Elizabeth Sudmeier graduated from St. Joseph Catholic School in 1929, followed by her brothers John (1933) and Richard (1934).
Elizabeth Sudmeier (right) with her parents, Jo and Ben Sudmeier, aboard the USS Constitution in the late 1950s. Her parents didn’t know about her 25 years of undercover work until a short time before she died in 1989.
Young Elizabeth Sudmeier in front of the house where she was raised, at 6th and E streets in Timber Lake. Cody and Mary Lawrence and family now live there. It was the Francis and Anna Reinbold home for many years.
When Elizabeth Sudmeier was growing up in Timber Lake, attending St. Joseph Catholic School, she had no idea she would one day become a spy for the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA). In fact, the agency did not yet exist, and she was eventually instrumental in its formation and served many years as an undercover agent in Iraq, Egypt, India, and Syria. Part of her story was told in articles in t...
