[2] McIntosh was near the attack on Pearl Harbor while working as a correspondent for the Scripps Howard news service.
[3] She then returned to the Washington, D.C. area once World War II had begun in order to cover Eleanor Roosevelt and other government activities.
[8] The agent took the dynamite aboard a train ferrying Japanese soldiers and waited for the opportune moment to toss it into the engine before jumping to safety.
"[8] McIntosh went on to work for the Joint Chiefs of Staff, Voice of America, the State Department, and the United Nations.
[clarification needed] She lived in a farmhouse outside of Leesburg, Virginia for much of the rest of her life, with her third husband, Fred McIntosh.
[9] She was the last surviving female member assigned to the Morale Operations Branch of the OSS in World War II.