Brigitte Momfort was the heroine of over 500 (!) espionage and adventure novels written in Brazil from 1965-1992.
Brigitte was a Pulitzer Prize winning reporter who occasionally worked as a CIA agent. She was not only a great journalist before the age of 30, but a martial artist and crack shot, the daughter of a French Resistance fighter.
Hilariously enough, there was a real conspiracy theory that her novels were themselves a CIA propaganda op, written with CIA consultation. The theory goes that the books were written to improve the view of the CIA in Latin America by featuring a sympathetic, sexy, and cool American CIA Agent hero in the best possible light. One of the biggest bits of support for this theory is that the Brigitte Monfort had uncannily accurate and detailed insights into CIA operations. Thus far, this remains just speculation and an intriguing possibility, but it wouldn’t be out of step with the CIA’s modus operandi.
