Discovering evidence in his files contradicting claims regarding his presence at October Surprise conspiracy meetings, she contacted former CIA analyst-turned-journalist, Frank Snepp.

Adler's work was also the subject of a chapter in Robert Parry's book, "Trick or Treason: The October Surprise Mystery" and she was interviewed by PBS' Frontline in this regard for an episode which aired in April 1992.

[16] In mid-1992, learning that the House October Surprise Task Force was investigating whether or not there actually had been an October Surprise, she contacted investigative journalist and author Steven Emerson,[17] who put her in touch with the Task Force so that she could turn over to them the seventy cartons of documents she had hauled east from Brenneke's home in Portland, Oregon, in order to write his memoirs.

[11] Adler's Brenneke experience is the first chapter in the aforementioned Trilogy - Three True Stories of Scoundrels and Schemers and its audiobook, narrated by Peter Coyote, won a gold medal in the 2024 Independent Publisher Book Awards (aka IPPY) Competition [Category #91].

[18] In 2000 and 2001, she was the researcher for journalist and author Ron Rosenbaum's articles about Yale's fabled Skull and Bones, which were published in The New York Observer.

Describing the purpose of the association, Adler was quoted as saying, "A big part of what we try to do is to dispel the misconception that intelligence work is just like what they show in James Bond movies.

[33] In June 2017 Adler received the Albert Nelson Marquis Lifetime Achievement Award [34] for "career longevity and unwavering excellence in (her) chosen field(s)".