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| birth_date = {{Birth date|1915|05|15}}
| birth_place = Toledo, Ohio
| death_date = {{Death date and age|2016|01|21|1915|05|15}}
| death_place = Alexandria, Virginia
| nationality =
| other_names = Stephanie Czech Rader
| alma_mater = Cornell University
| employer = Texas Oil Company
| occupation = Undercover intelligence agent, librarian
| organization = Office of Strategic Services, Women’s Army Corps
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Stephanie Czech Rader (May 15, 1915 – January 21, 2016)[1][2][3] was an American undercover intelligence agent.

She was born to Polish immigrants in Toledo, Ohio, and was raised only knowing the Polish language and culture. As she did not speak English well, she had some difficulties at school at first, but eventually earned a full scholarship to Cornell University where she completed a chemistry degree in 1937.[4]

Rader joined the Women’s Army Corps towards the end of World War II and was soon selected for service in the Office of Strategic Services due to her knowledge of Polish culture. She was one of two OSS agents working out of the U.S. Embassy in Warsaw and traveled the country under the guise of finding family members in the aftermath of World War II.{{citation needed|date=February 2016}}

This allowed her to acquire intelligence on Russian troop movements and socio-economic information unobtainable by Embassy officials. She was, by all definitions, a spy. She knew that if she were captured, she would disappear.[5] "They gave me a gun, but I never carried a gun ... What the heck was I gonna do with a dumb gun?", she said.[4]

Rader died in 2016 at the age of 100 in her Alexandria, Virginia, home. Only very late in her life did her friends and neighbors realize that she was one of the most successful intelligence agents of post-war Poland. In the years shortly before her death, her friends and neighbors, together with the Office of Strategic Services Society, championed on her behalf for her to be awarded the Legion of Merit. Her superior officers had recommended her for this award in 1946 but the request was turned down by the War Department for unknown reasons.[6]

References

1. ^{{cite web|url=http://alumni.cornell.giftplans.org/index.php?cID=293|title=Stephanie Czech Rader '37: A Remarkable Life, an Amazing Gift|accessdate=January 30, 2016|first=Jose|last=Beduya|website=Cornell University Alumni}}
2. ^{{Cite web|title=Stephanie Rader, undercover spy in postwar Europe, dies at 100|url=http://www.stripes.com/news/us/stephanie-rader-undercover-spy-in-postwar-europe-dies-at-100-1.390046|website=Stars and Stripes|accessdate=January 30, 2016}}
3. ^{{Cite web|title=A female spy finally gets the recognition she deserved 70 years ago|url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/a-female-spy-finally-gets-the-recognition-she-deserved-70-years-ago/2016/06/02/eb5dd046-2826-11e6-a3c4-0724e8e24f3f_story.html|website=The Washington Post|accessdate=June 2, 2016}}
4. ^{{Cite web|title=Stephanie Czech Rader, one of the most successful intelligence agents of post-WWII Poland|url=http://www.blogs.va.gov/VAntage/25435/stephanie-czech-rader-one-the-most-successful-intelligence-agents-of-post-wwii-poland|website=VAntage Point|accessdate=January 30, 2016|date=January 22, 2016|last=Hudak|first=Tim}}
5. ^{{Cite web|title=Will America's 100-Year-Old Female Spy Finally Be Recognized for the Hero She Is?|url=http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2015/12/27/will-america-s-100-year-old-female-spy-finally-be-recognized-for-the-hero-she-is.html|website=The Daily Beast|date=December 27, 2015|accessdate=January 30, 2016|first=Shane|last=Harris}}
6. ^Profile, thedailybeast.com, December 27, 2015.
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