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Re: Female spies of MI6

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Wait 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?

Re: Female spies of MI6

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> 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.

Re: Female spies of MI6

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> 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.

Re: Female spies of MI6

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Wait 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.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Q-ship

Re: Female spies of MI6

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post #4

Wait 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.

Re: Female spies of MI6

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>> 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?

Re: Female spies of MI6

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Wait 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.
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