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Later still, she begins freelancing as an agent of the international espionage group S. H. I. E. L. D.

She is sent on a secret S. H. I. E. L. D.

mission to China by Nick Fury.

There, with the Avengers, she battles Col. Ling, Gen. Brushov, and her ex-husband the Red Guardian.

For a time, as historian Les Daniels noted in a contemporaneous study in 1971,