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90-year-old found to be MI5 spy

Source PA News

Updated on 30 October 2008

An innocent looking pensioner has been revealed as an MI5 agent after her death.

Elizabeth Pirie, 90, who was known by her middle name Julia, worked for MI5 for more than 20 years, the Daily Telegraph revealed in her obituary.

The typist was recruited to work undercover and became personal assistant to the general secretary of the Communist Party of Great Britain, it was reported. She resigned in the 1970s.

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