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# Museum Catalog Note

"Brigitte en Acción" (Brigitte in Action) by Lou Carrigan is a spy-thriller serialized in this pulp magazine. The story follows Brigitte Montfort, a CIA operative nicknamed "Baby," who receives an urgent coded message while in Miami, dispatching her immediately to Buenaventura, Colombia. Her assignment: to interrogate Igor Stravensko, a captured Soviet MVD agent, during a prisoner exchange. The CIA will trade Stravensko for their own agent James Morris, recently detained in Peru. Brigitte travels by private aircraft and meets CIA handlers in Colombia who brief her on the operation—Stravensko will arrive via helicopter from Panama that night, held temporarily aboard a fishing vessel before the maritime exchange with Soviet counterparts occurs. The narrative emphasizes the unusual civility of Cold War espionage conduct, with both sides communicating via radio to coordinate the swap's timing and location.