Female spies of MI6
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Female spies of MI6
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#3Wait what - seriously the head of equipment is named Q ... after the Bond Character!
I mean that's either the greatest bit of journalist pranking I have read all year or it's true and, well, a bit naff.
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#4Wait what - seriously the head of equipment is named Q ... after the Bond Character ! I mean that's either the greatest bit of journalist pranking I have read all year or it's true and, well, a bit naff.
Wasn't the Bond Q named after the real Q?
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#5> In the past, women have been overlooked, relegated to secretarial roles or, before the SIS era, deployed as “honeytraps” to ensnare or blackmail enemies
Amusing of MI6 to claim they no longer use honeytraps.
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#6> In the past, women have been overlooked, relegated to secretarial roles or, before the SIS era, deployed as “honeytraps” to ensnare or blackmail enemies Amusing of MI6 to claim they no longer use honeytraps.
They still are, but they were in the past, too.
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#7Wait what - seriously the head of equipment is named Q ... after the Bond Character ! I mean that's either the greatest bit of journalist pranking I have read all year or it's true and, well, a bit naff.
See also Q-ships, Q-cars, etc.
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#8Wait what - seriously the head of equipment is named Q ... after the Bond Character ! I mean that's either the greatest bit of journalist pranking I have read all year or it's true and, well, a bit naff.
Wasn't the Bond Q named after the real Q?
Based on this article, Bond Q came first.
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#9>> When her children were teenagers, Rebecca decided to tell them that she was a spy. “They were super sensible, and I judged the information wasn’t going to be a burden for them, that they wouldn’t tell everybody.”
Is Rebecca still working there?
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#10Wait what - seriously the head of equipment is named Q ... after the Bond Character ! I mean that's either the greatest bit of journalist pranking I have read all year or it's true and, well, a bit naff.
I think it was just short for Quartermaster so it might make sense aside from the Bond reference.