Katherine "Kate" Harper is a fictional character on the television show The West Wing. She is played by Mary McCormack. Harper is a commander in the United States Navy, and serves as the Deputy National Security Advisor (under Dr. Nancy McNally) to President Josiah Bartlet. Throughout most of season seven, Kate, rather than Nancy McNally, briefs the President and Chief of Staff on national security issues.
Kate Harper was born into a Navy family,...
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Katherine "Kate" Harper is a fictional character on the television show The West Wing. She is played by Mary McCormack. Harper is a commander in the United States Navy, and serves as the Deputy National Security Advisor (under Dr. Nancy McNally) to President Josiah Bartlet. Throughout most of season seven, Kate, rather than Nancy McNally, briefs the President and Chief of Staff on national security issues.
Kate Harper was born into a Navy family, and grew up at various naval bases in Florida, in rather poor living conditions.
She joined the Navy and claims to have one time served aboard a submarine. She was recruited into the Central Intelligence Agency. During this time, she was involved in covert operations in Iran, Cuba, Africa, Kosovo, and North Korea, which were subsequently blacked out of her official file. She also served at the US Embassy in Mongolia. In 2004 or 2005, she was assigned to the White House, to her current post as Deputy National Security Advisor.
Harper came to...
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