[red-iron-pine]

if by 'client facing' you mean assassination then perhaps.

but plenty of not-men out there doing SVR work. Anna Chapman comes to mind, or the little lady who was making friends with the NRA and all of those GOP politicians...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anna_Chapman

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maria_Butina

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Illegals_Program

[jojobas]

Chapman and Butina are by no means intelligence officers, they were assets with minimal training.

I'll grant you illegals in general, those are typically married couples.