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Evening Standard
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Gavin Cordon

THE TRUTH ABOUT: Meta ramsay the spy who could have been mi6s first female c | History Defined

Baroness Ramsay of Cartvale (Chris McAndrew/UK Parliament/PA) - (PA Media)

Meta Ramsay once described the delicate art of recruiting an agent to spy for British intelligence.

As, at the time, one of the few women operatives in MI6, she had to be particularly careful, if her potential target was male, that her overtures were not mistaken for romantic advances.

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