She was "outed" by the Atlantic a while ago
"Julia Gurganus is a visiting scholar at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace. She is on sabbatical from the CIA."
Foreign Affairs "outed" her in 2018: "Julia Gurganus is a Visiting Scholar at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, on a sabbatical sponsored by the Central Intelligence Agency."
https://thefederalist.com/2025/08/28/undercover-spy-at-center-of-wsj-sob-story-is-actually-a-public-cia-russia-hoaxer/