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Operation Mincemeat: WW2 espionage on film

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Spying and the Great Novelists of the Twenty-First Century

There is a link between the great novelists of the twentieth century and spying. I just think they are not entirely separate. The first thing that stella remington did when she stepped down as the first woman ahead of m i five, was to start writing novels. So there is is something about the exercise of the imagination in espionage that is hugely powerful and much misunderstood.

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