Jayne Hayden is a former operative for the Central Intelligence Agency

Central Intelligence Agency

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. She posed nude for Playboy

Playboy

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magazine after leaving the top-secret spy agency in 1996. Her photo pictoral appeared in the February 1997 edition of Playboy. To date, Hayden is the only former-CIA agent to appear naked in a men's magazine.

Before entering the CIA, Hayden earned dual bachelor's degrees in Chinese and Political Science. According to a quote in Playboy, Hayden decided to disrobe for the magazine to demonstrate that "...a woman can be professionally capable without sacrificing her sexuality."

Sources

• Playboy, February 1997.
• The Secrecy News, July 2001 http://www.fas.org/sgp/news/secrecy/2001/07/072401.html