CIA agents were envious of the glamorous treatment given to the real-lief tenacious operative who tracked Osama bin Laden for the better part of a decade, it was revealed today. Hollywood starlet Jessica Chastain plays the undercover analyst known as Maya, the woman who eventually finds the location of the then al-Qaeda leader. She is portrayed in a glamorous light – with wardrobes full of designer clothes and an enviable figure. But the real-life ‘Maya’ didn’t have it as easy as the strawberry-blonde Chastain; despite being one of the key people responsible for bin Laden’s demise, Maya was passed over for a promotion.
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Upcoming film 'Zero Dark Thirty' claims that Bin Laden might not have been found if not for a young female CIA analyst
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She devoted the best part of a decade to finding the terrorist
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According to colleagues, she was one of the first to advance the theory that the key to finding Bin Laden was in Al Qaeda's courier network
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