
Espionage history: everything you wanted to know
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Women's Role in the Modern Intelligence Service
All of the spies that we've talked about so far, they have been men. This history has certainly swayed towards towards men but there are also questions about women's involvement in spy business over history. On the top of my head, i can think of no well known spy cases older than 200 years. Women were targets, youknow, m mary, queen of scots, for instance, but not as sort of significant operatives or anything else. I think the role of women is fascinating. The modern era, you know, the last 20 years is very, very different the earlier period. But a the scholarship is beginning to change as well. And i'm proud volved with some
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