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    Hidden figures

    Dec 19, 2024 2 minutes
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    Power player Kathleen Pettigrew, the senior MI6 secretary who inspired Ian Fleming's Miss Moneypenny

    DR CLAIRE HUBBARD-HALL
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    Her Secret Service: The Forgotten Women of British Intelligence

    “Our secretaries need only two things: good legs and a good upbringing,” said MI6 chief Dick White in 1956. Claire Hubbard-Hall's well-researched and eloquently written book gives the lie to

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