Prescott recalls.
