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Stella Rimington: The real woman behind James Bond’s M

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When the British government first decided to reveal the person behind their MI5 spy agency, many were surprised to find that the person was a she, not a he. That woman was Stella Rimington, who’s become the basis of James Bond’s M — and a fiction writer in her own right.

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