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Well, I was, I was 29 years old at the time, but I was told by everybody that I, that I looked really young.
So the idea was that I would call the FBI office and say that I was a Swarthmore college student who I was doing research on opportunities for women in the FBI and could I interview the head of the office?
And they were very nice and agreed to give me an appointment and that I had to prepare how I was going to conduct that interview to try to learn what we needed to learn about the inside of the office.
We knew that we had to disguise my appearance as much as possible.
And it was February, so I had long hippie hair at that time in my life.
So I put all my hair up inside of a winter hat and I tried to dress as a co ed and I wore glasses for the interview, which I never, I didn't wear glasses at the present time and they never noticed that I never took my gloves off the whole time I was taking notes in my notebook, but I was not nervous.
I think I transformed myself into some sort of an actress.
When Bonnie Raines was 29 years old, back in 1971, she cased an FBI building in media, Pennsylvania in order to prepare to rob it.
We were very meticulous and careful.